MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btown | 2025-09-11 14:54:40+00:00
This seems like a fascinating problem domain! I'm incredibly curious what product you're working on - if you're taking this much attention to detail on recurring events, it seems like it's a step beyond most scheduling systems I've seen.

Heck, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147466701... and https://www.amazon.com/Declarative-Models-Concurrent-Cyclic-... seem to indicate this is still an area of active research. And, to your point, almost certainly too complex to try to encode into a Postgres index - that would be a paper-worthy project unto itself!

(I've had to implement the naive approach here, which nested-loops over dates and rules and finds ones that might conflict. Definitely not meant to scale, and would be a nightmare if not at a date-level granularity!)

No pressure to share, but would love to learn more!
by just_human | 2025-09-11 14:54:49+00:00
No one knows why the Sumerians (later Babylonians) used base 60, but the leading theory is that 60 is highly divisible for a smaller number, making it much easier to do fractions and square roots by hand.

Also interesting, YAML supported base 60 in earlier versions (not sure why? possibly because easier to represent time?), but it was later dropped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal?utm_source=chatgpt...
by dns_snek | 2025-09-11 14:54:50+00:00
> Another political solution? Not going to happen.

I hold out some hope that the EU "faction" responsible for the DMA makes enough progress in the coming years to make the lives of Chat Control proponents difficult by fighting for viability and complete independence of third party app stores. That's why I think it's critical for the EU to strike down Apple's (and now Google's) notarization process.

I'd also invite those who support walled gardens and attack the EU for the DMA to rethink their position because if authoritarian legislation like Chat Control succeeds in the EU, it's definitely coming to the US next.

Of course an independent OS would be the dream but I'm even less hopeful about that.
by reactordev | 2025-09-11 14:55:04+00:00
As long as the USB port of your phone is used, you can not stop it. This is the backdoor the governments want without having to be tethered. Vote for privacy. Vote against the police state. Vote for freedom.

Libertarian rant aside. Governments fund these kinds of operations in secret so they can "effectively do their jobs". There's a ton of subcontractors working on AWS platforms that do analysis of this UFED "dump". (just a zip file of your phones directories). Emails, Phone logs, Carrier settings, Browser History, Text Messages, Cookies, Apps, App Logs, App Data, if it's on your phone, it's in the zip.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-11 14:55:12+00:00
The audio input comes from the AirPods not the iPhone. It’s processed on the iPhone.

The audio is captured by the outward facing microphones used for active noise cancellations. That’s why it only works for AirPods Pro 2, 3 and AirPods 4 with ANC. That wouldn’t just work with any headphones.

Even the AirPods Pro 2 will need a firmware update. They won’t work with just any old headphones and seeing that even the AirPods Pro 2 need a firmware update tells me that it is something they are doing with their H2 chip in their headphones in concert with the iPhone.
by Johnny555 | 2025-09-11 14:55:14+00:00
>The first sentence of this article links to information about the ban itself.

That article gives little information that's not in the original one, even clicking through to the article linked in that linked article gives scant details.

Here's the NYC public school district policy:

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/policies/cell-phone-and...

This is what's covered under the ban:

A personal internet-enabled device is any electronic device not issued by a school or NYCPS program that can connect to the internet, allowing the user to access content online. Examples of these personal devices include:

* Communication Devices, such as cell phones, smartphones, and smartwatches. * Computing Devices, such as laptops, tablets, and iPads. * Portable music and entertainment systems, such as MP3 players and game consoles.
by danans | 2025-09-11 14:55:19+00:00
> Sure, you can tax more up to a point, but eventually that tap runs dry and you're forced to reallocate existing resources.

Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less. If the tap is dry, it isn't because of over-taxation - it's because there's a reservoir of wealth hoarded by the relatively few.

A even cursory glance at the trajectory of wealth distribution will make that clear.
by slavik81 | 2025-09-11 14:55:37+00:00
Your comparison is not apples to apples as you would in practice have a seperation of compilation and linking in your non-modules example. The status quo is more like:

g++ -c -o hello.o hello.cpp g++ -o hello hello.o ./hello

With that said, the the modules command is mostly complex due to the -fmodule-file=Hello=Hello.pcm argument.

When modules were being standardized, there was a discussion on whether there should be any sort of implicit mapping between modules and files. This was rejected, so the build system must supply the information about which module is contained in which file. The result is more flexible, but also more complex and maybe less efficient.
by nixgeek | 2025-09-11 14:55:39+00:00
This feels like countering insinuations on the Internet with insinuations on the Internet.

Cellebrite doesn't publicly publish the latest support matrix so we have no real idea what progress if any they've made against recent iPhones and iOS versions, nor any real detail on how something like Lockdown Mode influences outcomes for their software.

