MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nananana9 | 2025-09-10 05:16:44+00:00
But you have to

1. stop the program 2. edit it to add the new log 3. rebuild the program 4. run it 5. get the program to the same state to trigger the log

3. can take quite a while on some projects, and 5. can take quite a while too for long-running programs.

And then you see the result of what you printed, figure out you need something else as well, and repeat. Instead you can just trigger a breakpoint and inspect the entire program's state.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-09-10 05:16:53+00:00
Yeah, that would do it. Actually though it's important to remember that 'dollars' and 'currency' are two related but very different things. :-) I'm gonna guess you already know that too.

The Trillion Dollar Coin[1] was a real thing oddly. And I have always wondered if was the inspiration for Sam Bankman-frieid's crypto scam with FTX to mint your own crypto token that you could claim was worth billions so that your ledgers added up "in theory."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
by goku12 | 2025-09-10 05:17:26+00:00
> Trump supporters were warned before the election but they chose to damage America - twice by now.

You speak as if they're all having second thoughts. There still are many who think that Trump is doing great with his trade wars, crackdown on education, research and immigration, ad-hoc martial law, etc. These people wanted exactly what Trump is doing now. Destruction was their intended outcome.
by bawolff | 2025-09-10 05:17:35+00:00
I think if anyone disrupts it, its going to be over money.

Either reducing the number of ads (they really have increased quite a lot) or give a bigger piece of the advert pie to creators.

The problem is that if youtube is ever threatened its trivial for them to do both those things, and they can almost certainly outlast any up and coming competitor in a price war.
by neilv | 2025-09-10 05:17:41+00:00
> This is critical infrastructure, and it gets compromised way too often.

Most times that I go to use some JS, Python, or (sometimes) Rust framework, I get a sinking feeling, as I see a huge list of dependencies scroll by.

I know that it's a big pile of security vulnerabilities and supply-chain attack risk.

Web development documentation that doesn't start with `npm install` seems rare now.

Then there's the 'open source' mobile app frameworks that push you to use the framework on your workstation with some vendor's Web platform tightly in the loop, which all your code flows through.

Children, who don't know how things work, will push any button. But experienced software engineers should understand the technology, the business context, and the real-world threats context, and at least have an uneasy, disapproving feeling every time they work on code like this.

And in some cases -- maybe in all cases that aren't a fly-by-night, or an investment scam, or a hobby project on scratch equipment -- software engineers should consider pushing back against engaging in irresponsible practices that they know will probably result in compromise.
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by cyberax | 2025-09-10 05:18:03+00:00
> At least near me the biggest problems facing the "urban" district compared to suburban ones is declining student populations as long time homeowners age in place and the maintenance costs of 100 year old buildings compared to 10-20 year old ones in the suburbs

The building maintenance is a red herring. I believe in my district, it's about 10% of the budget on average.
by tayo42 | 2025-09-10 05:18:41+00:00
>studies show employees are willing to take a hit to bonuses, pay and promotions to keep that perk.

That doesn't seem surprising for software. If I can make 300k remote or 400k in the office, that 100k tbh has dimishing returns on my life satisfaction. And 300k total comp is a ton off money in the first place.
by hulitu | 2025-09-10 05:19:45+00:00
> 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.

They have been told since 10 years that phones are "computers" [1]. Some even believe this.

[1] from this point of view, a washing machine or a fridge are also "computers".
Show HN: Nixite – automatically install all your Linux software unattendedly
by aspizu | 2025-09-10 05:20:02+00:00
Nixite generates a bash script to automatically install all your Linux software unattendedly. Nixite prevents prompts and picks the best installation method. Nixite supports Ubuntu-based systems and Arch-based systems. Nixite installs a nixite-updater script to update all package managers and software at once.
by 0xblinq | 2025-09-10 05:20:32+00:00
+1 for this stack.

