MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdhb | 2025-09-09 20:13:32+00:00
What on earth are you talking about… that is not even a little bit true. I think you’re over complicating this in your head quite a bit.

Here’s something [1] that’s was public almost 20 years ago at this point. Things have advanced a lot since then. I don’t think you quite understand just how much of a pipeline there was for this kind of technology that went almost directly from quite classified SIGINT stuff in the GWOT to casual LEO / domestic stuff.

I know the whole no phone thing sounds like a real high speed operator move but it’s very literally a signal they go looking for when trying to sift through large amounts of data.

[1] https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_re...
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:13:36+00:00
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

(I agree about the annoyance, as most HN readers probably do, but the trouble with these complaints is they routinely get upvoted to the top of threads, where they choke out more interesting discussion.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by dzink | 2025-09-09 20:13:59+00:00
This has a couple of up sides.

1. Biggest is that Apple can finally tell if people really want a thinner phone (I don’t). Maybe once they find out the answer, they can finally start using the space more productively.

2. They mentioned local LLM in passing, but this is the biggest possible selling point of the executives actually back real work on making them consumer-level easy. Have a LLM marketplace. Let users sub-train with their own ideas and local data. Enable users to privately and safely port their personal LLMs to their next Apple. Apple has the best most efficient hardware available and they have it in millions of pockets. It’s about time they use that to become the dominant phone and personal device maker. Instead of focusing on anorexic phones.
by ramesh31 | 2025-09-09 20:14:06+00:00
>"Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras."

I have this recurring vision of what could have been if we never lost Steve before the industry went whole hog in on the camera bump fad. It goes something like this:

SCENE: Steve Jobs' office on the eve of the iPhone 7 release

"Hey Steve here's the new prototype for iPhone 7, we think you're going to love it!"

Steve picks up the phone, fumbles it around for a moment, flips it over, and runs his index finger over the camera bump

"You're fired. Now, you" points to another engineer "Get rid of the bump."

And just like that, we were saved from this nightmare. Alas, the world is shit now and no one cares about anything anymore. But I can say without question he would have never allowed it.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 20:14:31+00:00
> users don't care

From The Truth by Terry Pratchett, on a similar dilemma between pursuing the (journalistic) public-good versus satisfying the immediate desire of the average public:

> "Are you saying people aren't interested in the truth?"

> "Listen, what's true to a lot of people is that they need the money for the rent by the end of the week [...] This is a report of the annual meeting of the Ankh-Morpork Caged Birds Society [...] They've got no say in who runs the city but they can damn well see to it that cockatoos aren't lumped in with parrots. It's not their fault. It's just how things are."

> [...] "It's important! Someone has to care about the... the big truth. [...] if they don't care about anything much beyond things that go squawk in cages then one day there'll be someone in charge of this place who'll make them choke on their own budgies. You want that to happen?"

____

Our civilization is filled with uncountable things that were once "nerd fantasies" that the average person doesn't even remotely care about... Until it all goes tragically wrong.
by r0fl | 2025-09-09 20:14:42+00:00
How many people hike longer than their battery lasts?

Isn’t the phone not being used when hiking?

Are they live streaming the hike that they need such insane battery life?

I hike and bike ride with my kids very often. Other than the odd picture and video I have my phone in my pocket during those hikes. The battery barely drains
by crooked-v | 2025-09-09 20:14:50+00:00
And yet, with the Tokyo example, the combination of lots of housing and good public transit means that you can get small but liveable apartments that are a 20-minute walk from central downtown Tokyo (and under a 10-minute walk to multiple train stations with access to the rest of the metro area) for under $1500/month. Here's one right here: https://www.realestate-tokyo.com/rent/B0021114/park-flats-gi...
by program_whiz | 2025-09-09 20:14:53+00:00
It isn't about sales in the short term. Same with code. Your project might even be OSS (so not expecting profit). Its about a system that exploits that for one party's profit, while putting the other out of business. They reduced the writer's ability to ever be employed again, or to make royalties at the same level as before (not necessarily reduced the sales of existing titles, though that may occur as well).

Same with code, AI hoovering all the code doesn't mean people won't use libCurl, but it does mean jobs are disappearing and people may not be around to write the next libCurl.
by al_borland | 2025-09-09 20:14:55+00:00
Proximity to a charger isn’t the answer. I’m home all day, but I still don’t want to be monitoring battery life all day or tied to chargers. I only want to change while I sleep.

I have a 16 Pro and every so often something runs in the background that destroys my battery in half a day. I still don’t know what it is. The settings don’t make it clear.

