MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bender | 2025-09-09 18:45:34+00:00
Here are some more words. If you are referring to the tools used to commit vicious acts, they are just that ... tools. Knives, guns, poisons, bombs, arrows, baseball bats, brass knuckles, shanks, broken bottles, scissors, ice picks, automatic crossbows, number 2 pencils.

Just recently a Ukranian refugee was slashed to death on a transit system. [1] The person committing this horific act had been recently arrested and released many times and was well known to have serious mental health issues and had attacked many others including their sister. Mentally unhealthy people will do harm. This individual should have been in an asylum or a SHU. The tool they use is just the method but the harm still happens. Give a crazy person a spoon they can take out several people on a subway. If anyone defends themselves or others we know that the defender in some states will be arrested and jailed which is disgusting.

I can have a firearm on a bus, in a bank, grocery store, gas station and nobody bats an eye because they know I am stable and most people here are armed. If anything people around me will feel more confortable knowing there will not be any soft targets. The only two places I am not allowed to carry my firearm are schools there are exceptions around this and bars. I don't go into bars anyway. This varies by state. [2] People should leave and defund those dangerous states that disallow protecting ones self, their family and others. If I was unstable and acting out whatever is left of me would be put away or down for good and I support this.

This is the elephant that many will not talk about or even admit. John Stewart had a pretty good take on this. [3]

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgknxyl77x6o

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6KZY4msgUY [video][8 mins]
by hellojesus | 2025-09-09 18:46:03+00:00
Let's go with this (I pay a little more than $24k/yr/kid for care now).

Does the influx of gov mandated childcare centers reduce the annual expense for parents? If so, it does so at the cost to the current workers by reducing their salaries.

If not, now you've put every taxpayer on the hook for 24k+admin_expenses per child per year. That is an immediate blow to everyone except those benefiting more than their increased tax burden.

The benefit is lower wages for those competing against the new laborers and likely higher government tax inflows?
by throw0101d | 2025-09-09 18:46:10+00:00
> - Super easy to get esims while traveling. e.g. in Mexico i downloaded an app while still in the airport and paid $5 with apple pay and instantly activated a 1 month esim.

This can be done with physical+esim, which my iPhone SE3 has.

Is there a distinct advantage to eSIM-only, with no physical slot, for travel?

> - You can have multiple esimss. With physical sims you are limited to the physical number of sim slots on your phone, usually 1 or at most 2. With esim there is no such restriction.

If you already have 1-eSIM capability, would it be hard to go to >1-eSIM+physical?
by dragontamer | 2025-09-09 18:46:26+00:00
> If there's a recent revision of BLS figures showing a correction of PLUS 900k jobs, I'd love to see it.

I know right? It's like the new numbers from the BLS are shit or something.

Trump fires the last guy, and then a month later they claim that Joe Biden lost 900,000++ jobs. A correction of this size that has never happened before.

It's like firing the head of statistics ruins your reputation and intimidates the other accountants into making up numbers that favor your politics.
by pegasus | 2025-09-09 18:46:37+00:00
It's not shipping infinite times, the number of views (and hence, cost to stream) are proportional to the fees withheld. Whether 45% is too much, I can't say, don't think it can be determined apriori. It kinda does make sense to me that it would be more than the app store fees, but I also feel those app store fees are too high as well.
by apparent | 2025-09-09 18:47:27+00:00
Ditto. This adds 10.5mm of width, but shaves 4mm of depth (2mm on each side, as measured when holding in one hand). So the net increase is only 6mm. I won't be pre-ordering one of these, since I want to feel it in-store prior to purchasing.

The weight is also significantly (in percentage terms) greater.
by matesz | 2025-09-09 18:47:29+00:00
I’m still using iPhone 12 mini running iOS 26 beta and it’s good enough. OS is definitely not polished, some of the design choices don’t even make sense but in general I believe it’s the right direction - spatial + maxing out visual looks.

Being able to turn Liquid Glass off to sth like flat design would be nice but this probably won’t happen.

Now when it comes to the event itself, it felt so cartoonish.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-09 18:47:41+00:00
Why? This is something that plays into all of Apple's supposed strengths: Privacy/no strict cloud dependency/on-device compute, hardware/software optimization while owning the stack and combine that with good UI/UX for a broad target audience without sacrificing too much for the power users. OP never said that local AI would be the only topic a new CEO should focus on.
by cyberax | 2025-09-09 18:47:51+00:00
The keyword here is "should" :) Back then DynamoDB also had a problem with scaling the data can be easily split into partitions, but it's never merged back into fewer partitions.