Adonis + Inertia works wonderfully well. It's the best of both worlds. And the simplicity of this architecture is something to admire. It's very easy to know what's going on at every point: It's just requests, responses, middlewares and routes/views. Simple and easy, while still super powerful.
by challenger-derp | 2025-09-10 05:20:34+00:00
> (I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses)

I thought I had it lucky with my measly 25GB of lifetime storage. Have been using Dropbox for free for well over a decade – I would pay but their entry level plan far exceeds what I need.
by halper | 2025-09-10 05:21:49+00:00
I find myself using the phone on the desk, placed between my keyboard and monitor. I do this because I find having stuff in pockets less comfortable than not, so I put things on my desk. I sometimes want to communicate with my wife about domestic logistics and prefer typing short replies without lifting the phone every time. My work laptop is not logged into my iCloud account, so cannot reply there. Happens a few times a week.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-10 05:22:03+00:00
Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_above,_so_below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_Pearls_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
by acherion | 2025-09-10 05:23:16+00:00
A pretty interesting proposition if you are into cinematography with your mirrorless cameras.

According to Nikon, the takeaway key specs are:

- The full-frame ZR can record up to 6K/60p (59.94p) 12-bit RAW video and incorporates the new R3D NE RAW video file format with RED color science based on RED’s popular R3D RAW codec. It uses Log3G10 and REDWideGamutRGB, the same color space and log curve found in RED cameras.

- Multiple internal RAW formats with high dynamic range: Choose RED’s R3D NE with 15+ stops of dynamic range, or Nikon’s N-RAW, or Apple ProRes RAW HQ.

- The impressively huge 4", DCI-P3 touchscreen LCD is bright enough to be used even in direct sunlight.

- World’s first 32-bit float audio from built-in and external microphones.

- OZO directional audio with 5 pick-up patterns.

- Up to 7.5 stops of built-in image stabilization.

- Straight Out of camera Cinematic Video Mode preset gives RED-curated color for expressive, filmic color and tone.

- Stunning autofocus with Nikon’s deep learning-based AI technology: Smart detection of nine object types, including people and vehicles.

- Fan-less, durable body: Heat-dissipating structure with lightweight magnesium alloy, offering the same dust- and drip-resistance as the Z6III.

- On-screen LUT previews, stores up to 10 LUTs.

- New digital accessory shoe.

- Price -$2199.95 SRP (body), available late October.
by zkmon | 2025-09-10 05:23:35+00:00
I don't see what's new here. This trend is not unexpected with our goals as a society. The overall goals are in the other direction. We don't want to work hard or think hard. That's precisely what is driving tech, business and lifestyle here. We have outsourced all of our hard work and hard thinking to machines and cheaper workforce elsewhere. For some reason, it seems to work fine. With all the dumbness and weakness, we still seem to be doing well as a country. So, why the concern?

Oh, you say that, we are losing some human abilities. Well, Prosperity and easy food removes the need for abilities or hunting. It is all cyclic. Each cycle is a few generations long.
by monkeywork | 2025-09-10 05:23:52+00:00
depends which camp of apple watch (or smart watch in general) users you are asking.

the camp that sees the smartwatch as an accessory to their smartphone that does fitness tracking and maybe a few other useful things to avoid pulling their phone out constantly - those people want MUCH longer battery life.

the camp that sees the smartwatch as a REPLACEMENT to their smartphone, they are perfectly fine with the current battery life.
by creer | 2025-09-10 05:25:03+00:00
Absolutely, and yes on the Macbook Air! Although the Honor phone mentioned elsewhere calls itself "thinnest at 8.8mm", +/- camera mesa, etc... So at best 8.8mm folded in pocket for a complete phone. Much thicker that an iPhone Air complete phone (and more screen space).

But mostly one thing that's difficult for us to evaluate is whether this is "at scale and profitably". On the competitors' side anyway. The Honor seems to be a $2000 phone (higher even than Google's foldable!) - probably before tariffs, not clear. How many will sell? What margin will Honor make on this? Hard to tell although it would be possible to dig the historical numbers.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-10 05:25:03+00:00
>> elevated inflation levels were transitory in 2021But… > that was correct?

No, it wasn't correct. By "transitory" the Fed meant "no need to do anything, inflation will go down on its own". It didn't go down on it's own, and the Fed had to act, too little too late, which is now causing prolonged inflation problems.

> It went up, then back down, due to a very unusual (almost unique, thus far) external cause.

