MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by axegon_ | 2025-09-11 14:44:42+00:00
The waiting time is horrendous though. Mine arrived 8 months after I purchased it but beyond that, those are absolutely great. I stopped carrying a laptop in my backpack, just one of those with an additional expansion board and an HDMI port. My work involves a ton of data which I can't fit into memory so in all cases, my computer is just a terminal to a large server somewhere. So Clockwork ticks all the boxes for me. The one thing I wish they had thought about is an easy access to the CM and be able to swap them for different use cases: when I want to preserve battery and speed is not a big deal - cm5. When I want some additional power - pull out the cm4 and toss in a 5 instead.
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-11 14:45:13+00:00
I'm not belittling it, in fact I pointed to place where they work well. I just don't see how in this case it adds much over the other products I mentioned that in some cases offer similar layering with a different UX. It still doesn't really do anything to help with style cohesion across assets or the nondeterminism issues.
by eclarkso | 2025-09-11 14:46:30+00:00
From https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2024-suppl... :

Suppose that you have an emergency expense that costs $400. Based on your current financial situation, how would you pay for this expense? If you would use more than one method to cover this expense, please select all that apply. a. Put it on my credit card and pay it off in full at the next statement b. Put it on my credit card and pay it off over time c. With the money currently in my checking/savings account or with cash d. Using money from a bank loan or line of credit e. By borrowing from a friend or family member f. Using a payday loan, deposit advance, or overdraft g. By selling something h. I wouldn’t be able to pay for the expense right now

A and c count as "cash or cash equivalents".
by Woodi | 2025-09-11 14:47:12+00:00
This. Still it's not that simple anymore...

> 1. Lose all the allies, become isolated.

UK will stay. And 50%+ of Poles, maybe more. Also this time Sounth America won't allow isolation - a) they think promises from China are worth something; b) they may have hopes of looting richer lands, russian-wave style, streaight into bullet streams...

> 2. Allies are less powerful, the world starts another world war

Read: Germans explode again... And just looks like their rulers are owned by external enemies working on exactly that - in what other country womans can be mass ripped by some new arrivals ?? And gov just do censorship... Look like society preparation for unrest...

> 3. Get sneakily attacked

And make some dead americans by attacking something stupid ? Becose stories are important for top star generals...

Also "spinners" already started to be distibuted country wide...

And when Germans attacked Poland in '39 they had lists of "intelligence" - like teachers and priests and now we have social media...

> 4. Win the war by entering when everyone is already spent out after fighting for several years.

Only if US will NOT be attacked at the start...

> 5. Everyone likes USA because they helped.

Certainly not loosing side :)

> 6. Profit.

Yeah. If only US will be on winners side and not in bigger isolation.

But times changed. Nukes. Balistic missiles. Baloons with viruses. Rare earth metals are basic need. Termovision cameras on the ground and satelites (at least in first stage). Mr. Musk saying: Anywhere on Earth, 40 minutes, 9 million :)

And nukes again. Pretty much exclude all owners from bigger conflict...

And history learned - maybe official WW3 part will not pour out of Europe this time. But in this case it won't be a "world" war. Or maybe "war" will be somewhere else...
by flir | 2025-09-11 14:47:16+00:00
No disrespect intended, but "it's still technically possible" doesn't matter. We, as enigneers, tend to think in absolutes (after all, something either works or it doesn't). Politicians are perfectly happy with a law that is only 80% effective - they would argue that sometimes people break laws against murder, but that doesn't mean laws against murder should be thrown on the scrapheap.

Most people obey the law most of the time. Doing a technical end-run around the law (a) leaves you with very few people to talk to (b) makes you stick out like a sore thumb, at which point you're vulnerable to the $5 wrench.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-11 14:47:23+00:00
There's actually a case to be made that black Americans would have been freed sooner if the Colonies had never won the Revolutionary War, since Britain ended up outlawing slavery before the US did.

(... but that's historical fiction speculation; there's also a case to be made that but for the pressure put upon Britain by the colonies slipping through her fingers, she'd have insufficient pressure put upon her to outlaw it... Especially if she had one of her largest colonies declaring loudly that a full have of its economy necessitated the practice).
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-11 14:47:35+00:00
Do we have evidence that it stopped? Or just that we don’t know where to look and what to look for?

But even if it did, one clear argument could be that the conditions on Earth when it happened would have been very very different than the earth today. Lots more volcanic activity, lightning storms, and UV radiation. We don’t know the exact conditions needed to create life from inorganic precursors so we don’t have a solid hypothesis of was there multiple origins or a single or is it still happening today.

