MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by g-b-r | 2025-09-25 16:48:49+00:00
> Intermediate commits can have meaningful commit messages if the author chooses, but they could also just be labeled "wip" and still be useful to the author.

> It's really easy for a note someone writes to themselves to be useful to that person without being useful to other people.

After a few months it will probably be as useful to you as to anyone else; if you only use commits as some sort of help while developing, you might as well just squash them before making a PR.

> What if the author experimented with a lot of approaches that turned out to be dead ends? Is it a good use of the reviewer's time to review all the failed attempts? Or is the author supposed to throw those away and reconstruct an imaginary commit history that looks like their clean, tidy thought process?

Yes, except that it doesn't matter if it's their thought process or not; it doesn't take a ton of time to reorder your commits, if you had some care for them in the first place.

It doesn't make much sense to place failed attempts in a series of commits (and of their reverts), just go back to the last good commit if something was a dead end (and save the failed attempt in a branch/tag, if you want to keep it around).

> If someone sends me a short story they wrote and asks for feedback, I can give them feedback without also demanding to see every prior draft and an explanation for every change they made until it reached the version I'm reviewing.

It's not the individual commits themselves that you need to review (although you can do that, if you place a lot of value to good histories); going through each commit, if they're indeed not just random snapshots but have been made thoughtfully, can let you review the PR a lot faster, because they'll be small changes described by the commits' messages.
by cyborgrising | 2025-09-25 16:48:50+00:00
Even if you have personal priorities for privacy, surely you can understand that many user's first expectation for a web browser is for websites to work correctly.

We've kind of lost the plot if we get too far away from the core notion that a web browser is for correctly and completely rendering websites. The user population don't use web browsers to hide, they use it to look at the internet and do internet work. If a browser has any problems doing this, it not going to be relevant.
by woodruffw | 2025-09-25 16:49:16+00:00
For what it's worth, I agree about the Islamophobia. However, the OP in question does have a consistent track record of collectively blaming Jews (particularly whichever ones they think are Ashkenazi) for everything going on in Israel (which, notably, is not majority Ashkenazi). Their adjacent response reflects this.

(It's sad that I have to say this, but to ensure that my position on I/P is clear: Israel is committing war crimes and is currently litigating a campaign that isn't justifiable on strategic much less basic humanitarian terms.)
by belorn | 2025-09-25 16:49:32+00:00
I would also like to read the source for the last claim of that statement. The break-in is well established in multiple sources, and also documented on Wikipedia (citing one of those sources). CNBC also add that they planted microphones (using phones) as listening devices.

"In the aftermath of the protests, Smith claimed that the protestors had blocked people out of the office, planted listening devices in the form of phones, and refused to leave until they were removed by police. " (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/microsoft-fires-two-employee...)

Protestors (in associated with the firing) also projected "Microsoft powers genocide" on the office wall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft).
by foxyv | 2025-09-25 16:49:38+00:00
To be honest, the new foveated rendering/eye tracking, makes headsets WAY better. Display resolutions and lenses have gotten way better too. But the investment has slacked off really hard. I love my H2 Reverb even more, now that I have an open source driver for it, after Windows discontinued it. However, a lot of companies just aren't that interested anymore.

Another problem is, that despite headsets getting better, the prices haven't come down. They are just extremely expensive devices that can't really compromise on quality while maintaining good results.
by parliament32 | 2025-09-25 16:50:02+00:00
> The days of people running and maintaining their own are pretty much long gone

This is very much a myth. There's a lot of FUD around how mail is "hard", but it's much less complicated than, say, running and maintaining a k8s cluster (professionally, I'm responsible for both at my org, so I can make this comparison with some authority).

Honestly `apt install postfix dovecot` gets you 90% of the way there. Getting spambinned isn't a problem in my experience, as long as you're doing SPF and DKIM and not using an often-abused IP range (yes, this means you can't use AWS). The MTA/MDA software is rock-solid and will happily run for years on end without human intervention. There really isn't anything to maintain on a regular basis apart from patches/updates every few months.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-25 16:50:07+00:00
It's actually not particularly a free market.

