MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by programjames | 2025-09-09 18:26:37+00:00
Suppose childcare is $15k/year and you work minimum wage making less than $15k/year. Then there's less wealth to go around, just more in your pocket. But actually, you probably don't take home all the wealth you create, so it can actually still be better for the economy. It is still worse for the economy, but not for that reason. Probably because labor has a backward-bending supply curve, and most people are already working more hours than is optimal. As another commenter said, it would probably be better for the economy to make a 30 hour work week.
by ghaff | 2025-09-09 18:26:48+00:00
I certainly saw engagement, collaboration, etc. going down once things switched heavily to video calls (even before COVID) rather than meeting in-person in various ways--especially among people you didn't already know.

Of course, in many situations, it's unavoidable. I'm probably not going to hop on an international trip at the drop of a hat--though I certainly attended events.

But there's some subset of people that just don't want to travel or go into an office at all and IMO they're mostly mis-guided.
by ctoth | 2025-09-09 18:26:49+00:00
I don't think anyone is unfamiliar with the consequences of installing potential malware. I think people are surprised that a seemingly? legit company is going off and having a little pokeabout on arbitrary computers based on nothing more than a hostname match. Then sharing screenshots on HN. I guess they're Canadian but wow does this seem to have CFAA written all over it?
by jasode | 2025-09-09 18:26:56+00:00
>People very rarely switch phone operating systems.

This is true and I'm not claiming that switching is a common occurrence.

That said, the more likely os migration is from iOS-to-Android rather than Android-to-iOS. I know more than a dozen people that have switched from iPhone to Android. I know nobody that switched from Android to iPhone.

Of the people that want to leave iOS for Android but haven't pulled the trigger... what's holding them back is the Apple Watch and the iPad. The Android ecosystem (Samsung) doesn't have competitive hardware in those areas.

My friend really wants to switch to Android for the superior Google AI Assistant but can't because her Apple Watch tracks her medical stats better than Samsung/Garmin watches. She already uses Google-everything-else with Google Sheets/Docs/Calendar/Keep/Gmail/Voice. If Tim Cook made Apple Watch work perfectly with Android phones, he'd lose her as a customer.

>Why doesn't Apple not let you have a MacBook unless you have an iPhone?

PowerBook and MacBook were around as standalone before iPhone existed. The Apple Watch was always created & marketed as an accessory for the iPhone. The AirPods is a hybrid situation where they partially work with Android but it is crippled with missing features. You have to use AirPods with Apple's ecosystem for full functionality.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-09 18:26:57+00:00
My guess is that they can't make it battery efficient (non-Ultra watches barely survive a day just showing a watchface and whirring at notifications, with widgets severely lagging in updates due to extremely tight budgets: e.g. weather forecast is nearly always out of date for me, I use the widget to open the app and force it to refresh to get anything accurate), so they're pushing towards bulkier packaging under the guise of ruggedness.
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-09 18:26:57+00:00
50 miles is a lot. That can easily be 2h in most big cities.

To do what exactly? Sit in an open office in Redmond, jump on Teams to call with someone in Fort Lauderdale?

Funny thing, I had multiple interviews with them on explicit remote roles (which are different from roles that went remote during COVID). I wonder if the policy changes there.
by dmux | 2025-09-09 18:27:21+00:00
>Disclaimer: This library is not related to the MISRA C standard or guidelines. The name "MisraStdC" comes from the author's name, Siddharth Mishra, who is commonly known as "Misra" among friends.

Why include the letters Std then? This seems like a purposeful typo-squatting effort and definitely makes me suspicious.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-09 18:27:30+00:00
> find it insane that someone would get access to a package like this, then just push a shitty crypto stealer

Consumer financial fraud is quite big and relatively harmless. Industrial espionage, otoh, can potentially put you in the cross hairs of powerful and/or rouge elements, and so, only the big actors get involved, but in a targeted way, preferring to not leave much if any trace of compromise.
by alexk307 | 2025-09-09 18:27:38+00:00
> As climate breakdown accelerates, rainfall patterns are changing fast, and water will increasingly become less available at certain times of year. As Sir David King, a former UK chief scientific adviser who chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, says: “Drought in England is no longer a warning. It is a clear signal that climate collapse is unravelling our water, food and natural systems right now.

