MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whynotmaybe | 2025-09-09 15:22:10+00:00
One weird but interesting theory : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...

There are recurring cycles in the American/Western history, with each cycle lasting +- 20 years.

The cycles are High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis.

We're supposedly in the Crisis cycle, where there are major crises like war, depression,revolutions that would help the society to rebuild institutions.

This theory seems completely flawed as it applies itself retroactively, entrenched in confirmation bias, but still entertaining.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-09 15:22:11+00:00
> every parent is pining to contribute to the churning of capitalism

People don’t want to work because they’re “pining to contribute to the churning of capitalism”. They want to work for income, for career development, or even because they like what they do.

This is such a dismissive way to phrase it that doesn’t even acknowledge why people work. Reducing everything to “capitalism” is missing the point.
by butterisgood | 2025-09-09 15:22:15+00:00
It does this in emacs with efrit. https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit

It can actually drive emacs itself, creating buffers, being told not to edit the buffers and simply respond in the chat etc.

I actually _like_ working with efrit vs other LLM integrations in editors.

In fact I kind of need to have my anthropic console up to watch my usage... whoops!
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-09 15:22:31+00:00
Yes, capitalism has been great, and we can do better.

Capitalism has a flaw, it only does what is profitable.

What is profitable is not one and the same with what is socially necessary or even what is good. They're more like analogous.

Like I said before capitalism is the only economic system that cannot handle more workers. If you produce for profit you cannot produce for needs. In a sense profits vs needs are made of the same stuff but dont look the same. Especially at scale.

Employing as many people as possible wouldnt be a problem if you were working for needs because, simply, more needs would be covered.

Its literally that simple. And when there is a true surplus of workers it would mean less work/more leisure.
by patrickthebold | 2025-09-09 15:22:39+00:00
I agree.

Ideally we could just increase the tax credits so it's large enough to cover the childcare expenses (and other necessities), and let the families decide what is best. And yes, some people are going to do a bad job taking care of their kids and spend the money on something else. But my understanding is that it generally works well to just give people money, rather than pay for specific things.
by chongli | 2025-09-09 15:22:39+00:00
I appreciate your optimism but I’m skeptical. I dated someone who worked in child care (with a degree in ECE). She was quite miserable caring for a dozen screaming babies all day. I think the burnout and turnover for such a job (which requires a degree but still paid minimum wage) is likely to be extremely high.

The other thing that doesn’t make sense to me is the economics of it. The pay for the staff is very low but the cost of service to parents is very high. That means so much of the cost is overhead which would make the whole thing quite unsustainable, even when ostensibly covered by the government.

I live in Canada and a similar issue is occurring with our universal health care system. The costs are skyrocketing even as wait times are increasing.
by klabb3 | 2025-09-09 15:23:05+00:00
If Europe carbon-copied the same regulatory framework as the US, do you think the rest of the world would start pouring trillions of euros into the financial sector, like with the USD? A global currency reserve hegemony empire is a very different thing from a treaty-based coalition of random countries. Look at Canada right next door is doing, and their GDP/capita based on the CAD. The only serious competition is another currency hegemon, China. This is not a coincidence. The same was true historically with the British and even Dutch empires.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-09 15:23:07+00:00
My approach today is Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection and then keeping Google, Meta/Facebook, and Amazon logins sequestered to individual containers. At that point a lot of the worst ad networks will complain that you are using "an ad blocker" simply because most of their trackers fail and won't even bother showing ads.

(Then on mobile, similarly using Firefox on iOS, being heavy and fast on the "ask app not to track" buttons and keeping logins to first party apps only and almost never in either Safari or Firefox.)

Again, I use no real "ad blocker", just the above steps.

It's probably not an approach for everyone, and entails a bit of paranoia to operate, but I think it sends the right message that I don't mind untracked/untargeted ads and don't think companies deserve my unfiltered data.
by tobias3 | 2025-09-09 15:23:07+00:00
Usually I'd be with you. It's a big ship and even presidents have limited power to steer. But he is really doing all he can to sink it, so while one cannot blame him entirely, one can blame him:

- Firing a lot of federal employees

- Creating an uncertain business environment where no planning is possible via tariffs

That's just what he is breaking short term. There will be no way to reverse the long term damage his policies do.

I'm not arguing about goals, just looking at the execution.
by StillBored | 2025-09-09 15:23:11+00:00
Austerity has repeatably been shown to kill economic growth and trigger recessions/depressions. Yet for whatever reason there is one party in congress who's entire economic policy is basically austerity measures. Repeatedly, the ax man comes in and cuts spending that generates multiples of economic activity in return. This happens all the time cut a $1 here and it costs $4 over there kinds of things. Infrastructure is frequently in this category, delay maintenance until it can't be repaired, or simply fail to invest until a road/bridge is gridlock 18 hours a day, or the train is to scary to ride. The current admin is doing this 10x because they aren't being smart about what they cut, just doing it for political points.