Check out Certificates of Need. You need one to open a new hospital in an area.

The other existing hospitals in the area get to comment on how it would affect their business and if it would cause them to reduce their investment.

This is all framed as "ensuring communities are appropriately served with healthcare capacity," but CoNs were an idea that was conceived by and lobbied for by ... hospital owners.
by pmdr | 2025-09-25 16:50:44+00:00
> The Internet was turned into a slop warehouse well before LLMs became a thing

I suppose that's thanks to Google and their search algos favoring ad-ridden SEO spam. LLMs are indeed more appealing and convenient. But I fear that legitimate websites (ad-supported or otherwise) that actually provide useful information will be on the decline. Let's just hope then that updated information will find its way into LLMs when such websites are gone.
by cs702 | 2025-09-25 16:50:51+00:00
I sorta knew much of what the author writes, but it's still a bit shocking to see it laid out, in hard numbers, that many consumers at the lower end of the income spectrum no longer matter in the US economy:

> What we do see are troubling signs that low- and middle-income consumers are fading in the economic data. The top 10% of earners now account for about half of consumer spending, the highest share since at least 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. The top earners’ share of spending has trended higher since the early 1990s from a low of 35%, matching a rise in income inequality over the same time. Meanwhile, the bottom 60% of wage earners account for less than a fifth of consumption, down from more than 26% three decades ago.

Having such a large portion of the population not matter anymore, from an economic standpoint, doesn't seem... sustainable.
by burkaman | 2025-09-25 16:51:06+00:00
Report: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing...

HN discussion about a similar company exposing private information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349115

The apps are ESHYFT, ShiftKey, ShiftMed, and CareRev. CareRev is a YC company (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/carerev), so maybe the founders are around to explain the technical details of their desperation algorithm or why they allow employers to cancel shifts with 2 hours of notice.
by andy99 | 2025-09-25 16:51:08+00:00
It's pretty heavily dark patterned for me. When you go checkout there is a big prime banner inviting you to click now that looks the the default "next screen" button, and smaller fainter text below saying "continue without enjoying prime benefits".

Something similar happens again with the shipping. I only ever buy enough to get free shipping, but it never defaults to that, it tries to trick you by defaulting to paid, and then when you scroll to change your shipping to free, it again makes "join prime" the most default looking option to pick.

I'm pretty sure in the past there was an extra nag somewhere but the above is my most recent experience. Maybe legal but certainly feels like you're dealing with a scammer.
by throwayay5837 | 2025-09-25 16:51:08+00:00
> Indeed, in most indigenous languages, there is no word for prison.

I think it's disingenuous to argue that a certain type of misery did not exist because it doesn't map 1:1 to our label of it. It's at least sloppy.

Noble savages are a fictional creation[0]:

> A large, horticultural population near Lake Victoria, the Gusii lived in clans that were territorially separated from other clan territories by areas of uninhabited bush. Because these clans were exogamous, men had to seek wives from neighboring clans. Many societies have chosen marriage partners in the same way without social conflict, but Gusii clans were so hostile to one another that most had feuded in the past, and animosities continued to run high. A Gusii proverb said, “Those whom we marry are those whom we fight.” This presented the Gusii with a dilema, but instead of attempting to soothe these tensions as other societies with a similar form of marriage have done, the Gusii made matters worse.

> Both before and after marriage, Gusii men were said to have been so frustrated sexually that they resorted to rape. Whether sexual frustration was the cause or not, the fact is that the Gusii committed rape almost four times as often as the average rate in the United States. In 1937, there were so many rapes that the British colonial government had to threaten military action, and in 1950 there were so many convictions for rape that there were not enough prison facilities to hold the offenders. Not surprisingly, married life itself was always distant and often hostile. The antagonism between Gusii men and women clearly caused considerable stress, and if it served any useful social purpose, it has yet to be identified.