Rainfall over all of the UK has been increasing since 1840 accord to the Met Office [1]. How is a drought a clear signal of collapse if they've been happening since before the industrial revolution? [2]

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/...

[2] https://iahs.info/uploads/dms/13708.88-483-489-81-308-Cole-F...
by bitpush | 2025-09-09 18:27:39+00:00
I know this is a flippant response, so I'll side step that and address the issue you're getting at.

You make money by solving an inefficiency.

"Payments on the web is hard. We'll make it easy" -> Stripe.

"It is hard to get a taxi" -> Uber.

"The legal system is hard to navigate" -> Lawyers.

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If your value prop is, people dont like listening to ads. The right approach is to offer subscriptions to ad-free podcasts. Buy our service for $x / mo and get ad free podcasts. But that wont be "ad blocking"
by taeric | 2025-09-09 18:27:45+00:00
It is a lot like demand for spacious pockets in fashionable clothing. People largely think you can get that with no tradeoff on anything regarding the clothes. And, you just can't.

So, for phones, people say they want a small one to fit in your pocket. With, fair. But that generally means a smaller screen when you are using it. Which people don't really want.

Foldables help a ton with this. And I think that will ultimately pan out. People are understandably worried about being early on that train, though.
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 18:27:45+00:00
> ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said.

Sounds like a real cool guy.

Wiretaps have always been a tool in law enforcement's hands, and if it's subject to a warrant, which the article goes on to say it was, I am completely fine with this. If the ability to tap phone conversations 75 years ago didn't cause us to descend into fascism, I don't automatically think this is scary.
by finaard | 2025-09-09 18:27:48+00:00
Most mail providers have something like plus addressing. Properly used that already eliminates a lot of phishing attempts: If I get a mail I need to reset something for foobar, but it is not addressed to me-foobar (or me+foobar) I already know it is fraudulent. That covers roughly 99% of phishing attempts for me.

The rest is handled by preferring plain text over HTML, and if some moron only sends HTML mails to carefully dissect it first. Allowing HTML mails was one of the biggest mistakes for HTML we've ever made - zero benefits with huge attack surface.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-09-09 18:27:58+00:00
You're quoting from a thread that is 10 years old.

I know you can do better. Nobody needs to use let alone love ardour. But misinformation about it is troubling.

BTW, protocols dominated the daw space with either no MIDI or about as weak an implementation as ardour's, so appeals to 80s sequencers is a bit pointless
by throw0101d | 2025-09-09 18:28:09+00:00
> iPhone Air features an eSIM-only design that saves space internally, helping enable the unbelievably light and thin form factor.

I've only ever had phones with at least one (regular/physical) eSIM, and a 'slot' for an eSIM for travel.

What are the pros/cons of only eSIMs?

Edit: I'm not questioning eSIMs, which I know can be handy: my iPhone SE3 is physical+eSIM. I'm curious about no physical SIM. If you can support 1-eSIM+physical is it a big deal to go to >1-eSIM+physical?
by dingnuts | 2025-09-09 18:28:13+00:00
I have read so many anecdotes about so many models that "were great" and aren't now.

I actually think this is psychological bias. It got a few things right early on, and that's what you remember. As time passes, the errors add up, until the memory doesn't match reality. The "new shiny" feeling goes away, and you perceive it for what it really is: a kind of shitty slot machine

> personally am frustrated that there’s no refund or anything after a month of degraded performance

lol, LMAO. A company operates a shitty slot machine at a loss and you're surprised they have "issues" that reduce your usage?