Is there government waste? Sure, but that requires micro tweaks, aka instead of hiring more TSA agents maybe decide they shouldn't be randomly selecting every 3rd precheck user for additional screening/etc, or maybe decide that investing in even slower scanners isn't the right choice. Plus, in TX having seen some of these contracts the city/state gives out, the idea that private industry is more efficient is laughable. In some cases they are basically contracting out for millions of dollars a year a job that could be handled by one or two actual government employees paid less than $100k a year.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-09 15:23:41+00:00
> And there is an anti collectivist culture in the US now. In labor and in community, there's much less "let me give up my time for the community" and much more "how can I get mine" mindset.

Well. We doubled the labour pool with women entering it full-time, but we didn't double the value created. We increased it further with blind-eyeing illegal immigration. Both of those lower wages and increase costs, which mean there's less time available (if only one of you works, then the other has a lot of free time to build community).

I'll avoid moron-baiting by stating the obvious that women entering the workforce isn't a bad thing, etc etc, but it does have a certain economic effect, and it doesn't stop at the women who want to work. It pulls everyone in, as house prices are up-bidded by double incomes.
by Mirgova8 | 2025-09-09 15:23:46+00:00
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by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-09 15:23:48+00:00
Yeah, exactly. Commonly, the salts are stored right next to the hashes in the DB, because they serve their purpose even if the attacker knows what the salts are. By using a different salt for every password, the attacker needs execute a full "guess, hash, compare, repeat" attack on each user, as opposed to "guess, hash, compare against all user passwords, repeat" on the entire database.
Show HN: ParityDeals – Stripe billing without writing webhooks or custom scripts
by sachinneravath | 2025-09-09 15:23:51+00:00
Stripe is great, but is not simple.

You end up handling many webhooks, mirroring Stripe data, tracking subscription states, and hardcoding feature checks.

Managing upgrades, downgrades, migrations, overrides, and grandfathering often needs custom scripts.

ParityDeals keeps that billing logic out of your app.

Once you integrate ParityDeals SDK, you can manage everything from a single dashboard. No further code changes required.

I'd love to hear your feedback
Show HN: SwiftLake – Lightweight SQL Engine for Iceberg Tables
by mothukur | 2025-09-09 15:23:54+00:00
At Arcesium, we needed a way to run SQL-driven CRUD operations, manage slowly-changing dimensions, and handle schema evolution on our cloud data lakes—without the overhead of spinning up distributed clusters or relying on vendor-managed query services.

That’s why we built SwiftLake, a lightweight open-source library that brings Apache Iceberg and DuckDB together:

- Lightweight & cluster-free: Runs as a single Java service with embedded DuckDB—no distributed infra required. - Full CRUD and SCD1/SCD2 support: Reads, inserts/appends, updates, deletes, and merges with ACID guarantees. - Iceberg advantages: Schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel. - Developer-friendly APIs: Simple interfaces to embed directly into apps or data workflows. - Cloud storage support: Works with S3 today, with GCS and ADLS coming soon.

SwiftLake is a good fit for ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality checks, and analytical workloads where spinning up heavy distributed systems would be overkill.

SwiftLake is open source under Apache 2.0:

- GitHub: https://github.com/arcesium/swiftlake - Blog: https://medium.com/arcesium-engineering-blog/your-data-just-got-swifter-meet-swiftlake-7568cc85ee57

We’re just getting started—would love to hear your feedback and ideas from the HN community.
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by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-09 15:23:58+00:00
And there's no vaccine and no cure for the chronic form.

Other "fun" stuff we have in hill country too: Dengue, WNV, LACV, Chikungunya, Coccidioidomycosis (not a reportable illness), and C. hominivorax.

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by da_Buddha | 2025-09-09 15:24:12+00:00
This is false the article states it WAS previously at or under 400% poverty levels, it is NOW for every family regardless of income.

"This announcement fulfills the promise made by the governor and the New Mexico Legislature when they created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department in 2019. Since then, New Mexico has expanded access to no-cost child care to families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, reducing financial strain on tens of thousands of families.

With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income. This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child."

Quote from article.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-09 15:24:25+00:00
You pay the same fixed Premium fee per month whatever you do with YouTube.

