MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-09 20:19:46+00:00
> Fed funds/OMOs and balance sheet are separate tools

Fed funds is a market rate. OMO stands for "open market operations," i.e. buying and selling assets. Guess where assets bought and sold wind up?

> throughout 2022. Fed reduced balance sheet while hiking target rate

Yes. It sold bonds to push the price down and thus, causally, yield up. Yield is another word for rate.

The Fed hikes rates by selling assets. Selling assets shrinks the balance sheet. It lowers rates by buying assets. Buying assets grows the balance sheet. What it can't do, at least not in net effect, is shrink its balance sheet while lowering rates. (The Treasury can do this because the Treasury can create and destroy money more freely.)
by d--b | 2025-09-09 20:19:49+00:00
fwiw, I dropped my e-sim iphone in the water.

I asked my provider to issue a new e-sim that I could use in another phone, but it asked me to verify my id by sending me a text message I couldn't receive because I didn't have a phone.

I couldn't buy a new phone without a new sim, because I had forgotten the pin of the card I needed to use, and the pin was visible on a website that was protected with 2FA.

So I bought a physical sim card from my provider shop (using my last physical 10 euros), then went to a used iphone reseller, who let me setup the phone before paying, so that I could use the phone to actually pay for it.

It was not fun
by sharkjacobs | 2025-09-09 20:19:50+00:00
> On June 23, 2025, the Court rendered its Order on Fair Use, Dkt. 231, granting Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in part and denying its motion in part. The Court reached different conclusions regarding different sources of training data. It found that reproducing purchased and scanned books to train AI constituted fair use. Id. at 13-14, 30–31. However, the Court denied summary judgment on the copyright infringement claims related to the works Anthropic obtained from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror. Id. at 19, 31.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26084996-proposed-an...

> reproducing purchased and scanned books to train AI constituted fair use
by xvrqt | 2025-09-09 20:19:55+00:00
We're hanging out on the decentralized web and/or private networks.

Sure it's not the same size as the "real web" but it's got no ads, less spam, less bots, and enough to people to blow out your dunbar ring and fill your cup.

You might never get to be a freelance marketer drop shipping some stupid crap - but that's a price some are willing to pay.
by reify | 2025-09-09 20:20:30+00:00
Nothing new

I knew this back in the late 80's.

Black clients, particularly young Afro-Caribbean men, here in the UK, were regularly diagnosed with psychosis (cannabis psychosis), because they were more likely to be smoking weed.

The discrimination felt by the Rastafarian community was real, as they were more likely to be sectioned under the mental health act.

At the time my colleagues and I thought this to be more about racism within white psychiatric establishment.

Prejudice in society after all is also reflected within psychiatric community.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-09 20:21:07+00:00
> It's the sequel to a game (Hollow Knight) which is widely regarded as one of the best of all time.

There is intense debate in the community to know if it should figure amongst the best of its genre (metroidvania).

It’s absolutely not in contention for best game of all time. It’s not even in the top 3 of its release year which includes Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Cuphead and Divinity 2. To give but one point, the Game of the Year award went to BotW while Cuphead beat HK as best indie.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-09 20:21:23+00:00
Because China.

Ben Thompson (Stratechery) has been documenting for almost a decade that the biggest driver of new phone sales in China is a new form factor.

I’m sure that might be the same in other markets where an iPhone is a status symbol. It’s definitely not one in the US where 60% of phone buyers have iPhones.
by bri3d | 2025-09-09 20:21:24+00:00
I would deeply, strongly caution against using public exploit availability as any evidence of security. It’s a bad idea, because hundreds of market factors and random blind luck affect public exploitability more than the difficulty of developing an exploit chain.

Apple are definitely doing the best job that any firm ever has when it comes to mitigation, by a wide margin. Yet, we still see CVEs drop that are marked as used in the wild in exploit chains, so we know someone is still at it and still succeeding.

When it comes to the Xbox One, it’s an admirable job, in no small part because many of the brightest exploit developers from the Xbox 360 scene were employed to design and build the Xbox One security model. But even still, it’s still got little rips at the seams even in public: https://xboxoneresearch.github.io/games/2024/05/15/xbox-dump...
by jameshart | 2025-09-09 20:21:44+00:00
I apologize, you don’t seem to have followed my argument.