I'm not paying for any of this shit until these companies figure out how to align incentives. If they make more by applying limits, or charge me when the machine makes errors, that's good for them and bad for me! Why should I continue to pay to pull on the slot machine lever?

It's a waste of time and money. I'll be richer and more productive if I just write the code myself, and the result will be better too.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-09 18:28:17+00:00
I live in Seattle. Android gets that, but we don't yet, and they keep putting it off. This is basically Seattle's core dysfunction on display (called the "Seattle Process"), and its why our escalators are always broken, our transit projects are a few decades behind schedule, and why ORCA cards can't be loaded into an Apple Wallet yet.

When I visit Japan though, Apple watch works fine with SUICA. Unfortunately, in China, AliPay is too complicated to be used on a watch and you have to whip out your phone regardless because of the QR code thing. If China ever upgrades to NFC, it will work fine.
by fibers | 2025-09-09 18:28:32+00:00
Live translation u/i feels like a significant upgrade for that specific product, especially if you are in a dense area with different types of speakers. It feels like a way better MVP than Meta Glasses that are only meant to do troll videos on tiktok or youtube. The examples they trotted out feel ridiculous but that's because they have been approved by their internal systems.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-09 18:28:43+00:00
Yes, I should have specified that, as that's what I meant.

I'm not sure of the point in sending a human there and back without a colony, but that wouldn't stop us if we find an emotional reason. The poor astronaut will die young after their return, of course, but that's true for many occupations already.

Not surprised at the downvotes I got. "We're going to live out there! Soon!" is baked into us by every TV show, movie, and book around us, it seems. But it is nowhere as easy as "2001: A Space Odyssey" promised. Not even as easy as "Space 1999".
by riku_iki | 2025-09-09 18:28:50+00:00
> On linux it looks like `apt install python3`.

for MacOS they have it in brew, which is also you can use on linux, also it is available in nix.

I think the problem is that there are so many linux distros with their own package repositories, that it is very untrivial task to include package into most of them if maintainers are not proactively interested.
by dwedge | 2025-09-09 18:29:31+00:00
I wonder if there isn't a market for budget Androids in this range. Personally I have an Oppo Asomething that was around $50. I'd pay more for a smaller version which would probably have slightly better performance.

> A huge portion of the world only has 1 computer and it's their phone.

This is something that really surprised me to realise a couple of years ago - that unless they work in tech, most households (I don't know if most isn't an exaggeration, but a large proportion) don't have a laptop or desktop between them now.
by mortytownlocal | 2025-09-09 18:29:53+00:00
Recently completed the first phase of a side project I've been working on. I’ve got the UI/automation built out, along with a quick presentation to set the context. I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone is willing to share.

A few things…

Medelink seeks to redefine preventative healthcare. We approach this through two channels:

1. Gamifying preventative care by showing users the theoretical time added to members' lives based on micro-actions.

2. Presenting relevant medical data that helps consumers make pragmatic health decisions. Not just claims or medical records, but also insights from wearable tech—delivered in a clean, simplified manner. Ultimately, this will result in more cost-effective care treatments while providing the appropriate context when generating custom care plans.

Ideally, I see payers as the primary buyers, since they represent the largest distribution channel and are financially incentivized to have healthier members. Obviously, there’s still a lot of work ahead—not to mention the need for real data. Nonetheless, any insights or opinions would be greatly appreciated!
by Panoramix | 2025-09-09 18:30:10+00:00
It's very difficult. It took ASML 20 years, and Apple has none of the core competences to make this happen, like optical lithography, EUV optics, plasma physics, vacuum, laser, sources...and then they would have to catch-up to the other tech. For example, today's top end ASML stages accelerate with >10g while still having nm position accuracy.
by clifdweller | 2025-09-09 18:30:23+00:00
I think that could be the killer feature of this use that space for thin batteries maybe only 2500mah. i can carry 3-4 in my bag and have as much battery life as i care to carry around. and rather than push the charging to 30+ watts that turns my phone into a hotplate can recharge 3 batteries at once at 10w in same time. Bonus to apple on accessories sales
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-09 18:30:25+00:00
> you can pay $100 more for the Pro and get significantly more features and battery life