I haven’t complained about the battery life on the Air, but I’d rather have a bigger battery to the point of eliminating the camera bump, than having a marginally thinner phone that shoves everything in a bigger relative bump.
by hollowturtle | 2025-09-09 20:15:02+00:00
It's a UI problem not an hardware one imo. Pretty much when iPhone came out UI research flattened and everything seems so standardized now, I only see gimmick stuff like liquid glass. For example, I don't see why a submit button cannot float near the thumb on the right or left side of the bottom of the device(could predict by checking device orientation)
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-09 20:15:08+00:00
> This is, at least in part, a UX problem.

Right, but that's the entire point: Mastodon's UX problems are caused by its decentralization and mostly cannot be separated from it. Arguably all the problems of decentralization that make users disprefer it are UX problems-- that doesn't mean they are easy to solve.
by wcarss | 2025-09-09 20:15:31+00:00
TOPEKA, WA - Elderly man considering strongly worded letter to editor about armed intruder ransacking his home "optimistic" about potential for public response. "I think it could really get an important discussion started," he was heard mumbling, under the sound of a glass display case in his living room being smashed. As heavy footsteps approached his bedroom door, he continued, "people need to learn a serious lesson about public responsibility and the rule of law." At time of printing repeated calls to the house, last seen darkened, with an open and only partially hinged door, were unanswered.
by fudged71 | 2025-09-09 20:15:50+00:00
Taking a peek at the research: “While flat-optics cameras have transitioned from theoretical concepts to high-fidelity laboratory prototypes, significant interdisciplinary R&D—spanning nanofabrication, materials science, computational imaging, and systems integration—is required to realize commercial flat camera modules for next-generation smartphones.

Recent breakthroughs have produced multilayer metalenses only ~0.5 mm thick that can focus unpolarized broadband light across several discrete wavelengths.

Dual-Pixel Coded Aperture (CADS): End-to-end learned amplitude masks on dual-pixel sensors have shown >1.5 dB PSNR gains in all-in-focus images and 5–6% depth accuracy improvements in DSLR, endoscope, and dermoscope prototypes.

Color-Coded Aperture Imaging: Single-lens, single-frame depth sensing via color-coded apertures has been demonstrated on DSLR and preliminary smartphone modules with depth map extraction sufficient for basic AR and portrait modes.”
by Computer0 | 2025-09-09 20:15:57+00:00
I visited Canada recently and it was remarkable being in a country where everyone didn't have to carry the guilt of directly funding and facilitating a genocide on their shoulders. Witnessed the aftermath of an anti-genocide activist attacked by one of the Zionist fascists though.

A state created out of a crime against humanity has become bound to repeat the same actions that necessitated its creation.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-09 20:15:59+00:00
> With most (all?) of the big companies following the same path, I think it's safe to assume the data points to the same conclusion

That is, at best, very weak evidence supporting your conclusion.

I agree, by the way, that humans do work better together. That doesn't mean, however, that humans work better in an office environment. There are huge drawbacks to that environment that may very well exceed the benefit of physical proximity.

"Humans work better together" is a very different assertion than "humans work better in offices".
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 20:16:46+00:00
Since lockdowns I think the underground only recovers around 70% of its operating costs. Maybe you have seen different figures?

The freezes eliminated investment projects needed to keep pace with population growth. There's also just big problems maintaining the stations and doing more than the bare minimum needed to keep the lights on. Travel on it and the stations are dirty, overly hot, etc.

Drivers on London's roads are very heavily taxed already, supposedly to reflect those externalities. Public transport obviously also contributes to pollution and congestion, especially when building underground lines, it's not externality-free.

I don't think TfL has a cost crisis. Crossrail overran but that was mostly due to the software complexities of the signalling tech debt around the Heathrow tunnels and other issues that can affect any kind of project. It's just hard to tell right now because they can't build at all.

The fare freeze was broken by central government briefly, but only by bribing Khan with central government money for upgrades. Exactly the outcome he wanted!
by lenkite | 2025-09-09 20:16:57+00:00
> China and India are meddling in this. Nothing in Nepali politics happens without either China or India's hands or implicit blessing

Neither China nor India have so far meddled in this. It came as as surprise to both nations.

Also, neither China nor India control Nepal's social media. You would have to look at the yanks for that.

This is Nepal's self owned problem. Corruption has got entrenched into the system and you need fresh blood and a large number of hard-working politicians to fix these issues and make the government accountable.

We had many extensive corruption protests in India before the national BJP took over 15 years ago and Modi made bureaucrats accountable. Sadly, there has been some slacking after the initial years.
by bryan_w | 2025-09-09 20:16:57+00:00
> I've never seen it suggested that the problem is that govts do not prosecute enough of what Facebook reports

How odd, I wonder if there's a reason for that.