Lego had already put out a number of licensed sets featuring specific ‘real people’ (Star Wars characters) using just yellow minifigs. That changed in 2003 (same year as the NBA license) when they released the Cloud City set, and evidently came to the realization that they could not continue to use yellow for all characters. That set includes yellow Han and Leia minifigs, by the way - white skin tone minifigs came later.

The point is that if the claim which, yes, Lego has made since 1978, that yellow was neutral and could represent any race – if that claim has any value, they could have proudly released 10123 Cloud City with a yellow Lando.

They didn’t. Yellow turns out not to have been as neutral as they believed. Lando proves it.

As for Lego vs the Simpsons I didn’t claim any causative influence between the two - just pointing out that Simpsons made the same choice, with yellow representing white people, and nonwhite people having different skin tones. Both Lego and the Simpsons have accidentally encoded a white default under a ‘nonrealistic color choice’.

My point is that emojis have done exactly the same thing.
by dang | 2025-09-09 20:21:47+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

Compare the New iPhone Models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186294 - Sept 2025 (95 comments)

iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186044 - Sept 2025 (42 comments)

Apple Debuts iPhone 17 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186023 - Sept 2025 (104 comments)
by semidror | 2025-09-09 20:21:52+00:00
IIRC, iPhones (and every other smartphone) records variable frame rate videos (VFR), whereas professional cameras can record constant frame rate videos (CFR).

I think that VFR videos need to be re-encoded into CFR videos in order to be able to work with all the footage shot by different devices. It sounds to me like with the Genlock feature, it could actually be possible to record CFR videos on an iPhone and also synchronize the iPhone with other devices so that both video and audio does not drift relative to other devices. But that's just my speculation as I couldn't find any details about the Genlock feature.

I would love to know how the team working on 28 years later handled synchronization of the multiple iPhones they were using to shoot some scenes of the movie and if they got a helping hand from Apple, which perhaps allowed them to use some internal APIs to access hidden features of the camera stack...
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-09 20:22:07+00:00
Not to pile on, but there is a huge public misunderstanding when it comes to economic data.

The data is lagging, usually by a full year. The policies that lead to that data are from the year before data collection, at a minimum, more likely two+ years.

Economic policies generally take time to ripple through the economy. Generally. There are exceptions. Interest rates tend to affect things pretty quickly relative to other changes.
by kemayo | 2025-09-09 20:22:12+00:00
Subjective indeed. I don't mind the broad camera bump -- it's a good trade-off for getting the increased zoom, honestly. I'm not quite sure how I feel about the differently-colored ceramic bit on the back, though. But, on the plus side, not like that's the bit of the phone I look at.

Plus, the orange looks great. (In their promo shots. We've occasionally seen these look a lot less vivid once you see them in real life.)
by CharlesW | 2025-09-09 20:22:27+00:00
The focus was naturally scenes and "vibes" that couldn't be achieved with traditional films cameras. Boyle and Mantle weren't afraid to use whatever was best for the job, which included drones and other camera systems as well. More on their iPhone camera rigs for anyone who's interested:

https://www.ign.com/articles/28-years-later-danny-boyle-goes...

https://www.motionpictures.org/2025/06/how-28-years-later-dp...

https://www.wired.com/story/danny-boyle-says-shooting-on-iph...

Related: Driver POV footage for F1 was shot with Apple-created custom iPhone rigs as well.
by adamrezich | 2025-09-09 20:22:55+00:00
Honest question: do you see Caucasian features in the default yellow smiley face ideogram?

When Wal-Mart used it as their logo, was that an attempt to market toward white people specifically?

When a Japanese guy drew the first widely-used set of emoji, do you think he was doing so under the auspices of white supremacy (so strongly that he didn't even notice the “yellow = Asian” racist stereotype he was obviously participating in)?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-09 20:22:56+00:00
They don't work everywhere, and when they do work they're not a panacea. It's like host-based security: if you get past this one barrier... what, everything is completely pwnd? You need defense in depth. That means the authentication factor(s) must not be the final word in security. So not using a passkey or hardware token shouldn't be a death knell.
by gambiting | 2025-09-09 20:23:02+00:00
I don't think I have ever plugged in my phone, like at all, ever, and it's not even an iPhone. And if I want to get any photos/videos I made with it, they are just in Google photos?

