MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by computerdork | 2025-09-09 20:28:05+00:00
It's about the size and even more importantly the weight. I like small, light phones (I currently have the iphone 13 mini). I want something small that I can slip into my pocket and it's not this brick bouncing around as take a walk.

Although, I'm not a big phone user though, mainly use it when I'm outside of the house. In the house, I'll just use my laptop.
by Blahah | 2025-09-09 20:28:26+00:00
This doesn't have the juice of the actual Darwin awards. Show me the AI equivalent of the couple who had sex during a lightning storm and were struck - the woman died, the man's penis wss fused inside her, and he had to watch while a bear ate her face. Or the group who went dynamite ice fishing and their spaniel retrieved a lit stick of dynamite and hid under their truck.

Having bad security or engineering and losing a bit of money does not compare.
by nikanj | 2025-09-09 20:28:28+00:00
It's from the modern "rewrite it in Electron every 6 months" arm of Microsoft, not the "With a clever manipulation of the registers, we can eke out another 4 bytes of saved memory" arm of Microsoft. The former has been winning for years, but the latter also exists inside the company. See Raymond Chen for a classic example of the deep technical skill inside MS
by mdhb | 2025-09-09 20:28:42+00:00
This is dumb advice that doesn’t match any kind of realistic threat model. It’s like something you saw in a movie I think.

The entire modern game is very literally, don’t be interesting and don’t do weird shit that normal people wouldn’t do. It’s a needle in a haystack problem so don’t go and start creating a really weird signature of whatever it might be: behaviour, communication, RF emissions etc. The anomaly is the signature and has been for about 20 years now.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-09 20:28:55+00:00
Doesn't this go both ways? A random selection of commenters online out of hundreds of thousands of devs using LLMs reporting degraded capability based on personal perception isn't exactly statistically meaningful data.

I've seen the cycle of claims going from "10x multiplier, like a team of junior devs" to "nerfed" for so many model/tool releases at this point it's hard for me not to believe there's an element of perceptual bias going on, but how much that contributes vs real variability on the backend is impossible to know for sure.
by CM30 | 2025-09-09 20:29:26+00:00
I have to admit, I've always wondered what would happen if say, the old Twitter staff had just completely wiped the servers before they left. Would they even try to bring the site back, or just write off the whole company?

But seriously, a network effect isn't necessarily the end of the industry. Lots of sites and services make major screw ups that drive away a lot of users to an alternative in some way or another, or outcompete a huge incumbent. Like what happened with Digg and Reddit.
by kencheney | 2025-09-09 20:29:35+00:00
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by SahAssar | 2025-09-09 20:29:38+00:00
> But never ever anyone was rooted because of malware that was snuck into an official .deb package.

We got pretty close with the whole XZ thing. And people generated predictable keys due to a flaw in a debian patch to openssl.

This stuff is hard and I'm not saying that npm is doing well but seems like no large ecosystem is doing exceptionally well either.
by TomasBM | 2025-09-09 20:29:39+00:00
> There's no other relation than "causes".

Looking at their Neo4j graph, they also retain the provenance of the causal relation in "claimedIn" relations between the reified triple of each cause-effect pair. So, that's at least marginally useful for fact-checking or quality evals.

> they just take noun phrases and slap an underscore between the words and call it a concept.

Not to defend lazy approaches, but you could make this point about tokens also ("take any bunch of characters that happens often enough, and call it a token").

> It'll only work for highly specialized, unambiguous concepts

Fair point. Practically, there's not much use in this unless you really dedicate time to figure out what's meant by each concept, and prune junk. And by that time, you may as well make your own pairs.

But from a research POV, hardly anyone will go through such effort, so I still find it quite useful. Some potential questions that I could derive from this (aside from ~110 works citing it since 2020, which is not bad for KRR work):

- What is the quality of causal relations (e.g., diagnostic decision trees) in medical articles?

- How can the original scientific provenance of cause-effect pairs best be represented?

- Which extracted causes are true variables in some effect, and to what extent/direction? (i.e., an ablation study at scale, provided you can find appropriate data)
by runjake | 2025-09-09 20:29:43+00:00
1. It adds new features. Eg. see matmul and other to-be-detailed-soon features.

2. It moves some stuff from the external Neural Engine to the GPU, which substantially increases speeds for those workloads. That itself is a feature.

Will any of this really matter much to the average consumer at this point? Probably not. Not until Apple Intelligence gets off the ground.
by NotMichaelBay | 2025-09-09 20:29:44+00:00
Agreed, the Trump administration is _heavily_ leaning on this as evidence to support their argument that "Biden's economy" was a "disaster":

> Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken.