The cause wasn't external, neither unusual nor unique, it was the Fed's start of interest rate increases, precisely at the time the inflation trend reversed.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-10 05:26:00+00:00
>What would have to change for you to consider it a country?

For one, having the leader be actually elected by the people and not second hand appointed by corruptible politicians.

And that would never work because then voters would just choose a candidate on the criteria of being of the same nationality as them, rather than on policies, which highlights the EU's biggest fault: the massive cultural divide, and people don't like being ruled by someone who isn't of their own culture because then they can't empathize with them, which is 100% valid point, as what would a German royal like Ursula who grew up in UK boarding schools with private security, understand about the life that someone in Greece, Romania or Bulgaria have when she makes deals and policies that negativity affect the least fortunate, like on energy?

And for two, a mandatory common language. Because over 70% of Airbus Jobs at Toulouse HQ are in French. Same for other companies and countries. So in theory you have job mobility, but in practice it's highly limited if you don't speak the local language.

>there has been talk of a European Army.

Since when do talks equal anything in reality? What can I do with talks? Can I spend them? If politicians' talks were cookies I'd have died of diabetes 500x by now.

There will be no EU army since, just like my previous point, not only do citizens of France won't want to be controlled by a German general, and vice versa, but also all EU countries have their own different geopolitical interests, often in conflict with other members.

So we'll just have mutual defense agreements whose practical enforcement will always be questionable when shit actually hits the fan, because it's easy for politicians to write mutual defense cheques, but when they have to ask their citizens to go die in another country especially a country they don't have cultural ties or fondness towards, those cheques become very hard to cash.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-10 05:26:04+00:00
2 and 3 aren't real. Nobody gives a damn about their shareholders other investments, and no one company has the numbers to save them anyway. And nobody is dumb enough to do RTO as a layoff proxy because anybody with a brain knows you're going to lose the people with options, who are exactly the people you don't want to lose.

1 is spot on.
by tombert | 2025-09-10 05:26:27+00:00
I am very much against the defunding of the NIH and CDC and I think RFK Jr is a very dumb person who is the worst person on earth to put in a position like that.

That said, fortunately the US is not the only place on earth that smart people can work on medicine. It’s frustrating to me as an American to see the republicans so ecstatic to force a brain drain, but these researchers didn’t suddenly lose their knowledge, they’ll likely just move somewhere else and this research can keep going.
by ropable | 2025-09-10 05:27:03+00:00
> And your farmland is not only cheaper, but it’s more productive.

It's almost as though comparative advantage is a real thing, and nations can be better off overall through specialisation and open trade.

> You can probably afford to buy land because you’re not spending all your money on outrageous insurance premiums, or out-of-pocket cost from going to the doctor.

But: isn't he paying for all that in his taxes instead of directly?
by wiml | 2025-09-10 05:27:35+00:00
Reminds me of the hoops the Vera Rubin Telescope has to jump through to release imagery, submitting each image to the NSA for possible embargo:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301224
by fogzen | 2025-09-10 05:28:21+00:00
Great point. MS employee productivity as measured has improved. But who cares about facts anymore.

This drove me nuts during all the hullabaloo about DOGE. People would confidently state that the Federal government is inefficient – while data showed the opposite! Federal workforce has remained largely the same since 1950, while administering more services, for more people, with a much larger budget. As measured, the government workforce is more productive than ever.
by Tagbert | 2025-09-10 05:28:53+00:00
If you check the actual specs, the Air’s battery life is the same 27 hours as the 16Pro. That’s pretty good for such a thin device. Obviously 27 hours is an optimistic estimate but to match the 16Pro means that the Air battery isn’t actually bad.

They likely offer the battery pack to make people feel more comfortable who don’t ready the specs but just make an assumption based on looks.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 05:29:26+00:00
It's pretty funny to watch e.g. some little FOSS console game system emulator—an actual toy, or at least, a project in service of a toy and of game-playing, to a large extent, but also technically more challenging than a lot of corporate work—or maybe some FOSS MMO server re-implementation coordinate development across continents with nothing but IRC, email, and Github (if that, LOL) and do it efficiently with little friction and volunteers working in their spare time and zero people with a dedicated "project manager" title, while companies pretend they need this whole fucking edifice of communication systems and people sitting in cubicles in particular places just to shuffle a few gigabytes of spreadsheet data around with Python or whatever.