Like I get there are some people who maybe use the thing as an actual camera and they suddenly need to download tens if not hundreds of gigabytes of media off the phone but like.....I guess it's just not the phone for them? And like you said the Pro supports USB3 speeds so what's the issue? 5gbps is really not fast enough?
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 20:23:22+00:00
Tangentially: There's interesting research out there indicating that cellular repair is guided and promoted by the local electrical fields from surrounding tissues.

For example: "Treating Scars After Burns With Pulsed Electric Fields in the Rat Model" - https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article-abstract/45/6/1553/772...

I wonder if we (or at least, our descendants) will figure out limb regrowth before we figure out functional immortality.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-09 20:23:25+00:00
DOGE was the hint of austerity and everyone shit themselves and freaked out about all the government layoffs and cost cutting. The same thing is happening in Argentina--the Peronists are on the rise again because nobody has the patience for any shred of a libertarian style of governance to work. Oh, and corruption, but we'll see about that. It would actually piss me off royally if Milei goes down because he couldn't resist having his own hand in the till. A lot is at stake, just the entire future of the human race and all that.
by qianli_cs | 2025-09-09 20:23:55+00:00
Those are great questions!

For versioning, we recommend keeping each version running until all workflows on that version are done. It's similar to a blue-green deployment: each process is tagged with one version, and all workflows in it share that version. You can list pending/enqueued workflows on the old version (UI or list_workflow programmatic API), and once that list drains, you can shut down the old processes. DBOS Cloud automates this, and we'll add more guidance for self-hosting.

For bugfixes, DBOS supports programmatic forking and other workflow management tools [1]. We deliberately don't support code patching because it's fragile and hard to test. For example, patches can pile up on long-running workflows and make debugging painful.

The main limit is the database (which you can control the size). DBOS writes workflow inputs, step outputs, and workflow outputs to it. There's no step limit beyond disk space. Postgres/SQLite allow up to 1 GB per field, but keeping inputs/outputs under ~2 MB helps performance. We'll add clearer guidelines to the docs.

Thanks again for all the thoughtful questions!

[1] https://docs.dbos.dev/python/reference/contexts#fork_workflo...
by runjake | 2025-09-09 20:24:13+00:00
The Samsung S25 Edge, which has already been on the market for a while, seems to be pretty popular.

It's 0.16mm thicker than the Air. I've got to admit it was surprisingly pleasant to hold.

I even did a low key bend test and it did not bend, but I literally had store security walk up to me and ask me not to do that.

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s25-edge/
by gxonatano | 2025-09-09 20:24:32+00:00
It's not great design. It's a dirty hack that might work for some people, but is a non-standard practice that abuses JavaScript to achieve a certain effect. Overriding scrolling behavior might work if you're scrolling with a mouse or trackpad at a consistent speed, that that might even work for a majority of the site's visitors, but for others it breaks. If you press the PageDown key to get to the next page, it doesn't work. If you scroll half a page down using another key combination, it doesn't work. If you use a text-based browser, it doesn't work. I didn't test it using a screen reader or other types of browsers, but I can't imagine it would work that well there, either.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-09 20:24:44+00:00
Programming used to look like “lots of typing” but that’s never what it was.

Programming is (to a rough approximation) turning fuzzy specs from humans into well crafted solutions that solve a problem. Sometimes using code.

We are in a new era of computing where probabilistic AND deterministic machines can be built and put to use by humans.

That’s super exciting!
by kemayo | 2025-09-09 20:25:11+00:00
I'm one of those people who really likes the camera features, so there's no question about which one interests me. The Pro also has a battery life estimate that's 45% longer than the Air's, which is pretty important to me. Those two things combine to be a pretty big differentiator.

EDIT: actually, base Pro is only 22% more battery life. I was accidentally comparing it to the Pro Max. Still, important.
by giantg2 | 2025-09-09 20:25:18+00:00
"A working parent using a daycare voucher necessarily pays taxes back into the system and so does the day care."