[0]: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sick-societies-by-robert...
by jrm4 | 2025-09-25 16:51:36+00:00
I'm going to generally side with with ops "bitterness" here.

Sure, I don't want bad blood -- but like, I get why their tone is this way; this ain't just McDonalds vs Burger King.

Op is correctly frustrated at the "consumer is always right" mindset folks like you show. This is more important than consumer choice and (as someone who uses Firefox as a daily driver and will just bounce to Chromium as needed) "fixing a billion little bugs that you see" isn't as near as important as promoting the ideology more?
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-25 16:51:51+00:00
It's not about optimism. It is well established in the industry that Tesla's hardware-stack gives them 98% accuracy at the very most. But those voices are drowned by the marketing bravado.

In the case of Musk it has worked out. His lies have earned him a fortune and now he asks Tesla to pay him out with a casual 1 trillion paycheck.
by jimmydoe | 2025-09-25 16:51:55+00:00
Good point, but I guess we are stuck here.

I don't think Cloudflare did anything major wrong, most of what they offer have plenty of alternatives, but Cloudflare is able to do a lot for free which really isn't their fault.

There are complain about its cache's captcha, I get it, ideally it should not discriminate any human user, but IMO it's an economical problem unless we collectively decide what they do is public utilities.
by komali2 | 2025-09-25 16:52:09+00:00
It is interesting to me that all this sweat and tears are spent deliberating over the use of a word in faraway courts while all of us can see with our eyes the horrors Palestinians are subjected to by the occupying IDF. "We didn't say there was a genocide! We acknowledged the plausibility of the possibility that potentially maybe an investigation might perhaps occur into the possibility of maybe Palestinians being able to experience a genocide by someone."

It reminds me of a conversation I had with an Israeli a few weeks back. He asked me, "if what Israel is doing is so bad, why does nobody stop it?"

A great question. I don't know. And the bodies of children continue to pile up.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 16:52:28+00:00
I think of constitution as a contract between the citizens and the state and the (judiciary?)

Like, constitution both defines the rights of citizens and the limits of those rights and the same goes for the states.

I feel as if the creators of constitutions think that it is a set of checks and balances...

Just as if how a citizen violates something written in the constitution, the state can punish it.

In the same manner, I believe that the constitution thought that if the state violates some constitutional right of citizen, then citizens can point that out and (punish?) the state as the legitimacy of state is through that constitution which they might be breaking...

I concur (fancy word for believe which I wanted to share lol) you are talking about america. The thing is, revolutions are often messy and so much things are happening in america that I think that people are just overwhelmed and have even forgotten all the stuff happening in the past... Like tarrifs were huge thing, then epstein news then this I think autism thing by trump.

Like, the amount of political discourse is happening less and idk, oh shit, just remembered the uh person deporting thing which was illegal which was done anyway

If these things happened in isolation, they would all have huge actions against govt. but they are happening back to back and so everyone's just kinda silent I think, frankly I believe overwhelmed.

I believe that just as in nepal, in america everyone is whining on social media but nobody's taking action. Nepal blocked social media and so people in nepal were kinda forced to take action irl and it worked kinda nice in the end tbh

So maybe its social media which is enabling this thing.... which is funny to me as I am doing the same thing right now lol

All for sweet internet points tho.
by mbesto | 2025-09-25 16:52:30+00:00
PE gets a bad rap and for very correct reasons (especially at the large cap where financial engineering is rampant). However, there are a ton of examples where PE does add value and the customer experience improves. However it's impossible for me to list them because your definition of customer experience improvement might be very different than mine. So this point is generally very moot unless we can all agree on a standard quality metric for "customer experience".
by krapp | 2025-09-25 16:52:31+00:00
>What posts like this neglect to consider is that the overwhelming majority of people who use social media apps didn't use the internet during the "old" era.