You can quit YouTube for weeks or watch it 22h every day, you still pay the same. Same way you can exclusively watch non monetized streams or only watch top monetized creators, you'll be paying exactly the same.

The only difference will be how much YouTube gets to keep.
by motorest | 2025-09-09 15:24:46+00:00
> Stay at home moms do not provide a less valuable service than childcare providers.

I don't know how can anyone arrive at that conclusion.

> This policy appears to disincentives children staying with their mother even when it is preferred.

This assertion is baffling and far-fetched. There is only one beneficiary of this policy: families who desperately needed access to childcare but could not possibly afford it. With this policy, those who needed childcare but were priced out of the market will be able to access the service they needed. I don't think that extreme poverty and binding a mother to homecare is a valid incentive cor "children staying with their mother".
by renewiltord | 2025-09-09 15:25:37+00:00
This is surely meaningless. ASML's machines only work because of the US. This is not a geopolitical risk. This is a highly globalized process and all participants are significantly irreplaceable. If the US wants to harm ASML they just stop export of certain parts and materials. This would be utterly retarded because we're all on the same team here.
by bccdee | 2025-09-09 15:25:42+00:00
> Function domains are trivially enforceable through the type system when you have dependent types.

> It is not trivial to find what the correct settings will be before starting. Encountering situations like a job which runs fine for 2 days and then suddenly blows up is not particularly rare.

Somehow I doubt that the "not trivial" problem of finding correct settings before starting suddenly becomes "trivial" when you throw dependent types at it.

> (which isn't the same thing as a problem domain)

yeah bud i'm aware. I meant what I said. You're supposing that it's trivial to determine what the domain of the function in question is when the original post explicitly said otherwise. This is a falsehood about the problem domain.

> At worst it's to leave the thread of execution

Leave the thread and then do what? The stated solution to the problem, according to the original post, is to restart the program with new, manually-tweaked parameters, or to straight-up modify the code:

> The solution to that is typically changing to a numerical scheme more suited for your problem or tweaking the current scheme's parameters
by mberlove | 2025-09-09 15:25:42+00:00
I'm not sure I understand the claims being made. I'm curious if this is experiential / anecdotal or if widespread.

I think OSS is OSS always...being able to audit it makes it (reasonably) reliable, at least in the sense of security. I can look at the code, run checks, etc. That alone doesn't guarantee things can't crash and burn, but it's a great start compared to a closed-source solution, even if that solution stands on its promises, as reputation in software is an iffy prospect today.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-09 15:26:05+00:00
Team https://no-color.org/ for life

One will not be surprised to see that Chalk chooses its own path via the stunningly opaque FORCE_COLOR=0 and is all :fu: to people who suggest otherwise <https://github.com/chalk/chalk/issues/547#issuecomment-11268...> One will especially enjoy the "get bent" response because I discovered that one issue by, you know, searching the issues <https://github.com/chalk/chalk/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20NO_COLO...>
by yesfitz | 2025-09-09 15:26:12+00:00
You're wrong.

The literal next sentence after your quote:

"With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income. This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child." (Emphasis mine.)

I hope the irony of lamenting that others didn't read the article isn't lost on you.
by newscracker | 2025-09-09 15:26:15+00:00
Chat messages with some people can hold a lot of value. Nostalgia, recalling past incidents/events, missing someone, etc. Sometimes even the most trivial of messages can be looked at with fondness and longing.

I’m personally very glad that Signal finally implemented this. It’s been such a short sighted strategy to promote itself like a mass market messaging platform while not allowing people to keep, move and restore memories.

Since it’s opt-in, those who don’t want it don’t have to use it. They’re well served by the self-destructing message timers in chats.
by ponector | 2025-09-09 15:26:28+00:00
>> They will take all the Russian speaking parts like Odessa

That's a ruzzian dream.

Ruzzians can afford to take few villages near the front line, destroying every building in the process.

Odessa? Why not Kyiv? There is no way they can take any major city, especially one of the biggest one.

The best deal they can get is to keep occupied territory, without any recognition.
by Eikon | 2025-09-09 15:26:34+00:00
> It still sucks that S3 is ~$20/mo/TB basically "in perpetuity", while random SSD drives are ~$80/TB and I'd feel comfortable effectively amortizing them out at ~$20/yr for local storage instead of $20/mo for S3. :-/

ZeroFS will work with any S3 implementation that supports conditional writes. Even something a bit premium-priced like CloudFlare R2 goes for around $15/TB and has no egress costs. If you want to go for as cheap as possible, I'd throw minio or similar on a few cheap Hetzner storage servers https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx/
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 15:26:37+00:00
I don't think Trump is anyone's idea of a textbook conservative, especially not economically. He's a former democrat with populist instincts. Such politicians are often popular. It's frequently said in the UK that the median British voter is socially conservative and economically liberal.

