MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsunamifury | 2025-09-25 21:53:57+00:00
Switzerland has been such an odd place where its population enjoys an enlightened high quality life funded on the back of the world’s shadiest wealth.

And in the midst of that is down to one final bank which if it collapsed is worth something like 20x the gdp of the nation in holdings.

So maybe the Swiss are waking up to how much more delicate their situation may be.
by MoreQARespect | 2025-09-25 21:53:57+00:00
>I'm not doubting you _could_ break up any PR into a shorter one. But that's kind of the point of an expert: they recognise what makes sense to do in reality

I have seen plenty of huge PRs which were more trouble than they were worth to break up after discovery. At some point it becomes like unbaking a cake. It's a trade off.

Ive just never thought when I saw any of them that there wasnt a more practical way to get there with a bunch of smaller PRs.

Unlike dealing with an already existent large PR this isnt really a trade off thing - there are basically almost no circumstances when it is preferable to review one 1000 line code change instead of 4x self contained 200 line changes.
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 21:54:05+00:00
You're jumping to conclusions about the losses. Apple can stop selling hardware and continue selling services, which are a significant portion of margin-rich revenue.

Unless Apple devices become illegal to import or use (unlikely), the resultant gray market will starve said governments of significant yearly iPhone + case purchase VAT

Apple might lose something like 1/2 the revenue you suggest in a realistic scenario. 12% is nothing for a company like Apple who has a strong POV.
Show HN: I built a simple intermittent fasting timer app
by mcnx097 | 2025-09-25 21:54:29+00:00
I started intermittent fasting recently and I looked for mobile apps to keep track of my progress. Most of the mobile apps are bloated with so many features + paywall

So I decided to build my own with minimal features

- No Paywall - Data stored in device itself - Clean and Minimal UI - PWA support - Notifications (Beta)

Please try yourself and let me know the feedback
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-25 21:54:29+00:00
Related:

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299170

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45325792

I'm leaving Ruby Central

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352432

Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371061
by sdsd | 2025-09-25 21:54:32+00:00
It's mostly people just rating their own lives, which leaves it open to people in different cultures reporting the same actual happiness differently. In some cultures, saying you're happy is bragging, so people understate. In others, rating it low is complaining, so people report overly happy.

I see World Happiness Report as primarily a measure of what's considered the most socially acceptable way to discuss happiness across cultures. In the USA, people often brag about how miserable they are, for example.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-09-25 21:54:45+00:00
Good point, criminal trial process is not obviously corrupted like the pre-trial. Every day recently there's a story about trump trying to get his political enemies prosecuted, and then he fired people who investigated him from his last term.

But I should mention the bad guys are trying to get grand jury assembled that would prosecute James Comey. Does that count as 'criminal trial process'? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/us/politics/james-comey-i...

I'm not a lawyer, but this corruption will be getting worse. That distinct is relevant still but for how long?
by fragmede | 2025-09-25 21:54:57+00:00
It wouldn't do a SaaS company hockey stick growth, but one easily imagines a concierge service where theres a network of shadchante/ aka yenta that gets to know you, enters you as a person into the database, and the system figures out a good set of matches to introduce people to each other. The limitation is in measuring human beings. That makes people really uncomfortable.
by segmondy | 2025-09-25 21:55:09+00:00
Inference is often like 200-250w without card clocked down. Then the other cards are like 20w-50w. 4 cards, 1 card is active at once. To get the full 350watt, you need to run parallel inference on the card with multiple users. So if I was using it as a server card and have 10 active users/processes then I might max out the active card. For example, I have a rig with 10 MI50 cards, I believe they are 250w each. Yet I rarely see pass 200w on the active card, they idle at about 20w, so that's 180w + 200w = around 380-400w on full load.

Think of the max watt like a car's max horsepower, a car might make 350HP, it doesn't mean it stays making 350HP all day long, there's a curve to it. At the low end it might be making 170HP and you will need to floor the gas pedal to get to that 350hp. Same with these GPUs. Most people will calculate the gas mileage by finding how much gas a car consumers at it's peak and say, oh, 6mpg when it's making 350hp so with your 20gallon thank, you have a range of 120miles. Which obviously isn't true.
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-25 21:55:09+00:00
The army and national guard had started preparing during the Obama years.

[1]:https://youtu.be/JEjU-X57Wrc?t=5815

It seems sometimes that they have mapped out how things are going to play out years in advance and are ready. After all what is the American government but just a group of fellow countrymen with all the data and resources?
by andsoitis | 2025-09-25 21:55:21+00:00
> Aren't the Nordic countries listed at the top also the highest consumers of anti-depressants?