So if you scaled up and then down, you might have ended with a lot of partitions that got only a few IOPS quota each. It's better now with burst IOPS, but it still is a problem sometimes.
by brandonb | 2025-09-09 18:47:51+00:00
Every 20 mmHg increase in your systolic blood pressure, or 10 mmHg increase in diastolic blood pressure, doubles your mortality. And only 23% of people with high blood pressure have it under control.

Pretty massive implications for public health.

I wrote about some of the science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure monitoring and public health implications here:

https://www.empirical.health/blog/apple-watch-blood-pressure...
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-09 18:47:57+00:00
Not the GP, but here is an analysis of the BLS data arguing the opposite[0]. Short answer, BLS data gets revised all the time and the supposedly smoking gun revision that was used to justify firing the BLS head was not even in the top 50 most extreme corrections.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont...
by mike-cardwell | 2025-09-09 18:47:59+00:00
I made this about 6 years ago. It's a python script that acts as a wrapper to the npm command. When you run something like "npm install" or "npm start" or whatever, it actually runs the command inside a docker or podman container.

Minimum stuff that is needed is mounted into the container depending on the mount command being run, with stuff being mounted read-only when possible.

So you basically don't need to worry about your ~/.ssh or ~/.bitcoin folders being stolen by a malicious npm package anymore. And don't need to worry about one installing some persistent command or keylogger in the background.

Thought it was relevant given recent news
by neodymiumphish | 2025-09-09 18:48:01+00:00
> Why is it Fitness app only? Odd restriction.

It's not... The compatible third-party apps part means basically any app integrating with the API, presumably.

> ... foam-assisted tips

I had a set of foam-integrated silicone tips on my Airpods Pro 2 and I LOVED them. All the fit benefits of foam with the easy cleaning of silicone! Wish they'd release first-party versions for the Airpods Pro 2, cause that's the only change I'd really like. Single charge battery usage and ANC are great, but I get by just fine with the AP2 (ANC is already excellent, so I'm really curious what the AP3s sound like in comparison).
by BeetleB | 2025-09-09 18:48:14+00:00
Are you sure those texts are from private equity?

I've dabbled with RE investments and hang out with those clubs. It's highly likely the origin of those mailings/texts is from an average person like you and me (most of whom have a full time job earning less than most SW engineers). They are doing RE as a side business, and are paying a service to send out those mailers/texts.

They're looking for distressed homeowners (e.g. people who are about to lose the house due to unpaid property taxes, etc).

They've been doing this for decades, but the easier availability of data due to the Internet, as well as the growth of online services, has made it much more accessible to the average Joe. It requires very little capital to send out those mailers/texts.

If you're getting more of these now than 20 years ago, it's because RE investing has become a lot more democratized/accessible.
by jameshart | 2025-09-09 18:48:24+00:00
The fact that most people can only get exposure to the housing market by taking a massive loan to perform a leveraged buy-in, at which point a single asset forms the bulk of their capital portfolio, is not a good way to build generational wealth, and it certainly shouldn’t be the only way to a middle class life.

It’s honestly possible that people would be better off putting their money into a diversified investment fund that includes a spread portfolio of housing among other assets, so they can benefit from that growth. If your 401K includes Blackrock assets, you’re still benefitting from overall housing market growth, without that being tied up in also being the building you live in.

The big win buying a house historically represents – for those for whom it works out – is of course that you can buy a house with borrowed money on a fixed rate, pay off the loan over 30 years, and pocket the appreciation in the asset over the loan value. That’s an amazing deal if you’re lucky enough to buy and sell the right house at the right time and get your loan at the right interest rate. But it definitely doesn’t work out for everyone.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-09 18:48:33+00:00
It's not that strong of a claim. 6 years ago I noticed stuff on the net that is now marketed as the cool, new thing. The quality is quite something compared to what individuals are banging out with publicly available tools, with or without their own training; a lot of which looks nice.

It's so annoying to try to find adequate words, but I have this weird feeling that something is off, something that isn't worth thinking about "because future" and at the same time ruins way too much fun to not be concerning.
by madamelic | 2025-09-09 18:48:36+00:00
I love using emojis but can't stand what it has turned into.

I have a Boomer opinion when it comes to emojis: there are just too many.

At some point we need to cut a lot of emojis or come up with a better way to insert them into conversations.

We are at nearly 4,000 emojis. Scrolling through a list is bad UX, remembering or trying to think of keywords to pull one up is bad UX.

I think we could cut it down to 2,000 easily, no one would notice. I would venture to guess that 98% of all emoji usage is contained to 200 emojis with these very esoteric emojis getting no usage outside of accidental or emoji spam/copy-pasta.

Here's _my_ proposal: We have a list of deletions. Every year, if an emoji is not used above a certain threshold, it's deleted permanently and the concept of the emoji is banned for 5 years.
by iamtedd | 2025-09-09 18:48:37+00:00
I missed that it's a "personal" blog, but they prominently describe their position as the emoji subcommittee chair, so it's more or less an official outlet.