It's true that the US subsidizes its road network. The effect is somewhat different though. If TfL doesn't get enough money in due to price controls then the network just degrades. If the US subsidizes its roads, the network can be maintained using subsidies. For it to be equivalent, roads would have to be privately owned but unable to charge the true cost of maintenance.
by Insanity | 2025-09-09 15:26:48+00:00
Yeah.. I've actually stopped playing games because of boss fights. In fairness, I generally don't like Single Player games, so the threshold for me to just quit one is actually pretty low, but an annoying Boss Fight is a surefire way to do so.

I played through Cyberpunk, and for each boss fight I just flipped the difficulty to the easiest possible setting. It's just not fun to me.

EDIT: apart from the bossfights in Cyberpunk, I actually did enjoy the game. Took me about 6 months to finish it though lol. (no DLC, and started about a year ago so when it was actually stable & playable).
by bgwalter | 2025-09-09 15:26:52+00:00
Airbus is more profitable than Boeing and has fewer accidents as of late. Maybe you don't mix up bolts in a door if you are more fresh mentally.

Companies are free to pay overtime, and the salaries would still be less than in SV. So you could absolutely found a software company in the EU with the same amount of work hours in a competitive manner and still pay less than in the US (under the assumption that the hours are really needed, which I doubt).

The real advantage that the US has is that they can more easily exploit users because there are no privacy laws.
by iainmerrick | 2025-09-09 15:27:05+00:00
I don't see "pietnas" anywhere; do you mean the "important_numbers" example from maratc?

If so, I think a trailing comma is the correct fix, as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168308

In this case I think the trailing comma is an improvement, so the formatter is steering you towards a better overall solution. However, even if you dislike the trailing comma, it's more important for the formatting to be consistent and robust, so I still think it's better to work within the limitations of the formatter.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-09 15:27:17+00:00
Post from July.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44634711

Amongst numerous discussions:

More assorted notes on Liquid Glass https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441279

Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658103

Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271630
by jspash | 2025-09-09 15:27:18+00:00
Agreed! I have a few around me, and to be honest I didn't even realise they were there for a few years until I really started exploring the area on foot. They are lovely.

So I don't know what the objections were about. You can easily ignore them, and just as easily enjoy them. But they are hardly going to "destroy the environment".

That said, they would of course destroy "some" environment. I'm not aware of the specific objections in this case. So I'll leave an open mind until I do.
by jofer | 2025-09-09 15:27:35+00:00
More likely, the date attribution in the imagery is incorrect.

As someone who works in that exact field (literally - I produce seamless mosaicked global maps and work for a satellite company), I can assure you that we don't and can't do this (generate "fake" imagery). Depending on country the exact satellite is licensed through, some areas may be lower-res (e.g. sats licensed via Canada can't provide imagery in active conflict zones above a certain resolution). The US govt can in principle demand we stop imaging for US-licensed satellites (though they never have so far as I know). A lot of regulatory details can vary based on the country 1) your satellites are licensed in, 2) your company is based in, and 3) where you're selling data.

However, none of the imagery is "fake". Our imagery sometimes feeds into google maps, and I don't know google's exact processing chain, so I can't rule out them doing something like that. However, I'd be absolutely shocked if they were for a lot of different reasons.

It's _way_ more likely that the tile data is incorrectly indicating 2025. E.g. they're using 3rd party data that doesn't have detailed scene provenance information in that area and are just showing "2025" in the absence of other information.

More interesting is the things China and some other countries do around datums. If you process things correctly, your satellite data won't align with their official street/infrastructure maps. Instead it will be randomly and smoothly shifted in different directions across the country. That's to make on-the-ground targeting based on official maps much more difficult. E.g. you can't reliably take one of the official maps and go "point the artillery at an azimuth of 321.5 degrees and target a location 4567 meters away". However, it makes things really tough when you're trying to provide a correctly processed "backdrop" mosaic to Chinese customers. (IIRC, this problem has gone away due to the ubiquity of OSM data or regulations changed in recent years. Still, China in particular has a lot of interesting regulations around map accuracy.)
by tomsmeding | 2025-09-09 15:27:41+00:00
It is sometimes possible to detect server-side whether the script is being run immediately with `| sh` or not. The reason is that `sh` only reads from its input as far as it got in the script, so it takes longer to get to the end than if you'd curl show the result in the terminal directly (or pipe it to a file).

A server can use this to maliciously give you malware only if you're not looking at the code.

Though your point about trust is valid.