Segmentation. More features aren't material if you don't use them. And plenty of people (not me) habitually charge their phones to the extent that carrying around extra battery just in case is sort of like having a 400-mile EV for grocery runs.
by MrBrobot | 2025-09-09 18:30:44+00:00
Roundabouts are great… except when you install them in places people don’t understand how to traverse them. A list of the most dangerous intersections in Michigan is published every year, and the roundabouts near me pretty consistently make the top 5 to top 10.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/07/03/these-a...
by fibers | 2025-09-09 18:30:46+00:00
When they first introduced eSIM only on the 13 iirc, not every country had that rolled out especially with old telcos in South America so if you travelled there for work or family you were completely shut out and it means buying a burner. I am not sure how that has progressed in the past 4 years but hopefully more telcos adopt it. The downside is no real portability of cheap plans using regular sim cards.
by pavlov | 2025-09-09 18:30:49+00:00
This reminds me of Nokia's glory days around the turn of the millennium, when the mobile phone's essential functionality was well established and they excelled at packaging the same thing into ever-smaller cases made of ever-fancier metals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8850/8890

The Motorola Razr of course was part of this trend too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Razr_V3
by ameliaquining | 2025-09-09 18:30:53+00:00
Yeah, this particular situation's a bit weird because it's asking the user to do something (rotate their 2FA secret) that in real life is not really a thing; I'm not sure what to think of it. But you could imagine something similar like "we want you to set up 2FA for the first time" or "we want you to supply additional personal information that the government has started making us collect", where the site might have to disable some kind of account functionality (though probably not a complete lockout) for users who don't do the thing in time.
by brundolf | 2025-09-09 18:31:29+00:00
When Samsung came out with its ultra-thin phone earlier this year, reviewers said you can't really tell from pictures but it really does feel different in-hand, and is substantially lighter. This one is slightly thinner than Samsung's

Not enough for me to upgrade, but I would consider this one if I were buying this year

The rumors are also strong for a folding iPhone next year, in which case this may just be them using the same thinness work they already had to do for that. A foldable would prompt me to upgrade
by withinrafael | 2025-09-09 18:31:35+00:00
In July, packages were loading malicious DLLs (on Windows targets) [1]. It doesn't appear Lavamoat would help in that scenario. Is that right? If so, how do you mitigate this? Run everything in a container?

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-falcon-pr...
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-09 18:31:39+00:00
The most annoying thing about handling my 12 Pro Max one-handed is the weight, with thickness being 2nd, and screen size being a distant 3rd.

I went from someone who had to have the latest phone on pre-order to someone who doesn't bother: this is the first time I'm considering a new phone release in years. I suspect many other people are in the same boat.

I'm just not sure if I'll miss 3 cameras too much.
by Rudybega | 2025-09-09 18:31:45+00:00
Abstract: "The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments. To address this, we present an AI system that creates expert-level scientific software whose goal is to maximize a quality metric. The system uses a Large Language Model (LLM) and Tree Search (TS) to systematically improve the quality metric and intelligently navigate the large space of possible solutions. The system achieves expert-level results when it explores and integrates complex research ideas from external sources. The effectiveness of tree search is demonstrated across a wide range of benchmarks. In bioinformatics, it discovered 40 novel methods for single-cell data analysis that outperformed the top human-developed methods on a public leaderboard. In epidemiology, it generated 14 models that outperformed the CDC ensemble and all other individual models for forecasting COVID-19 hospitalizations. Our method also produced state-of-the-art software for geospatial analysis, neural activity prediction in zebrafish, time series forecasting and numerical solution of integrals. By devising and implementing novel solutions to diverse tasks, the system represents a significant step towards accelerating scientific progress."