I remember in one transparency report, FB itself sent over 12 million referrals to NCMEC, yet we don't see stories about all those being rounded up for justice

How. Odd.
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:16:59+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by stahorn | 2025-09-09 20:17:04+00:00
I've become a bit cynic, and I think it will take time until it becomes better. Eventually though, there will be large protests that turn into law that change the dynamics of the now very centralized web.

London was known for having so thick fog from burning coal, and in 1952 it was such a bad event that 4k people died and 100k got badly affected from it. It is was started the Clean Air Act of 1956, that eventually led to clean (cleaner?) air in London.

Another one is Amsterdam. It was a car-centric city up until the 70s, where they started to rebuild it to be a walkable and cyclable city. This started because people protested the dangerous roads, which culminated with the "Stop de Kindermoord" protest.

Maybe if we live long enough, we get to experience a decentralized web again. Next time will come when it's supported by laws, that in turn stand atop a large understanding in the population of why those laws are good and needed.
by dgfitz | 2025-09-09 20:17:05+00:00
Somehow you’re wrong somewhere between two and 3 times in one sentence.

> It is a constitutional monarchy with an elected, time-limited king.

> Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.[1][2][3] Constitutional monarchies differ from absolute monarchies (in which a monarch is the only decision-maker) in that they are bound to exercise powers and authorities within limits prescribed by an established legal framework. A constitutional monarch in a parliamentary democracy is a hereditary symbolic head of state (who may be an emperor, king or queen, prince or grand duke) who mainly performs representative and civic roles but does not exercise executive or policy-making power.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy
by smileybarry | 2025-09-09 20:17:06+00:00
> Incredibly, Vault was discontinued by automatically turning PIN-protected folders into regular unprotected ones!

Oh that's great! I currently use OneDrive because of Personal Vault (and other smaller reasons), because no one else offered something like it. I didn't even know about Vault, but I guess that's for the better because I wouldn't want the folder holding my ID etc. becoming accessible to every single app connected to my Dropbox.

There had to have been a better way to discontinue it. Even making the folder require migration on next access would've been better than silently worsening it.
by program_whiz | 2025-09-09 20:17:11+00:00
In an economy where ideas have value, it seems logical we should have property protection, much like we do for physical goods. Its easy to argue "ideas should be freely shared", but if an idea takes 20 years and $100M dollars to develop, and there are no protections for ideas, then no one will take the time to develop them. Most modern technology we have is due to copyright/patents (drugs, electronics, entertainment, etc.), because without those protections, no one would have invested the time and energy to develop them in the first place.

I believe you are probably only looking at the current state of the world and seeing how it "stifles competition" or "hampers innovation". Those allegations are probably true to some extent, especially in specific cases, but its also missing the fact that without those protections, the tech likely wouldn't be created in the first place (and so you still wouldn't be able to freely use the idea, since the person who invented it wouldn't have).
by gitaarik | 2025-09-09 20:17:55+00:00
We're still here. It's just that the mainsteam picked up on our technology, and now it's a bit harder to find us.

In the old days it was easy. Get into computers, and the internet when it was there, and you would for sure only meet nerds.

Now you mostly meet hipsters.

Just at that early time there was this new field that nobody was really much interested in, but some geeky people were, and that is what united us.

And then we discovered we often shared common causes too, like freedom of information and nerdism.

But now our meeting spaces have been invaded by hipsters making use of the great tools we once created to help each other.

Of course this is not fun, but there is one good thing that might come out of this.

The hipsters might have invaded our spaces, but they are still óúr spaces. We created the fundamentals, and the reason for it's success praises our vision.

Maybe that vision will rub off on the hipsters a little bit, and they get a bit of a feeling of what real freedom is actually all about.

It might take a while, and it will still get worse before it gets better, but we might have set the stage for changing the world.
by adammarples | 2025-09-09 20:18:02+00:00
Actually this is wrong, it's what everyone thinks, but when you take the hazard perception test, if you press a button when you perceive a hazard, you will fail. What actually happens is there are 5 points available per hazard. You have to press the button five times, evenly spaced throughout the due of the hazard, but not starting earlier than the test setters deem appropriate, or you will drop points. It's one of the most bizarrely implemented tests, and needs serious practice to get its arbitrary rules right.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 20:18:34+00:00
> Again, you don't have to believe the people who are sharing their sincere opinion, but A LOT of people regard Hollow Knight as one of the best games ever made.

Why do you think I don't believe that? It's undeniably popular and was critically acclaimed. I never said it wasn't. What I did say was that that Wikipedia article didn't support your assertion that it was widely regarded as one of the best of all time. Just because there are many people who think it's one of the best doesn't mean that most people (or even a large percentage of them) think it is.
by kristopolous | 2025-09-09 20:18:51+00:00
I was certainly talking about exactly this.

Trust me, people thought you were some wild crazy freak.