Here's a report of the countries with most antidepressant users in the world 2024 (https://ceoworld.biz/2024/05/12/revealed-countries-with-most...):

1. Iceland

2. Portugal

3. UK

4. Canada

5. Australia

6. Sweden

7. Spain

8. New Zealand

9. Chile

10. Belgium

This report lists OECD countries but excludes the US. If the US were included, the report suggests the US would be among the top (either highest or second-highest) in terms of DDD per 1,000 inhabitants.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-25 21:55:27+00:00
Our president won't condemn violence and Politicians on the right all fan the flames while holding everyone to higher standards than the president himself when it comes to violent rhetoric.

Gun violence regardless of position is still always in the news, and the party in power has no intention of doing anything about it.

The political elite actively shun science.

Tech billionaires are all licking the boot - so the hopes some had that those with money and large corporate entities would keep the government in check are long gone.

Politicians actively endanger our international relationships with the entire world. Everybody in the world looks at us like a laughing stock.

The elite actively welcome and cheer for AI taking peoples jobs.

The economy is shit meanwhile our leaders lie to our faces about how tariffs and their own economic policies work and pointing at wall street gains meanwhile the majority of Americans don't invest in the first place.

Our rights are being stripped. Military/National Guard is actively deployed in the streets in places, and there is threat of deployment in other places (hint left leaning places). Any speech not aligned with the presidents values is criticized and threatened at a national scale.

Politics is just a reality TV show made for clicks and our current leaders are basically the equivalent if children bickering. "Transparency" is completely gone - they ran on transparency and then immediately flipped, who coulda seen that coming.

There is literally nothing to be happy about here unless you're already rich.
by jonahx | 2025-09-25 21:55:32+00:00
> PR is the atomic level of work.

The atomic level of work should be a single, logically coherent change to the codebase. It's not managerial, it's explanatory.

As you work things naturally arise. Over here a reformatted file, over there comments to clarify an old function that confused you, to help the next developer who encounters it. Cleaning, preparatory refactoring that is properly viewed as a separate action, and so on. Each of these is a distinct "operation" on the codebase, and should be reviewed in isolation, as a commit.

Some of these operations have nothing to do with the new feature you're adding. And yet creating separate PRs for each of them would be onerous to your reviewers and spammy. Clean, atomic history lets you work naturally while still telling a clear story about how the code changed, both for reviewers and future developers.
by dublin | 2025-09-25 21:55:58+00:00
FYI, We just had world-class cellist Steuart Pincombe here in Austin last month performing the last three Bach cello concertos along with three matched brews from the excellent local Lazarus brewery as part of his occcasional "Bach and Beer" performances.

He's a flat amazing cellist, and watching him perform that last concerto you really realize how hard he's working to get it done - it's a workout. Anyway, it was a really good evening. (FWIW, this was part of the Arts On Alexander program this year, which is one of Austin's lesser known gems of amazing live classical music performaces.
by vkou | 2025-09-25 21:56:24+00:00
> Given the unit economics, the cost of development has no correlation with the end price consumers pay, so it's irrelevant.

It's completely relevant! It's basic accounting! Money in, money out. The money had to come from somewhere. And that somewhere was consumers.

Higher R&D expenditures can only be financed by more consumer spend.

> No significant technological change has been withheld, especially in the current world.

It's not witholding it, it's just taxing it.

(PS. A robot taking your job is worse for both other workers and the country than an immigrant taking your job. Because the immigrant pays taxes. The robot does not.)

> This is ridiculous pilpul to refuse to acknowledge that the labor market has a supply and demand, with salaries as a clearing price. Add more migrant workers, and the salary decreases at the expense of the local ones.

I'm not refusing to acknowledge it. I very much acknowledge it, in every one of my posts - more supply of labour increases productivity, and reduces consumer cost.

You, however, are refusing to acknowledge it. Because you somehow think that robots aren't flooding the market with an oversupply of labour.

Look at your nearest shipping port. A handful of dockworkers are doing the job that took thousands of hands in the past, because of automation. The same thing is happening with AI, today.
by rikafurude21 | 2025-09-25 21:56:26+00:00
I had to implement multilingual UI for my app recently and the best method I found was using an LLM API inside a script which just runs on build and anytime a new text field gets added it gets the translations and stores it in a JSON where the right strings are picked based on system language or user settings. The annoying part was adjusting the entire UI to the new 'dynamic' string selection functionality but other than that, the tokens I had generated only cost maybe a dollar. I suggest the author looks into that, because waiting for user submissions could take some time
by zawaideh | 2025-09-25 21:56:31+00:00
Every single one of these companies that have enabled the genocide should be help accountable. Maybe some are trying to claim plausible deniability.