This seems like really cool research and a natural next step for AlphaEvolve style algorithms in a slightly different problem domain.
by immibis | 2025-09-09 18:31:48+00:00
People get arrested for petty vandalism all the time, even if they didn't petty vandalize.

The police won't bother to track down who graffitied your fence, but money-making companies are a different matter.

And it definitely depends on demography. I assume they're still using it, but maybe they just plug everyone's face into Palantir now.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-09 18:31:50+00:00
> Not a hill I'm going to die on, but the SAT has many attributes IQ-ists insist IQ tests are insulated from

This is false. In particular:

> it's straightforwardly trainable

No, it isn't. There is an extensive literature on SAT prep, finding that it's worth a couple of points on the test. It is widely described as being trainable, but the opposite was always a design goal, and historically that goal was achieved very well.

You might note that the Raven's matrices are infamous for huge training effects; that test relies on the testee having never seen it before. The SAT doesn't.

> culturally loaded

This claim is true, but nobody claims that IQ tests are insulated from being culturally loaded. The purpose of Raven's is to be a culture-free test. Wechsler makes no such pretense.

> samples only math, processing speed, and verbal reasoning

I'm not sure what you're saying here.

> and tracks prior educational experience as much as it does aptitude.

And this one is false. The point of the SAT is to test only low-level material so that you can be confident the entire test-taking population has been exposed to the material. Aptitude has a very large influence on SAT score; prior education has a negligible influence.

(Prior education will have a larger influence if the population you're investigating includes a lot of people with no education, the kind of people who left school after or before kindergarten. But that scenario isn't relevant to... pretty much any question about the SAT.)

> Draw-a-Person basically isn't an IQ test at all, so I don't see how that comparison clears anything up.

It is an IQ test by the standard you defined: it holds itself out as being "an IQ test", and it is used by researchers to study the intelligence of testees. Did you want to use a different definition?
by xyst | 2025-09-09 18:31:57+00:00
This has to be a joke, right?

Doesn’t matter if you are "right" or "left". Arkansas farmers getting steam rolled by this awful tariff policy from orange man administration [1] to the point where they are asking for bailouts.

The only people benefiting from those tariffs are billionaires hoping to put the common man into more debt or continue to buy up depreciating assets due to squeezing from all angles.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-farmers-pleading-us-...
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-09 18:32:08+00:00
I will forever fight this with saying that chat is an async medium. If you need a response right now, pick up the phone.

Worst offenders are people who say things like: Hey, how are you doing?

And then ... nothing.

Or maybe people are actually working on something. And your 2 minute question might cause them to lose 30 minutes.

This is why it is important to have multiple work-streams going when doing remote work, so that you don't sit around and wait until you have your answer.
by hereme888 | 2025-09-09 18:32:37+00:00
Would anyone agree with my experience that OpenAI has the most robust and reliable LLM ecosystem atm? One week I really like Gemini 2.5 pro, the next I thought Claude was better, a few days I thought Grok 4 was pretty good (grok 4 is the most inconsistent "model"). But at the end, I default to OpenAI for overall consistency and reliability.
by vharuck | 2025-09-09 18:32:37+00:00
This is an administration that once had a man who, during a meeting about deportations attended by department lawyers, in response to what would be done if the courts rejected their rationale, said "Fuck the courts."

This man is no longer part of the administration. But not because he was fired for this blatant disregard for the judicial branch. It's because he was nominated to be a judge (and the Senate confirmed him).
by coldpie | 2025-09-09 18:32:55+00:00
> I wonder if there isn't a market for budget Androids in this range.

I think there is: https://smallandroidphone.com/ This was started up by the people behind Pebble (including its re-launch this year). I actually emailed them a while back asking for a status update. They told me there are literally no high quality screens of an appropriate size available to OEMs. They would have to design & spin up their own display hardware, which is where things change from "expensive" to "infeasible." If there was an existing, high quality 4.5~5" screen, I think it'd be an easy slam dunk. But there apparently is not...

Too bad. I just hold out hope Apple will try the Mini again before my 13 dies.