Northern bias, yes. What about emoji or Unicode is tied to the weather? Why not use more universal time markers? If dates or months are truly too precise for this timeline, quarters are good enough. They could also just have a month range or "approx".

Being near the equator (whether northern side or southern), I don't have an innate sense of seasons at all, so have to remember what people are referring to when they use these terms.
by boston_clone | 2025-09-09 18:48:44+00:00
Start at the Fourth Amendment. (I guess the First would be more appropriate place to start, but the Fourth is quite pertinent.)

Also,

> [...] if you disagree with me and think the government is fascist and thus can't be trusted not to throw you in prison just for saying things they don't like

this is happening:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/tourist-refused-entr...

edited for phrasing / completeness
by dpkirchner | 2025-09-09 18:49:02+00:00
It would be extremely easy:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna206917

> Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.

I don't know how Republicans continue to support this administration. Maybe they just don't know he's aiding criminals?
by michaelmior | 2025-09-09 18:49:14+00:00
> Why does providing assistance have to mean centralized control of what assistance looks like?

I generally agree with you, but often the reason that these programs work economically is that those who don't choose to use them still contribute. There are (at least) three different categories: (1) caregivers who will care for their child themselves regardless of whether or not free care is available elsewhere, (2) caregivers who will find care elsewhere regardless of the cost, and (3) caregivers who will make use of free care if available, or otherwise, care for their child themselves.

I think the group (1) has a tendency to be higher income. It's certainly not true of everyone in that group, but I would wager that a significant number of people in that group do not need the financial assistance. Those people not using the free resource, but still contributing to funding it is what makes it economically viable.
by bunderbunder | 2025-09-09 18:49:25+00:00
C has a lot of characteristics beyond simple lack of a standard automatic package manager that complicate the situation.

The more interesting comparison to me is, for example, my experience on C# projects that do and do not use NuGet. Or even the overall C# ecosystem before and after NuGet got popular. Because then you're getting closer to just comparing life with and without a package manager, without all the extra confounding variables from differing language capabilities, business domains, development cultures, etc.
by yinznaughty | 2025-09-09 18:49:31+00:00
If you rotate burner sims you are probably mostly fine but yeah with enough effort they can do a larger geo analysis with the IMSIs. Only IMSI (the sim id) is in the clear on LTE afaik so you might be okay if you are not otherwise of interest.

Just turning the phone off and wrapping it tight in aluminum foil is almost certainly better.

They can and do have the ability to MITM traffic though. There is not anything to stop someone with the hardware from doing it and everyday that passes it seems the rules matter less and less.
by erikw | 2025-09-09 18:49:42+00:00
I'd be curious to understand their rationale for not making a small, reasonably priced phone like the iPhone SE used to be. I probably will be leaving the iPhone ecosystem the next time I have to buy a smartphone (even though I use a Mac, iPad, and Airpods, which all work together really well) because I'm uninterested in using a large phone.

Thinking through my own use case, I just use my phone for messaging, maps, and the occasional app, so I'm not going to need a big screen for consuming content. I also don't want to spend a lot of money on a phone, since I don't need any fancy features. So perhaps that intersection of use cases doesn't make much sense to target?
by josephg | 2025-09-09 18:50:04+00:00
My point is a good crdt should let you tune that on a per field / per instance basis. Sometimes you want automatic “good enough” merging. Sometimes you want user intervention. When you want each is not obvious at the moment. We haven’t really explored the UX state space yet.

In general the automatic merging works pretty well most of the time. Where things go wrong is - for example - when people think they can put JSON data into a text crdt and have the system behave well. Instead the automatic merging breaks the rules of JSON syntax and the system falls over.
by gkoberger | 2025-09-09 18:50:06+00:00
What Dropbox has been doing to Paper has been so sad to me. I've been a daily user for almost a decade (and Hackpad before that), and their recent move into combining it into Dropbox itself has caused me to almost completely stop.

I get what they're doing... unifying everything into one system. I get it. But I can't find any of my docs anymore. When I go to paper.dropbox.com, where there use to be thousands of docs, there's now nothing.

The app wasn't great, but it was better than nothing.
by sfink | 2025-09-09 18:50:14+00:00
No.

Let's say our initial boost got it up to 0.1c. After 20 years, it's gone 2 light years. If we make our space-based laser aperture really big, let's say 1km, then the light reaching our probe is something like a 25000km wide radius. That's not going to power anything.

If you slow down the initial 0.1c, then pretty quickly you're better off not sending it out at all and getting a bigger boost from your giant space laser being close for the initial acceleration.

The diffraction limit is annoying.
by bbor | 2025-09-09 18:50:15+00:00
Sorry, I was unclear — that racism comment was tongue in cheek. Regardless of political leanings, I figured we can all agree that racism is bad!