--

For those looking for direct sources on the findings of genocide in Gaza, here are several key reports and legal conclusions from human rights organizations, international courts, and genocide scholars:

1. UN Commission of Inquiry: Concluded that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. * Report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c... * Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trUcK8hHaIA

2. Amnesty International: Concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. * Statement: https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/end-israels-genocide-aga...

3. B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories): Published their conclusion that Israel is committing genocide. * Report ("Our Genocide"): https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

4. International Court of Justice (ICJ): Ruled in January 2024 that it is plausible Israel's acts could violate the Genocide Convention. * Case Details: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

5. Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: Issued an "Active Genocide Alert" in October 2023, warning of the high risk of genocide. * Alert: https://www.lemkininstitute.com/active-genocide-alert-1/acti...

Beyond these formal reports, it's crucial to acknowledge that this has been one of the most documented atrocities in history, often livestreamed by Palestinians on the ground. Their testimonies have been consistent from the beginning, yet they are frequently dismissed until a non-Palestinian, "human" source validates their lived experience.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-25 21:56:57+00:00
No,the logical conclusion is that, on the contrary, liberal democracies end up as authoritarian legalist regimes, as they progressively need more and more laws and enforcement to catch criminals who evade them.

You can see this clearly with the constant inflation of AML laws in the EU, which become more and more restrictive and invasive each year, without any clear effect.
by viccis | 2025-09-25 21:57:30+00:00
I can’t book a table at a local restaurant without calling because their resy link is behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare has decided that my up-to-date Firefox is out of date and therefore can’t pass the challenge. In reality it’s more likely that one of my ad blockers is stopping it from doing what it wants. It doesn’t even let me hit the box.
by chaosbolt | 2025-09-25 21:57:55+00:00
It's already this dystopic, like any medium where people can talk freely gets eventually controlled by corrupt politicians etc.

Anyways, the control of speech isn't only in surveillance, it's ingrained deeply in culture, taboos, education, etc.

I have talked to religious people before, they all exhibited a certain characteristic, you could talk about somethings but you can't touch on other things, their mind won't accept it, so they bug and start saying nonsense.

I've noticed the same thing with most people when it comes to certain subjects, you'd be talking to an educated person with a relatively high IQ and a mind that is capable to think critically in certain domains, yet once you point out something their mind has been trained to deem anti cultural (like for example who controls what), they turn into Agent Smith and they stop listening to reason.

Anyways, this is HN so what I'm saying is that the control of the controllers is already absolute, it's been linearly increasing for years, they'd cause something then tighten their control of us for "our safety", until one day we get enough and some take out the guillotines and others the bald eagle etc. been happening for millenia, if we as a species were able to rebel on authority before s*it absolutely hit the fan, history would've been a lot cleaner.
by baobun | 2025-09-25 21:58:04+00:00
The real crucial missing piece in Element X compared to Element is key/device/session/verification management and insights. Fully self-managing a user account or chat sessions currently can not be done in EX. Verification ceremony becomes meaningless without the degree of control and detail which is available in Element but not Element X.

In the spreadsheet you linked I see "manually import/export E2EE keys" as missing in EX but there is way more (and IMO more significant) gaps in security-related UI than that. I believe this class of missing functionality may be a major blind spot on the EX roadmap.

"The authenticity of this message can't be guaranteed on this device"... OK, now what? In Element it's usually at least possible to understand the cause of and do something about those situations. In Element X, that notice is all you get.

Because of this it still feels like a toy beta since you basically need a second not-Element-X client running as a backup for when issues occur or you otherwise want that control or insight into your own account, sessions, and chats.

Oh, and I guess not everyone is content with Apple/Google duopoly while EX is exclusive to iOS/Android.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-25 21:58:08+00:00
Yeah. Like I said, Microsoft had the emulator. NTVDM on x64 is handled just like MIPS or Alpha, by using the SoftPC emulator. It's just a new CPU architecture.

They had a proven and tested emulator yet they chose not to build it for the new x64 CPU architecture. It turns out that it wasn't too hard to build for the new architecture either. That's the crux of my confusion.

It's not like SoftPC was new and unproven code. It doesn't feel like it would have been a major endeavor to keep supporting it.

Obviously, I don't know Microsoft's telemetry told them re: the number of 16-bit application users. I know it impacted a number of my Customers (some of whom are running DOSBox today to keep old fit-for-purpose software working) and I don't support a ton of offices or people.

It seems out of character for Microsoft to make their Customers throw away software.
by pavlov | 2025-09-25 21:58:21+00:00
Some years ago I moved back to Finland (#1) after several years in the US (now at #24).

While the quality of life really is objectively better with children, the secret to these rankings is probably the calibration inherent in the question. Finnish people just don’t have high expectations. Every positive development is a welcome surprise.