This assumes the value of the parent working is greater than the value generated by the alternative consumer spending.

"and incentivizes people to not work"

This would only incentivize low income individuals to not work, which could actually be beneficial as it could drive a living wage increase in that labor segment if employers had to compete against the benefit.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-09 20:25:52+00:00
> What are the PMs doing at Apple.

Probably trying to find better screen materials, and addressing reliability issues.

I used Palm devices with resistive touch screens. It was good, but when you go glass, there's no turning back.

I would never buy a phone with folding screens protected by plastic. I want a dependable slab. Not a gimmicky gadget which can die any moment. I got my fix for dying flex cables with Casiopeia PDAs. Never again.
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-09 20:26:02+00:00
> QE means buying assets that are not Treasuries.

The short answer is that it depends - it is not not QE. it depends on the magnitude. Current operations seem to go deeper into QE than regular OMO.

> The price of a bond, mathematically, moves inversely with its yield.

Yes? But the central bank han many other ways to influence the rate, eg. overnight rate and OMO instead of buying MBS, etc.

As you indicate yourself, having the FED as a market participant will artificially lower the yield on MBS, which is a form of planned economy on the housing market.

> You can't reduce the balance sheet and lower rates.

Why the insane focus on lowering the rate? Keeping rates below 0 in real terms for long terms can arguable have very adverse effects - especially the day the currency is not backed by the largest military in the world (Which, surprise, is not decades into the future anymore).

Regardless, the future will show what happens. We can nothing but speculate.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-09 20:26:13+00:00
> If you look at the debt clock, 2 is working.

Only if you look at debt clocks based on government numbers. If you look at debt clocks based on independent estimates, you get an increasing deficit in 2025.

1. is obviously not a long term project because of the flip-flopping and arbitrariness. Tariffs change every month so nobody is doing any long term planning.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-09 20:26:24+00:00
> Fundamentally, doesn't the security depend entirely on whether https is working properly? Even the standard package repos are relying on https right?

They should only need http. You don't need https at all if your package is signed. The package/installer/app/etc could come from anywhere, modified by anyone, at any level. But if it's not signed by the dev's private key (which only exists on their laptop [or hardware token], protected by a password/key manager), it's invalid. This avoids the hundred different exploits between the dev and the user.

What's actually crazy about this is, if you're already making the user do a copy and paste, it doesn't have to be one line. Compare that line above, to:

(set -eu; tmpf="$(mktemp)"; [ -w "$tmpf" ] && curl https://install.duckdb.org/ -o "$tmpf" && echo "d5d91c69a874ef99c30cf36654f623ed9c423ed0e210dca229744ce4d3b273d0 *$tmpf" | sha256sum -c - && bash "$tmpf")

All you have to do is copy and paste that snippet, and the same thing will happen as the one-liner, except it will only work if the sha256sum is valid. Now this isn't perfect of course, we should be using artifacts signed by a private key. But it's better than just praying.
by criemen | 2025-09-09 20:26:38+00:00
They posted

> We are continuing to monitor for any ongoing quality issues, including reports of degradation for Claude Opus 4.1.

I take that as acknowledgment that there might be an issue with Opus 4.1 (granted, undetected still), but not undisclosed, and they're actively looking for it? I'd not jump to "they must be hiding things" yet. They're building, deploying and scaling their service at incredible pace, they, as we all, are bound to get some things wrong.
by superkuh | 2025-09-09 20:26:58+00:00
This is the opposite of fun computing. This is commercial computing who's only use case it making sure that people can send/receive money through their computers securely. I love being able to peek/poke inside and look at my processes ram, or patch the memory of an executable. All this sounds pretty impossible on Apple's locked down systems.

They're not so much general purpose computers anymore as they are locked down bank terminals.
by 5f3cfa1a | 2025-09-09 20:26:58+00:00
I hate this comic because it is profoundly lazy, and I hate it when people hand-wave away meaningful security advances with it.

Hitting people with wrenches leaves marks that can be shown to the media and truth & reconciliation commissions. Wetwork and black-bagging dissidents leaves records: training, operational, evidence after the fact. And it hardly scales – no matter what the powers at be want you to think, I think history shows there are more Hugh Thompsons than Oskar Dirlewangers, even if it takes a few years to recognize what they've done.