But given we have the beginnings of evidence of life on Mars, Titan, and Triton, and that it would make sense since we know life must arise naturally out of non-life origins (since there was no life at the Big Bang), I would venture to guess that life is both rare and common. Intelligent life also seems common although less common than life overall (other primates, dolphins, Elephants, ravens/crows, and cephalopods are all quite intelligent). Intelligence + tool use is also not uncommon but rarer (we’ve caught animals on tape using tools). Advanced industrial civilization is the only thing so far that we only have a single existence evidence for - is that unique, can there ever only be one on a planet at a time, or can there only be one ever when conditions are right? Eg we wouldn’t have gotten very far if we were on the planet earlier and didn’t have dinosaur bones to power our industry with - the jump from whale oil to nuclear/photovoltaics/wind turbines seems unlikely but maybe it would happen anyway, just longer.
by ath3nd | 2025-09-11 14:47:55+00:00
We ban Russian athletes because Russia is waging a war on Ukraine and the Russian head of state is a wanted war criminal.

Israel should be double banned then because they are doing a proven genocide on the Palestinian population and their head of state is also a wanted war criminal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

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

It's like inviting Hitler supporters to a garden party.

> For instance, nobody would ban a US pop star from an international event just because many disagree with the current policies of the US government.

If and while the US conduct a new genocide on a population (their previous one to the native American population is too far in history to judge the current US populace), I hope we don't invite their pop stars to sing for us.
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-11 14:47:58+00:00
If it weren't so detrimental to his learning, we probably would have not pushed so hard. The good news is that it was his last year of primary school when this was a problem. The next year was junior high and he had 6 different teachers.

5 of these teachers had zero issues keeping him off of the device (now an iPad). The sixth was (from what we could tell) just not particularly gifted at classroom management in general. Anyway missing out on some unknown fraction of 1/6th of his education was much less of an issue than missing out on 90% of the classroom time (thankfully there were no chromebooks in PE or Music class yet; surely they'll find a way to do that too at some point).
by ksec | 2025-09-11 14:48:10+00:00
It seems strange no one is giving any credit to 17, when it is one of the best value iPhone Apple has to offer for quite some time.

It is either equal to or better than iPhone 16 Pro. A year ago iPhone 16 Pro 256Gb would be $1099, iPhone 17 256GB today is $799, with a better SoC, better WiFi, same display and ProMotion, better screen protective layer. The only thing worst is the lack of Telephoto camera.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-11 14:48:23+00:00
You cannot reduce rent period. Inflation is permanent typically, you can slow the rate of increase but prices don’t go back. Even massive building projects like the yimby’s lobby for can’t move the needle on housing costs according to economists who study the issue.

If you are a renter in Silicon Valley you are absolutely competing with non-citizens who are paying 3k for 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. That’s why so many locals who were born there are now homeless or have had to leave. I can tell you the streets and neighborhoods where it’s almost 100% new (non-legal and low skill) residents. The rents in those neighborhoods are very much in the 2000-3000 range. Section is likely a factor but I don’t know that non-fully legal residents get section 8. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
by ironman1478 | 2025-09-11 14:48:57+00:00
Multiple family members of mine were killed and jailed by the Romanian government during that time. The damage the government creates can be felt in the people who survived it to this day. Their lives were miserable. Please have grace when talking about what people endured and the choices they had to make.

Also, please read more history. The world was always awful for most people.
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-11 14:49:11+00:00
If this white Canadian woman traveling to California can be jailed for two weeks, then it can absolutely happen to anyone: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

As a Canadian, I'm refusing to travel to the US right now, despite working remotely for a US-based company.

It's not fear mongering, it's real. But my motivation isn't even just fear; staying home or choosing to travel elsewhere (Europe, Asia, Mexico) is standing with my countrymen against a regime that doesn't respect our sovereignty or even its own laws.
by achatham | 2025-09-11 14:49:36+00:00
We use c++ modules at Waymo, inside the google monorepo. The Google toolchain team did all the hard work, but we applied it more aggressively than any team I know of. The results have been fantastic, with our largest compilation units getting a 30-40% speedup. It doesn't make a huge difference in a clean build, as that's massively distributed. But it makes an enormous difference for iterative compilation. It also has the benefit of avoiding recompilation entirely in some cases.

Every once in a while something breaks, usually around exotic use of templates. But on the whole we love it, and we'd have to do so much ongoing refactoring to keep things workable without them.

Update: I now recall those numbers are from a partial experiment, and the full deployment was even faster, but I can't recall the exact number. Maybe a 2/3 speedup?
by pona-a | 2025-09-11 14:49:36+00:00
Pegasus [0] and the like — commercial spyware updated with the latest exploit chains, developed in-house or purchased from markets like Zerodium, sold as terrorism-prevention tools to such trustworthy states as Russia, UAE, and Hungary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
by llolmen | 2025-09-11 14:50:17+00:00
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by ath3nd | 2025-09-11 14:50:24+00:00
We see an influx of green accounts like yours created literally hours ago to defend the genocide that Israel is committing and what-about it.