Americans are primed to want it all and seem to constantly compare themselves against unachievable standards on social media. “The American Dream” is more illusionary than ever. Everybody is a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire. This can be positive when it produces a drive that builds things, but it seems to mostly produce unhappiness right now because it’s so out of balance.
by palata | 2025-09-25 21:58:42+00:00
> Most abuse happens from people known to the child

Sure, but it means that at least some happen from people unknown to the child. If ChatControl doesn't cause any problem but helps preventing those abuses, then it's worth it. The question is: what are the problems caused by ChatControl?

Saying "only a minority of children get abused this way, so it's not worth it" won't go far, IMO. It's not a valid argument against ChatControl in itself.

> presumably the perpetrators will simply move to other ways of communicating.

The perpetrators have to contact kids over apps that the kids use. Like Snapchat or TikTok. It's not like the kids will routinely install a weird app to talk to weird people...

> parents _want_ their kids to have access to encrypted communications.

But ChatControl doesn't remove the encryption! It scans everything locally, before it gets encrypted and sent.

> by criminalizing encryption

It's not criminalizing encryption: it's forcing a local scan on your device. Just like there are already scans happening on clouds for non-E2EE data.

Don't get me wrong: I am against ChatControl. For me the problem is that I see a potential for abuse with the "list" (whether it's a list or a sum of weights) of illegal material. This list cannot be made public (because it's highly illegal material), so it's hard to audit. So whoever has control over it can abuse it, e.g. to find political opponents. That's my problem with ChatControl.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-25 21:58:45+00:00
What was it that happened between 2023 and 2024? Here's all i can think of but none of these really explain it:

* Major terrorist attack in israel; its obvious we care way too much about this random country on the other side of the planet but even so i can't see that impacting people's happiness this hard.

* general populace now knows LLMs exist and may someday potentially perform jobs which were previously thought to be immune to automation but i would expect this to be offset by the people amazed by this technology.

* It's becoming increasingly apparent that our then-current president might actually suffer from a more serious case of Alzheimer's than reagan did; simultaneously it is becoming increasingly apparent that the only viable alternative is going to be trump again.

#3 is the only one that sort-of makes sense but I have doubts that people are this invested in presidential circuses on a personal level.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 21:59:25+00:00
I'm sure the Gazan friends you spoke to will be overjoyed you had face-to-face conversations with them before going online to advocate for their genocide, and that those conversations you had make them clearly savage enough to justify said genocide.

Are you really so wrapped up in your tech bubble in Tel Aviv that you can believe that? Here's some reading on a story even I knew off from the top of my head: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-wome.... And here's the rest of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel. Israel is easily the most racist "Western" country in the world, ahead of even the modern US. Hmm, maybe a genocide against Israelis would actually be justified because Israelis are just racist savages that think black people should be forcibly sterilised against their will?
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-25 21:59:49+00:00
Don’t forget the stint living in a Namibian city full of Germans who idolized Nazi ideology and Hitler when he was a young boy, Swakopmund.

> Swakopmund was known for its continued glorification of Nazism after World War II, including the celebration of Hitler's birthday and "Heil Hitler" Nazi salutes given by residents.[13][14] In 1976, The New York Times quoted a German working in a Swakopmund hotel who described the city as "more German than Germany".[14] As of the 1980s, Nazi paraphernalia was available to buy in shops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakopmund
by pella | 2025-09-25 22:00:05+00:00
imho: not soon.

Most alternative PG storage engines have stumbled, and OrioleDB touches a lot of core surfaces. The sensible order is: first make OrioleDB rock-solid and bug-free; ( https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20s... ) then, using real-world feedback and perf data, refactor and carve out patches that are upstream-ready. That’s a big lift for both the OrioleDB team and core PG.

From what I understand, they’re aiming for a release candidate in the next ~6 months; meaningful upstreaming would come after that.

In other words: make it work --> validate the plan --> upstream the final patches.
by oasisbob | 2025-09-25 22:00:50+00:00
While arguing may not be productive, I have had good results challenging Gemini on hallucinated sources in the past. eg, "You cited RFC 1918, which is a mistake. Can you try carefully to cite a better source here?" which would get it to re-evaluate, maybe by using another tool, admit the mistake, and allow the research to continue.

With this example, several attempts resulted in the same thing: Gemini expressing a strong belief that Github has a security capability which is really doesn't have.

If someone is able to get Gemini to give an accurate answer to this with a similar question, I'd be very curious to hear what it is.
by tolerance | 2025-09-25 22:01:02+00:00
It’s hard for me not to read these “old/small web elegies” as coming from people trapped in a kind of perpetual adolescence leading them to contrive impediments to authoring a static website while grieving over a want for community.

I’m curious about the personal lives of the authors of these kinds of posts and whether there’s any shades of the film American Beauty in them.