Yeah. No you don't. You're, somehow, a fraction as competent and professional as some teens and 20-somethings making toys in their spare time, if you do. Definitely deserve seven-plus figure salaries for that.
by adrr | 2025-09-10 05:29:36+00:00
My oldest has done both common core math(kinder and 1st grade) and Singapore math(2nd through 5th). Both emphasize understanding over procedure and repetition. I do think in the long run it's more valuable since she has an understanding of concepts instead of just having things memorized. She never really her learned her multiplication tables as it was never required, her homework is real world word problems that challenge even me. I think it's much more valuable than rote memorization that traditional math education focused on. It's just a lot of work from both the teacher and the student. That's the challenge teaching these types of math educations over traditional math.
by monkeyelite | 2025-09-10 05:29:56+00:00
> You said because it is a proxy for local people's moral systems.

Yes. Does your business have people who second guess local laws and customs according to their higher sense or morality?

> the general concept of freedom is pretty universal

No it’s not. To some freedom is doing whatever you want. To some freedom is free from bad choices and unhappiness. To others, freedom is for themselves and not others.

> Secondly, ideas of western origin might well be widely supported by people anywhere.

You’re still missing where this is a responsibility for operating a business.

> Will you be entirely amoral and cooperate with any laws

That’s what businesses generally do, yes. And they use the legal system to fight laws they disagree with.
by phplovesong | 2025-09-10 05:30:49+00:00
When a phone costs north of 1000USD something is terribly wrong. 99% of "modern" phone use is basically (doom) scrolling, browsing the web, using core apps (like maps) for directions, taking pictures and finally communicating with whatsapp and making the odd/rare old school phone call.

This should not require spending 1000-1500USD on a phone.

Im doing all of the above with a iPhone SE for what i paid like 300-350USD for.

Second hand phones are even cheaper, just change the battery and you are good to go.
by starchild3001 | 2025-09-10 05:31:09+00:00
The video "How AI Datacenters Eat the World" argues that the rise of artificial intelligence has triggered a seismic shift, fundamentally reinventing the datacenter from a facility for storing data into a new type of infrastructure best described as an "AI supercomputer." Unlike traditional datacenters that must be located near population centers for low-latency services like video streaming, AI datacenters are indifferent to location because their workloads are limited by immense computational demands, not network speed. This shift is perfectly encapsulated by the video's central story of Meta demolishing a multi-million dollar, half-built traditional datacenter in Texas, only to replace it with a radically different, higher-density design capable of supporting the next generation of AI hardware.

This new breed of AI facility is defined by an unprecedented push for density and power at every level. At the component level, AI chips like Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs consume over 1,000 watts each, leading to server racks that draw over 130 kilowatts—a 30-40x increase over traditional racks. Such extreme power density has made conventional air cooling obsolete, forcing a complete industry transition to complex liquid cooling systems. This explosive growth extends to the entire facility, with new AI campuses requiring hundreds of megawatts of power, and gigawatt-scale projects already underway. Unlike the fluctuating usage of traditional datacenters, these AI supercomputers run at near-maximum capacity 24/7, placing a constant, massive strain on energy grids.

The consequence of this technological revolution is a global "arms race" for energy, driven by the belief that achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a multi-trillion-dollar prize. Hyperscalers are no longer just tech companies; they are becoming major energy players. The video highlights stunning examples, such as Microsoft restarting the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor and Amazon building next to another nuclear plant to secure power. With individual AI campuses planned to consume as much electricity as entire industrialized nations, the video concludes that the insatiable appetite of AI is setting it on a trajectory to become the world's single largest consumer of power, quite literally beginning to "eat the world."
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-10 05:31:47+00:00
From what I gather he was “doing very important business things”. Like I said, I don’t know if the moral here is that everyday people now have access to technology that before required massive investment in learning programming so we should expect amazing things or if the moral of the story is that a ton of people are going to get scammed or if it is that we are going to see the same thing happen to our industry as what happened to journalism when social media became a thing.