> The benchmark revisions make clear the economy President Trump inherited was even weaker than we thought.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/bls-revisions-sh...
by riku_iki | 2025-09-09 20:30:03+00:00
> And as much as people like to handwave about how mysterious the weights are we actually perfectly understand both how the weights arise and how they result in the model's outputs

we understand on this low level, but LLMs through the training converge to something larger than weights, there is a structure of these weights which emerged and allow to perform functions, and this part we do not understand, we just observe it as a black box, and experimenting on the level: we put this kind of input to black box and receive this kind of output.
by mystraline | 2025-09-09 20:30:18+00:00
Thats because Teams is just a frontend to SharePoint Online.

SPOL is even worse a tirefire than, say, even Lotus Notes. And it's in Electron on top of that, so its 10x slower than a real non-browser application.

Ive only rarely seen Microsoft put out actual good software. The last time was Windows 2000. Now, that was some quality software.
by n8cpdx | 2025-09-09 20:30:32+00:00
Edit: forgot which thread I’m on, yes the air looks much more like Pixel.

Copying pixel would have been great. They copied AND made it worse.

I wouldn’t in a million years buy a pixel, but their team deserves credit for making really beautiful hardware. IMO better than iPhone 16 Pro and MUCH better than iPhone 17 Pro.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-09 20:30:33+00:00
0.16mm is roughly the diameter of a strand of human hair. (0.1 to 0.18mm.) In a consumer product, that's basically imperceptible -- and, in all but the most precision-engineered products, it would be within standard manufacturing tolerances.

So I suppose there already is a phone with an analogous form factor.
by mothballed | 2025-09-09 20:30:39+00:00
Anything that might lead more towards decentralizing societal structure away from the state and quasi-state subsidized institutions back towards family units is considered "libertarian" on HN. Truly universal childcare "UBI" puts the power back into the hands of parents, rather than society taxing then lording over the head of parents as to which people are allowed to care for their children with it, just not funded in a libertarian manner. This is seen as a reduction in the power of the state which is a libertarian aim.

So we've come to a crossroads where something profoundly un-libertarian is viewed by the anti-libertarians as libertarian because it incidentally achieves some of its aims.
by fudged71 | 2025-09-09 20:30:47+00:00
It really does feel like there is a long term strategy with miniaturization and functional integration.

The power of a MacBook Pro in the bump of a phone, the rest is just battery, screen, antennas and heat dissipation. What other form factors are they working towards?

Software is eating hardware. I mean, who needs a phone or a laptop if they can be virtualized from a headset? Maybe the phone in the pocket becomes just a folding keyboard + battery combo.
by chasd00 | 2025-09-09 20:30:55+00:00
I agree, if you can't publish a number that's pretty accurate then you shouldn't publish anything. That's why i wasn't broken hearted when Trump fired that BLS person. If you can't even get close then someone needs to be found that can or at least has the balls to say "idk what the number is, we're not publishing without good data".
by program_whiz | 2025-09-09 20:30:58+00:00
The damages arise from the very process of stealing material for training. The justification "yes but my training didn't cause me to directly copy the works" is faulty.

I won't rehash the many arguments as to why the output is also a violation, but my point was more the absurd view that stealing and using all the data in the world isn't a problem because the output is a lossy encoding (but the explicit training objective is to reproduce the training text / image).
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-09 20:31:08+00:00
This isn't part of the current discussion, but what is the appeal of single-header libraries?

Most times they actually are a normal .c/.h combo, but the implementation was moved to the "header" file and is simply only exposed by defining some macro. When it is actually a like a single file, that can be included multiple times, there is still code in it, so it is only a header file in name.

What is the big deal in actually using the convention like it is intended to and name the file containing the code *.c ? If is intended to only be included this can be still done.

> avoiding the C standard library are regressive and obsolete

I don't understand this as well, since the one half of libc are syscall wrappers and the other half are primitives which the compiler will use to replace your hand-rolled versions anyway. But this is not harming anyone and picking a good "core" library will probably make your code more consistent and readable.
by inanutshellus | 2025-09-09 20:31:17+00:00
It's funny, because I think of emojis as entirely co-opted from the Japanese and so see the images in that context not having anything to do with LEGO or The Simpsons. The Japanese were SO COOL and ... lucky? with their extensive creativity making of the original text emojis that folk wanted to play along too... so picture emoijs came along.
by GavinAnderegg | 2025-09-09 20:31:27+00:00
Over the last few years, I've found that most sites clients want can be built with static site generators and JavaScript. PHP is also great and easily hosted! But most times when there's a sprinkling of dynamism needed, it's OK if its happens at build/run time rather than when the page is rendered on a seever. This leads to faster page load and less to worry about security-wise. No shade! I've just been finding this has lead to good outcomes for me.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-09-09 20:31:52+00:00
Far fewer potholes on that than on a typical two lane 60mph road. Not that it’s hard to spot potholes at 60mph.