See here's how it works, watch:

There's going to be concentration camps. The volume of deportation required demands it. There always needs to be two sides agreeing in a deportation, the sending and the receiving. If there's a bottleneck at the receiving or an incompetence in the sending then you warehouse. It's inherent to any logistics.

No that feeling you have that I'm crazy, that's what I'm talking about.

Anyways... See you in a year or so and I'll link back to this.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-09 20:19:01+00:00
> * Restrictive Immigration Policies – Tightened immigration and visa processes are straining labor supply, particularly in sectors that rely on immigrant workers (Axios, 2025 labor coverage).

I like how this is always framed as strained supply instead of upward pressure on wages, as if increasing wages is simply impossible and only supply matters. Then people look at graphs like this[1] and wonder: "What the heck is going on?"

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
by crooked-v | 2025-09-09 20:19:19+00:00
Also, other options that used to be more efficient to build multiple homes at once, like row houses or duplexes/triplexes, are generally directly or indirectly illegal to build in most US cities now. Row houses and brownstones were the cheap-and-fast housing option once upon a time; they're now rare and expensive because in most places nobody's allowed to put up a new one.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-09 20:19:21+00:00
The Fermi Paradox overestimates the likelihood of intelligent life outside of earth. We haven't even found hard evidence of life anywhere outside of our planet. There's not even a verifiably hospitable planet for water-based lifeforms anywhere within dozens of lightyears from earth. Even if a hospitable planet exists within a range we can one day get to, unless it has the same volcanic properties and makeup as earth, it's most probable that life itself never even developed there.

Even where life may have developed, it's incredibly unlikely that sentient intelligence developed. There was never any guarantee that sentience would develop on Earth and about a million unlikely events had to converge in order for that to occur. It's not a natural consequence of evolution, it's an accident of Earth's unique history and several near-extinction level events and drastic climate changes had to occur to make it possible.

The "law of large numbers" is nothing when the odds of sentient intelligence developing are so close to zero. If such a thing occurred or occurs in the future at some location other than Earth, it's reasonably likely that it's outside of our own galaxy or so far from us that we will never meet them. The speed of light is a hell of a thing.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-09 20:19:21+00:00
I don't think you really know whether the tariffs are going to work or not. It's not hare-brained, as you say because it has two purposes: 1) To attempt to bring manufacturing back home and 2) To raise capital in order to pay down the debt.

If you look at the debt clock, 2 is working. As for 1, it's a long-term project and you're being too impatient. Also, you are subject to the mass media hand-wringing propaganda that states that everything Trump does is automatically terrible because Trump. It's childish and nonsensical to think that way, however. We need people who think outside of the box and it's not like Trump came up with "tariffs" by himself without the input of smart economist thinkers.

The point is, you lack the big picture.

On point #1, if the US ends up in a shooting war with China (because China is expansionist) it would be very bad for us if we are unable to manufacture critical supplies, particularly semiconductors, whose manufacture is concentrated in Taiwan, a brittle and untenable situation for the entire western world.

Be a crybaby and downvote me now, or listen and learn, your choice. I agree with the rest of what you said, btw--the whole article is just bs.
by jollyllama | 2025-09-09 20:19:24+00:00
I read the article differently, but it still comes out as a series of non-sequiturs.

> Concern about the Fed being unable to meet structural issues

Sounds like a problem IFF there are extensive structural issues.

> Concern regarding weak labor demand in healthcare

> Concern regarding weak labor supply due to new immigration policies

Shouldn't these two problems tend to balance out?

Also:

> Falls in labour supply can impact inflation, economic growth, and public finances. They can add to inflationary pressures—as employers compete for scarce employees by raising wages, adding to the cost of producing goods and services.

It should balance out, shouldn't it, because demand for the resources will decrease as the supply of laborers decreases as well?
by reissbaker | 2025-09-09 20:19:27+00:00
The most private way is to use them on your own machine; a Mac Studio maxed out to 512GB RAM can run GLM-4.5 at FP8 with fairly long context, for example.

If you don't have the hardware to run it locally, let me shill my own company for a minute: Synthetic [1] has a $20/month subscription to most of the good open-weight coding LLMs, with higher rate limits than Claude's $20/month sub. And our $60/month sub has higher rate limits than the $200/month maxed-out version of the Claude Max plan.

You can still use Claude Code by using LiteLLM or similar tools that convert Anthropic-style API requests to OpenAI-style API requests; once you have one of those running locally, you override the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL env var to point to your locally-running proxy. We'll also be shipping an Anthropic-compatible API this week to work with Claude Code directly. Some other good agentic tools you could use instead include Cline, Roo Code, KiloCode, OpenCode, or Octofriend (the last of which we maintain).

1: https://synthetic.new