If we improve security enough that our adversaries are _forced_ to break out the wrenches, that's a very meaningful improvement!
by cubefox | 2025-09-09 20:27:13+00:00
The thinnest phone is still the Vivo X5 Max from 10 years ago. It was 4.75 mm (iPhone Air: 5.5 mm) without significant camera bump to speak of. Here are some pictures:

https://gsmarena.com/vivo_x5max-pictures-6865.php

Apparently the "thin phone" trend is coming back.
by shshahshsusus | 2025-09-09 20:27:14+00:00
Alright, buckle up — here’s a *Curb Your Enthusiasm scene* where Larry takes the iPhone Air press release way too personally at the Apple Store.

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### Scene: Apple Store, Santa Monica

*Larry* walks in, holding his old iPhone with a cracked screen. He approaches a blue-shirted *Apple Genius*.

*Larry:* So I hear you got this new iPhone Air. Thinnest phone ever, huh? Five-point-six millimeters. What is this, a phone or a Wheat Thin?

*Genius:* It’s our most advanced design yet. Stronger, lighter—

*Larry:* Stronger? If it’s so strong, why is it thinner than a Ritz cracker? You ever eaten a Ritz cracker? Crumbles right in your hand! That’s what I’m gonna be holding here. Crumbs! Phone crumbs in my pocket!

*Genius:* Actually, it’s titanium. Aerospace grade.

*Larry:* Oh! Aerospace. Yeah, good. Because when I’m playing Sudoku on the toilet, I really want NASA technology under my thumbs. Very important. “Houston, I got a number two problem.”

*Genius:* The new 48-megapixel Fusion camera—

*Larry:* Fusion? What am I, splitting atoms now? I just want to take a picture of a sandwich. I don’t need the Manhattan Project in my pocket. And the front camera’s square? Square! Cameras are round, wheels are round, even faces are round. You make it square, now I look like SpongeBob in every selfie.

*Genius:* Well, the square sensor lets you take landscape photos while holding your phone vertically.

*Larry:* Vertically? Vertically?! Oh, thank you, Apple, you’ve saved me from rotating my wrist. What a terrible burden it’s been. Centuries of humanity struggling, and finally Apple says, “Don’t move your wrist, Larry, we’ll do it for you.” Unbelievable.

*Genius:* It also has all-day battery life.

*Larry:* All-day? What’s “all day”? My day? Your day? A raccoon’s day? Be specific! At 11:58 p.m. the phone dies and you go, “Oh, sorry Larry, guess your day’s over!” I still got two episodes of Columbo left, pal!

*Genius:* It’s also eSIM only.

*Larry:* Oh, fantastic. No physical SIM. So if I lose signal, I can’t even take it out, blow on it, do the old Nintendo trick. I just stare at my \$1,000 “air” sandwich and pray. That’s the feature? Praying?

*Genius:* It starts at \$999—

*Larry:* Nine-ninety-nine! For a phone that could slip between two couch cushions and vanish forever. You should sell it with a metal detector. “Find your iPhone Air before it suffocates under the ottoman!”

(Larry storms out, muttering.)

*Larry:* Thin phone, thick price. What a world.

---

Want me to *write another one where Larry’s actually at the launch keynote*, interrupting Tim Cook from the audience like a heckler?
by lisbbb | 2025-09-09 20:27:47+00:00
I don't think you understand bonds. The rates don't float once issued. They discount the price in order to sell at a certain yield at time of issue. After that, the prices float in the market based on current rates, but it's not a very liquid market. I own bonds with like 2.5% coupon and nobody will buy them and the estimated price is just that, an estimate, because nobody will actually buy them. I can hold to maturity and be made whole. I just missed out on buying higher rate bonds for the duration. It's fine.

I honestly don't know what the Fed does or how it does it. I think if you dig deep enough, it's like that Rick & Morty episode where Rick brings down the entire Galactic Bug Empire by changing a "1" to a "0" in their computer system, thereby making their entire currency immediately worthless.

Monetary systems work on trust until they don't. Then there is a world war.