I generally agree re:chatGPT in that it doesn’t have moral standing on its own, but still… it does speak. Being mean to a fork is a lot different from being mean to a chatbot, IMHO. The list of things that speak just went from 1 to 2 (humans and LLMs), so it’s natural to expect some new considerations. Specifically, the risk here is that you are what you do.

Perhaps a good metaphor would be cyberbullying. Obviously there’s still a human on the other side of that, but I do recall a real “just log off, it’s not a real problem, kids these days are so silly” sentiment pre, say, 2015.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-09 18:50:19+00:00
?? Zig's compiler does way more, from automatically generating bindings to C files to including the entire C toolchain in its executable to running Zig build files (which allow you to do stuff like fetch files from the Internet) and being a compiler.

Odin's compiler does more than rustc or clang, about the same as javac and less than Zig or Go's executables.
by IVentures25 | 2025-09-09 18:50:27+00:00
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by terramex | 2025-09-09 18:50:41+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

> Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products.

> Often used as a transport for Matter (the combination being known as Matter over Thread), the protocol has seen increased use for connecting low-power and battery-operated smart-home devices.

> Thread uses 6LoWPAN, which, in turn, uses the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol with mesh communication (in the 2.4 GHz spectrum), as do Zigbee and other systems. However, Thread is IP-addressable, with cloud access and AES encryption. A BSD-licensed open-source implementation of Thread called OpenThread is available from and managed by Google.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-09 18:50:45+00:00
As an oldtimer (Gen-X), I can't even with that mode of use. My thumb (is that what you use?) cramps up when trying to do that even a little.. I guess 30+ years of typing will do that.. The best I've done one-handed is type in my pin and launch an app and click an icon or two.

As it is, I hold my S21 with left hand, type with index finger of right - it's abysmal in terms of performance, but it's all I got.. landscape with both thumbs is usually worse because of such little lookahead / lookbehind - I can barely read the line I'm typing on - and fat thumbs. My kids do it all the time, but, well, their little girlish fingers (they are female) seem to manage it and they're quite quick at it.

My favorite phone (at least in terms of idea, execution wasn't perfect) was the Motorola Photon Q - full-size with slide-out keyboard. At least I could somewhat type quickly even if the keyboard wasn't great. Alas, 2012..

With a newish phone? I can probably type 10-20x as fast on my MS Natural keyboard (only one I can use for more than 30-40 minutes without RSI getting bad).. No wonder I don't "live on my phone" - I use it when necessary, and prefer my 40"+ 4K screen + real keyboard.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-09 18:51:02+00:00
> The quality of most text msgs is higher than what passes for “quality literature” in many lit classrooms.

First: Your HS kids hang out with a different crowd than my HS kids :-)

Second: This is about reading ability (comprehension, etc), not literature. Whether the quality of a text message is superior/inferior to whatever they use in literature classes is irrelevant.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 18:51:02+00:00
> You must have missed the criteria for inclusion that list, which states that games are only eligible if they appear on "all time" best lists, e.g. not just "Best Game of 2017" or "Best PC Games".

I, in fact, did not miss that. If you look at that article, it references over 90 lists. By my count, a bit under half of the lists were written after the release of Hollow Knight. Of those lists, Hollow Knight appears in only seven of them, which is tied for the lowest number of appearances of any game in that list released in 2017 onward other than Baldur's Gate 3, which was released in the last year the list has entries for.

> i.e. there already is agreement across all time.

Eh, fewer than a fifth of lists with what appear to usually be 30-100 games each doesn't seem like good evidence of agreement to me. There are degrees of agreement, and I think "widely" implies a pretty high one.

I think GamingBolt having Hollow Knight on their 2022 list at #14, but then it being completely absent from their 2023 and 2024 lists is testimony of how silly these lists are in the first place.
by tptacek | 2025-09-09 18:51:14+00:00
Both approaches revealed the same conclusion: Memory Integrity Enforcement vastly reduces the exploitation strategies available to attackers. Though memory corruption bugs are usually interchangeable, MIE cut off so many exploit steps at a fundamental level that it was not possible to restore the chains by swapping in new bugs. Even with substantial effort, we could not rebuild any of these chains to work around MIE. The few memory corruption effects that remained are unreliable and don’t give attackers sufficient momentum to successfully exploit these bugs.

This is great, and a bit of a buried lede. Some of the economics of mercenary spyware depend on chains with interchangeable parts, and countermeasures targeting that property directly are interesting.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-09 18:51:49+00:00
Nate Silver has a previous analysis of this data

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trumps-jobs-data-denialism-wont...

The monthly revisions are historically all over the place, up and down. My 2024 count says six months were revised up and six were revised down.