Familiarity shouldn’t come into it, you should be able to see the road is clear. That road has brilliant sight lines, you can see anything larger than a rabbit from 20 seconds away, far safer Doug 69 along there than 40 along many country roads which aren’t single track, let alone doing 30 in towns.
by hbn | 2025-09-09 20:31:55+00:00
I spent the better part of a decade using exclusively Androids. I rooted, installed custom ROMs and kernels that aimed to improve battery life. Aggressively checked for apps keeping my CPU in a wakelock, restricting the bad apps. And I never had good battery life.

Eventually I bought an iPhone, and even the 12 mini with its "tiny" battery, and putting in zero effort to extend battery life, it had significantly better endurance than any Android I ever owned. And its performance didn't get choppy after the first few months of use like every Android I owned.

The iPhone is almost 20 years old and you'd figure at some point everyone would realize stats and figures and hypothetical napkin math to prove "Android rules iPhone drools" doesn't make everyone's experience using them non-existent.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-09 20:32:13+00:00
1. I can't name them, but they're in the health care industry.

2. Yeah, and all they're doing is taking badge reports. Going in for a Town Hall meeting or a team meeting meets these requirements. You're not required to be in the office a set number of hours - just be there. I've been told its a kind of reverse psychology trick. The more time you spend around your coworkers, grabbing lunch, collabing on little stuff, it will morph into a desire to want to be there more often and thus, the decision will then be yours that you want to be there - not some mandate coming from on high.

I think in a lot of ways its working. Last year, I'd go in for some tech support thing and the building was a ghost town. Barely anybody. This year? Totally different. The ramp is full, people are bustlin about, the cafeteria is packed. Its being around that atmosphere I think is what they want people to be more involved in. I've already had several team lunches on campus and instead of going home, we unpack our laptops and hammer out a few things, then head out. None of us are really there for more than a few hours, but it just feels like really productive face-time with your team.

I just think its cool how the company is just letting the employees figure out without a heavy handed approach and from what I can see, its working.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-09 20:32:37+00:00
> I know people who do that. They pay the same interest rates as if the house was in perfect shape, not higher interest rates, and they are getting loans for most (if not all) the value.

Totally different category. The people you know are not getting private loans, but regular bank loans (backed by Freddie Mac, etc). Those houses likely are regular houses banks are willing to mortgage (i.e. free of serious defects).

They are basically just buying regular houses to rent/invest. Requires a lot more money, and is a lot less lucrative.

I'm talking about houses that banks are not willing to touch in their current condition.

> If the bank forecloses on a house and their inspection decides it is in bad shape the bank will call this person first and it will never go on the market. (they have a list of people who do this work - different people specialize in different problems)

Yes - once you make connections with banks, brokers, etc, you'll get on the list of people to call first :-)

Nothing wrong with what you're saying - just a different category of RE investors. My guess is the people you're referring to aren't sending out those mailers.

> If I was to try to do the same I'd pay a higher rate, and have to put a lot of money down. However once you do it a few times the banks realizes you know how to run this type of business and so is willing to lend you money to do it. (which is to say if you want to get into it you almost have to live in the first 2-3 houses while you fix it up, but after that you can just buy something with their money to fix up)

Same idea with the category I'm talking about. It'll be hard to get the first hard money loan, but once you've successfully exited an investment this way, other private lenders are more likely to trust you and give you favorable terms.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-09-09 20:32:45+00:00
I have a similar philosophy about home automation. Every few years I geek out and set up a bunch of crap and spend a bunch of money and waste a lot of time, and then it tends to fall apart fairly quickly and I repent of everything...

...except for the motion-activated lighting in our foyer and laundry room. $15, 15 minutes to install, no additional charges, no external services, no security issues, and just works year after year with 100% reliability.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-09 20:32:45+00:00
As the developer in charge of looking at security alerts for this code base, I already am responsible, which is why I submitted the exemption request in the first place. As it is, this alert has been active for months and no one from security has asked about the alert, just my exemption request, so clearly the actual fix (disregarding or code changes) are less important than the process and alert itself.

So the solution to an illogical, kafkaesque security process is to bypass the process entirely via authority?

You are making my argument for me.

This is exactly why people don’t take security processes seriously, and fight efforts to add more security processes.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 20:32:48+00:00
These are polls asking who people would vote for tomorrow. They're usually pretty accurate. Maybe it's comforting to think that all those people would "really" unite behind a single party to keep Reform out, but there's no sign of that today. It's a wish, not the current situation.