Israel is currently a genocider state. Nazis were a genocider state. It's as simple as that. I am sure there were and still are many nazi-apologists, you are doing the same, but for Israel. Stop the genocide.
by stillsut | 2025-09-11 14:50:41+00:00
I'm actually working on something similar to this where you can encode information into the outputs of LLM's via steganography: https://github.com/sutt/innocuous

Since I'm really looking to sample the only the top ~10 tokens, and I mostly test on CPU-based inference of 8B models, there's probably not a lot of worries getting a different order of the top tokens based on hardware implementation, but I'm still going to take a look at it eventually, and build in guard conditions against any choice that would be changed by an epsilon of precision loss.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-09-11 14:50:59+00:00
It's getting harder to get the drivers to accept rides in some situations. Recently, I watched some Uber driver accept my ride and then drag their heels to pick me up in the hope that I would cancel. They didn't like my destination.

This reminds me of the old Soviet union where the rates were fixed by some central committee. In order to get a cab to pick you up, you would hold up fingers that represented how much extra you would tip. The more fingers, the more likely the drivers would actually stop.
by micheljansen | 2025-09-11 14:51:02+00:00
Ah yes, Bending Spoons. The company known for:

* Acquiring Evernote, laying off most of its staff and raising prices.

* Acquiring WeTransfer, announcing 75% layoffs and pissing off their most loyal users by changing their T&Cs to grant themselves license to use their content for AI training purposes.

* Acquiring Filmic and laying off all their staff.

* Acquiring Komoot and laying off most of its staff.

Now would be a good time to poach some Vimeo engineers.
by aezart | 2025-09-11 14:51:12+00:00
American tipping culture has its origins in the post-Civil-War south:

> Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, formerly enslaved Black workers were often relegated to service jobs (e.g., food service workers and railroad porters). However, instead of paying Black workers any wage at all, employers suggested that guests offer Black workers a small tip for their services. Thus, the use of tipping to pay a worker’s base wage, instead of as a bonus on top of employer-paid wages, became an increasingly common practice for service sector employment. In the early 20th century, these employers, who shared a common goal of keeping labor costs down and preventing worker organizing, formed the National Restaurant Association (NRA). Over the past century, the NRA has lobbied Congress to achieve these goals, first by excluding tipped occupations from minimum wage protections entirely, and later by establishing permanent subminimum wages for tipped workers (One Fair Wage 2021).

From https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/
by dev1ycan | 2025-09-11 14:51:20+00:00
The real question to me is, why is Europe and Europeans okay with America and American software companies having access to their logs (encryption can be bypassed take whatsapp for example, do you honestly bellieve that Facebook does not have access to whatever is typed on whatsapp and/or can give it to authorities if necessary?) or discord, which if you are on mobile tells you via a title what the conversation you're having is about, is automatic message scanning not involved there? but the EU and or European countries cannot?

If we go by the idea that America should not either, then go ahead and do something about it, all this seems to me is just some weirdly motivated "activism" that may or may not be originated from the source that actually has access to said data at the moment. I am going to go with the belief that people are not naive and instead they are acting maliciously about this knowing very well that this already occurs, but only for a specific side.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-11 14:51:47+00:00
The only ways I use social media would be better served by RSS. I follow specific businesses, organizations, and people, and want to see everything they post, in chronological order. I do my best to achieve this with social media, but RSS would be better.

For news: per-topic or per-region feeds would probably help. I think AP used to have those, maybe still does.
by sandreas | 2025-09-11 14:52:18+00:00
AFAIK the Pixel devices are the only ones that reliably allow bootloader unlocking / re-locking, that is required to perform custom os installs.

There are others e.g. Motorola ones or Fairphone, that also allow this but it's a good idea to focus on a specific set of devices keeping maintenance as low as possible and security focus as high as possible.

There are alternatives like /eOS/ or CalyxOS supporting more devices and I experienced exactly this "no longer supported" issue with my Xiaomi A2, which suddenly disappeared from the list of supported devices (see https://calyxos.org/news/2021/03/29/mi-a2-ten-firmware/).
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by llolmen | 2025-09-11 14:52:21+00:00
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$5449/month for unlimited work requests, one at a time, cancel anytime.

I think that's a fair price to start with first clients and lock a sweet deal.

This subscription covers any work needed to be done in AWS or DevOps-related things, IaC, etc., we can talk it through.