They don't neglect to consider that at all - what people are nostalgic for is the web before it became mainstream and got ruined by muggles and corporations, when was just an exclusive club for nerds. Implicit to the concept of resurrecting the "Old Web" is recreating spaces that will never appeal to the masses. That's a feature, not a bug.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-25 16:52:37+00:00
My big complaints are with the default experience in how that affects everyone's expectaions, but I do this sometimes, yes. The VS Code "GitHub Pull Requests and Issues" extension has gotten really good and gives a lot of tools for this. If using github.com (and not GHE) you can even use the "." shortcut in any PR to open that PR in github.dev, which is a web version of VS Code (that you can Settings Sync) to review the PR there without even needing the local checkout. But also that's a bit of a "hidden shortcut" and very few developers know about it, which again gets back to what the GitHub interface provides by default and how it makes things discoverable being something of an underlying issue.
by fxtentacle | 2025-09-25 16:52:49+00:00
Eww...

Meta is dead in the water with most gamers after they locked people out of their purchases and tried to shove a mandatory facebook login down everyone's throat.

Pimax is famous for over-promising and under-delivering - if they deliver at all, that is. Reddit is full of people complaining that they still haven't received their purchases from the launch before the last new announcement.

Apple’s Vision Pro was the price of a used car and you need to voluntarily lock yourself into Apple's ecosystem and pay 30% of all revenue to Apple for the privilege, so VR's biggest market (which is gaming) just said FY Apple and that's why it's one of the products with the highest return rate ever.

So you have Spyware vs. Vaporware vs. Masochism as your options. What a surprise that sales are down !!!! (not really)

I am in the market for a high-res VR headset for gaming. But there isn't any product for me to buy. Quest and Apple don't play well with PC. And for Pimax there's no shop actually selling them. (The article seems to agree, too. They have sales links to Meta and Apple, but no link for Pimax.)
by pessimizer | 2025-09-25 16:53:15+00:00
> Broke into homes and burned babies to death? Beheaded people? Pulled fetuses from pregnant women?

It's important to note that these things never happened, and you're still repeating them years later. The only baby that died on 10/7 was a 10 month old hit by crossfire.

I have no idea of the third, and though I feel sure it's wrong judging by the rest of what you have said, I feel obligated to check. Try it.
by justin66 | 2025-09-25 16:53:21+00:00
> If so there is one issue with that. It is more tax efficient to have lower earnings and disguise profit and reinvestment as R&D cost.

Stock prices are not just historically high relative to earnings (using CAPE or not), they're historically high relative to book value or sales. There might be a clever effort to not have earnings that are justified by share price, for tax reasons. Is there similarly a clever effort to not have sales that are justified by share price?

> due for correction

That's pretty hard to predict.
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-09-25 16:53:32+00:00
I haven't seen this mentioned, but I immediately thought this could be a great tool for folks with ADHD. The potential for seeing what kinds of things regularly trigger distraction (I know, everything, right?) and any patterns that exist (i.e. every time I make a git commit, I go check Hacker News and lose 15 minutes). As well as being able to review day that was captured automatically is huge. The best success I had with tracking what I did was when I used to use TimeRescue to ensure I had accurate record of hours for clients, but every attempt to use anything that requires manual entry fails very quickly (either too distracting everytime I use it, or I literally just forget to use it).

Going a step further, "real time" (given processing delay) to help stay on task when the focus has shifted to something unrelated (maybe allow the individual to define this or say yes/no to train the prompts as it goes).

Anyways, it looks great. I also liked the _idea_ of Windows Recall, so to see something like this that can be privacy first is really nice.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-25 16:53:41+00:00
Ah thanks, I did some digging and found some screenshots from 2017 and 2022 respectively:

https://i.insider.com/6226b418990863001998d7a9?width=1200&fo...

https://i.insider.com/6226b454dcce010019a7243a?width=1200&fo...

The "no thanks" on the second one does seem particularly egregious. I'm curious if there's a screenshot of the current one you describe.
by Bjorkbat | 2025-09-25 16:53:46+00:00
It really is crazy how much was lost when Apple killed Flash. Absolutely miss Newgrounds. It's still around of course, I'm reflecting more on the vibes when it was in its heyday. Unbelievable the games people were making with Flash back then and how it spawned the careers of a ton of indie darlings. Also, not Flash at all, but does anyone remember Exit Mundi? Absolute gold.