> the Labour Party demonstrating, or at least claiming, that it does not want unlimited mass immigration

Yes, they lie about it because they know it's incredibly unpopular. And then they refuse to do anything that'd actually solve it. That's what non-centrist parties look like. A centrist party would be panicking over their immense unpopularity and trying to actually stake out the center ground with real policy movement.

Your list of links is a good example of my point. In turn:

- Publishing a white paper.

- "Vowing to take tougher action".

- An announcement that didn't have any effect on the ground (there is no one-in-one-out happening in reality).

- A commitment to spend more money! This is at least a believable commitment from them. It's been tried many times before and doesn't work. They know this already.

- An announcement to look at something.

Announcements that they will study the possibility of taking action, one day, possibly, is what it looks like when a government likes a situation the voters don't. Here are some things you didn't include which show their actual position:

- Arguing before the court that the rights of migrants take precedence over the rights of native Brits.

- Saying "of course we do" when an interviewer asks a minister if they really believe that.
by hardwaregeek | 2025-09-09 20:33:08+00:00
Yeah it’s tricky because there’s often a senior/junior dynamic here. Junior people really do benefit from structure and in person mentorship. They also tend to have worse home office setups and more free time. Whereas senior people tend to have families and nicer home offices, so understandably they don’t want to commute in. I’m sympathetic to both and realistically I don’t think management is acting in good faith. But I do think remote work benefits seniors at the cost of juniors
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 20:33:13+00:00
That depends - if you are good at timing the market you would sell your stocks at the peak, put it into cash for a year or two and then buy long term low risk, high interest rates bonds that cannot be called... Too bad I don't know anyone who can time the market. (I'm not confident that stocks will start falling before the bond rate peaks, even though that is my guess).

My guess is that real estate will not do well in general. However there are always exceptions, but I don't know if the exception is in Dallas Texas (random big city), or Chaseley North Dakota (random place not even a town, cannot support even one store)
by booleanbetrayal | 2025-09-09 20:35:14+00:00
This in a nutshell.

I think the long and the short of it (place your bets) is that it could be perceived that Apple has lost its foothold on this ever-important (tm) share of the AI marketplace, whereas Google is happily integrating Gemini into all of its services, in a way that is actually functional / useful, with the most obvious entry point being its own Pixel hardware. They just dodged a regulatory bullet, partly due to AI competitiveness, but maybe they're not going to be on the whipping end of that sea change, after all ...
by jameshart | 2025-09-09 20:35:20+00:00
Well now you’re bringing white supremacy into a conversation that is more about white defaultism.

Nobody is saying that yellow emoji are white supremacist propaganda.

The point is that white people (and yes East Asians too) are more readily able to identify with a yellow smiley face than black or other dark skinned people are. And when dark skinned people choose to use skin tone emoji for themselves it is just a bit kind of weird (just weird; not racist, not white supremacist) for white people to carry on using the yellow version.

And then it’s especially weird to continue to insist that it’s racially neutral in the face of the evidence that it really isn’t.
by maxglute | 2025-09-09 20:35:24+00:00
Once you start rocking case accessories, profile of phones can definitely get thinner, i.e. phone loops, those suction cups. I'm fine with going thinner with the trend and I think we're going to get some pretty slick phone cases/accessories that makes actual thinner flusher carrying profile.

At the end of the day, I want future phones to be a A4 piece of paper that I can fold up like ... a piece of paper. If it means dumping stupid billions to shave sub millimeters of generations... then I guess that's the price to pay.
by lazide | 2025-09-09 20:35:34+00:00
Places that people want to live. Which are often aspirational. Plenty of people live in places that would be 2nd, 5th, or even 10th on their list if money were not a concern, eh? And that’s normal. And almost everyone could live in those out of the way places too.

Which is why comparing against the rest of the country is valid. Just like comparing SF to Vacaville. Or South SF. Or Oakland.

There are definitely parts of Paris that your typical Parisian (or even atypical French citizen!) cannot afford to live, yes? And many, many live in Paris’s equivalent to Oakland. (Or NYC’s Harlem)

It could be better - but people also have this weird mental block where the only place they ‘can live’ is also the same place everyone else wants too, but they can’t afford it, and somehow it is everyone else’s problem to fix that for them.
by vostrocity | 2025-09-09 20:35:51+00:00
There was only one such feature that caught my eye.

The new front camera sensor is now square. If you have more people in your selfie, the software will detect this and pick a wider aspect ratio for the cropped shot.

Not sure if Android has already been doing this, but this seems like a clever way to use the new hardware.

38:27 in the Apple Event video (https://www.apple.com/apple-events/).