If you need this or some of your friends, please connect them with me

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by bccdee | 2025-09-11 14:52:28+00:00
Education has been under the axe for years. Declining test scores are more likely to be the product of No Child Left Behind than the iPhone.

> You keep ignoring: the basic science of creativity

"Basic science" is something of an oxymoron here. Measuring creativity is anything but basic. You're appealing to intuition—an intuition I share to some extent, but not one that we can call scientific

> The idea you can't see a relationship between three year-old impairment and teen loss of learning

I can see how there might be a relationship. There also might not be: Some kids are late bloomers, and the children in this study hadn't even gone to preschool yet.

Where's the meta-analysis finding a causal link between smartphone use and impaired cognition in teens? If you want to talk about science, you can't extrapolate things like this based on how you figure they're probably working. Science is empirical.

> Your statements are only narrative and narrow, you pretend to grasp ideas and information

You're getting awfully aggressive¹ about this. Have you considered putting your phone down?

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/15/6/98
by bebna | 2025-09-11 14:52:30+00:00
Simple, they are basically spam for this platform.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit

[...]

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by DennisL123 | 2025-09-11 14:52:50+00:00
A way to give radix sort a performance boost is to allocate uninitialized blocks of memory for each bucket that are of size n. It exploits the MMU and you don’t have to worry about managing anything related to buckets potentially overwriting. The MMU is doing all the bookkeeping for you and the OS actually allocates memory only on page access.
by Shocka1 | 2025-09-11 14:53:10+00:00
I did not check into SK, but Japan has consistently been about the same or higher with the US for many years. Even with a drop in the last year, still very similar to one another.

The purpose of my original comment was that the US dwindles Japan in firearms, but Japanese still manage to kill themselves just fine. So it's not a strong point by the parent I responded to. If Japan maintained that decrease for several more years, I think this would be worth revisiting, but for now it doesn't have much weight.
I built a site to replay every NYT Connections (with hints, just for fun)
by hikerell | 2025-09-11 14:53:14+00:00
I recently got hooked on the New York Times game Connections. It's fun, but sometimes pretty challenging — and once you finish the daily puzzle, that's it until tomorrow.

So I decided to collect all past Connections puzzles in one place, so you can play anytime you want. I also added optional hints for the tricky ones.

https://connections-hint-today.org

Would love feedback from puzzle fans here.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-11 14:53:24+00:00
> The Irish position should not be underestimated. It tends to be a bellweather for what others will align with in the future

This really overstates Ireland's position in foreign policy studies. No one at Bruegel, ECFR, Institute Montaigne, GMFUS, and the 2-3 other major EU think tanks that are the de facto voice of European policy are taking Irish policy into account. Ireland lost any chance it had of being at the table when the Eurozone crisis happened. Even Spain and Italy have barely rebuilt their credibility.

> Ireland tends to use it's soft power very effectively at the global table

How? Ireland barely comes up in most conversations aside from using IDA Ireland as a model for attracting services FDI.
by theptip | 2025-09-11 14:54:16+00:00
> it is a thoroughly settled matter that you cannot legislate away mathematics.

I don’t think this protects us. I view the “encryption is maths” position as referring to backdoor keys.

But this time they figured out client-side mandated spyware is a viable way of breaking e2e without contradicting mathematics.

I hate to get dystopian but we can all see where this is going; “Trusted Hardware” is mandated to run your Government ID app and Untrusted Hardware is illegal because it’s only for criminals and terrorists. Your Trusted Device performs client-side content scanning, it’s illegal to install an untrusted app, and all app developers are criminally liable to monitor for Harmful Content on their services.

This is what we are fighting against. They keep trying and they are getting closer to succeeding. And none of this is incompatible with mathematics; it’s a pure rubber-hose attack on the populace.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-11 14:54:17+00:00
I did not take it as criticizing, but holding it up as an example of a life well lived. TLDR "The work won't love you back, pay attention to what can be learned from Gregg's life experience he shared." Certainly, seek out meaningful work, but prioritize loving relationships over it.

> "I have been unbelievably lucky in life, and particularly in my relationship with Rebecca."

(i strongly agree with this, fwiw, based on the data collected about regrets when people approach death [1]; also, we should take the life lessons from someone who has passed as a gift, with value to help us live more full lives with the time we have left)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_Five_Regrets_of_the_Dy...
by mdaniel | 2025-09-11 14:54:23+00:00
Some of the other posts have transcriptions (e.g. https://chipsandcheese.com/i/153651942/a-introduction-to-ibm... ) so I wonder if it was just posted too early for those to be ready?

Also, that IBM Power one piqued my interest because I wondered if there was going to be any mention of the OpenPOWER project <https://git.openpower.foundation/general/openpower>, but it seems no