Honestly, I kind of look back on blogging unfavorably. Before that people made websites to showcase their interests and hobbies, and because of that even the most basic looking websites could have a lot of "color" to them. Then blogging became a thing and people's websites became bland and minimalist. Arguably blogging culture is as responsible for the death of creativity on the internet as much as the constraints of mobile-friendly web design and Apple's aforementioned killing of Flash.
by myth_drannon | 2025-09-25 16:53:58+00:00
I guess time to buy more Oracle or Google stocks? They can easily provide more than needed, especially Oracle which is very friendly to Israel and Ellison is a big supporter of IDF (large donations to "Friends of the IDF" non-profit).

Here is a link in case anyone wants to donate https://www.fidf.org to this amazing organization.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-25 16:53:58+00:00
Getting away from the debate around your details (most of which didn't happen) ...

A singular terrorist event is not the same as an multi-decade occupation, on-going theft of land, discrimination, annexation plans, and - not least - a 2 year long genocide of tens of thousands of civilians.

So, no, that isn't what Hamas did.
by aranelsurion | 2025-09-25 16:54:04+00:00
My anecdata is, I live in EU and have their Phone, Pad and Watch.

Right now I’m not bothered by whatever “features” that are already delayed, but if the list gets larger, and their competitors find a way of not delaying them (I think they will), I’ll simply jump ship the next time I upgrade and that’s that.

As a consumer I can’t care less about Apple’s woes around DMA.
by nick__m | 2025-09-25 16:54:45+00:00
Training is a lot longer than that in Québec, radiology is a specialty, so they must first do their 5 years in medicine, followed by a 5 year diagnostic radiology residency program. And it's frequently followed by a 2 years fellowship.

So 5 + 5 + [0,2] is [10,12] years of training.
by welcome_dragon | 2025-09-25 16:54:52+00:00
The commenter spoke specifically about the lone hospital in an area. e.g. rural areas

Hospitals in those areas tend to not offer as high quality of care as most urban/suburban hospital.

When the only hospital in an area closes, it's not just a matter of going slightly farther out for care. In many cases, it's just not possible for people.

This is a big issue with the idea of socialized health care as it could happen in America. Right now we already have a two (or three) tiered healthcare system: one for the "rich" meaning urban and suburban and one for the "poor, remote, and/or rural".

When people talk about socialized health care they rarely if ever talk about how to keep such a system from getting worse.

So when a rural hospital closes down, you can expect a higher death rate in the local population. Not to mention the economic impact of losing what is probably the highest paying employer around and all the fallout that comes from that.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-25 16:55:03+00:00
fwiw, amending the US constitution generally requires a 2/3 majority in both houses of congress to propose the amendment, and then further ratification by 3/4 of the states make the amendment law. it's a fairly long process, and amendments sometime get bogged down and die in the 2nd phase.

(there is another process which calls for a convention, but such a convention would have broad powers to change many things and so far the "two sides" (US rules tilt toward two parties rather than more) have been too scared of what might happen to do that)
by samweb3 | 2025-09-25 16:55:08+00:00
It's interesting to see people fighting so hard to preserve these jobs. Do people want to work that badly? If a magic wand can do everything radiologists can do, would we embrace it or invent reasons to occupy 40+ hours a week of time anyway? If a magic wand, might be on the horizon, shouldn't we all be fighting to find it and even finding ways to tweak our behaviors to maximize the amount of free time that could be generated?
by overfeed | 2025-09-25 16:55:24+00:00
> The point of breaking things down like this is to minimize reviewer context.

This principle is much more important than some rule that says "Merges to main should not be more than 150 lines long". Sticklers for hard-and-fast rules usually haven't achieved the experience to know that adhering to fundamental principles will occasionally direct you to break the rules.