Nor does this show anything about Pixel 9 or Pixel 10 and the newest variants of Android OS (which for Pixel 10 makes sense given (2024), but for Pixel 9 does it?).

What we do know as both companies disclose this is that Apple implements particularly with Advanced Data Protection enabled significantly more E2EE than Google, and both companies invest significantly through i.e. Apple's SEAR into the security of their hardware, software and platforms.

That GrapheneOS exists is great but I don't think this post helps much.
by emptysongglass | 2025-09-11 14:56:47+00:00
Sorry, as a Dane, this weird conspiracy narrative that the US has us by the throats and is forcing us to push this legislation through is garbage.

Our government did this because they love control. A hard hand is what got us through COVID and it's been effective at curtailing a lot of the issues our neighbor to our north has faced with uncontrolled immigration of refugees. Our government has also been pushing through expansion of surveillance capabilities for our police, including predictive policing and expanded facial recognition.

Now kindly stop passing the buck and blame for us. This is on us, on Denmark. We are to blame.
by moron4hire | 2025-09-11 14:57:04+00:00
It's possible to enjoy work and make time for family, too. It can be difficult to find such a job, but it's worth the effort.

I've found having a good job that I enjoy is a significant factor in me being emotionally available to my family. Work doesn't have to be a combative relationship between employee and employer.

Though I do think it's a bit easier to find outside of the tech industry. You can still be doing software development, just don't do it at a software company. Especially any place that has at any time claimed they are trying to "change the world".
by tpm | 2025-09-11 14:57:09+00:00
> What you are proposing would amount replacing the current bicameral legislature with a unicameral legislature.

Note they wrote "Start by removing...", not "Finish with". You could remove Council of the EU and then create another "upper house". But its personnel would have to be nominated differently. Perhaps directly elected? But that would be tough.

Re the direct vs indirect election, note that in some countries governments do not have to consist of MPs. Like currently in France, you have a directly elected president who then nominates whoever to be his head of government and ignore the parliament for a while. And that government has a say in the Council. And at that point it's good to answer the question, at which level of indirection can we say there is a deficit of democracy?

Also note that it's quite unusual for a democracy that the 'lower house' (EP) does not have legislative initiative, can't propose laws. Is that a deficit of democracy yet?

Of course I understand it's all because national governments do not want create another centre of power, but the issues are very real.
by rashkov | 2025-09-11 14:57:13+00:00
There's nothing proven about the genocide libel. That BBC article is about an association (IAGS) where anyone with $30 can join, whether they are a scholar or not. Twitter/X had a fun time with that over the last week, signing up as genocide scholars under ridiculous names. Furthermore IAGS has around 500 members, and only 129 of them voted with 86% of those supporting the resolution.

Here's 514 scholars calling for IAGS to retract: https://www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com/

“Genocide is the gravest offense known to humankind; to dilute its legal standards for ideological ends is a form of moral violence. It dishonors the memory of past victims, misleads the public about present atrocities, and obstructs efforts to avert future ones,” the Friday statement said.
by mablopoule | 2025-09-11 14:57:39+00:00
Passion, drive, and existential fulfillment can take many form, and "professional joy" can absolutely be one of them.

It's not about drinking the corporate kool-aid, but about taking pride in what you've put in the world (even potentially as a hobby), having a sense of craftsmanship, or even maintaining a certain work ethic.

Even the "making money" part can be tied to a very deep sense of providing for your loved ones, and a sense of personal responsibility.
by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-09-11 14:58:47+00:00
technically, "header only libraries" can be exceptions to C code not being in header files. See STB as an example https://github.com/nothings/stb. The advantage theoretically is that you can #include this library and use its code and types from just one file, its a decent model IMHO, but it can be jarring to someone unfamiliar with header only libraries.
by inkcapmushroom | 2025-09-11 14:58:59+00:00
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/5504/

https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-w...

The US is an outlier in how many guns we own, with about 1/3 of American adults owning guns, and we are also an extreme outlier in mass shootings unless you compare us to places that lack rule of law. How many more people need guns before that mass shooting number goes down to 0, do you think?
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-09-11 14:59:03+00:00
I see you were very precise with what you wrote about SAE 2.

I ride in waymo all the time, they are SAE 4.

I know many people who take a waymo every day.

What percentage of driving represents the delta between 4 and 5?

SAE 4 level LLM/Ai (if we can really even make that comparison) would have far less difficulty in deployment and would be far more disruptive in a far shorter period of time than SAE 4 self driving cars.
by pmdr | 2025-09-11 14:59:19+00:00
One can call into question the paucity of AI-critical posts & comments here on HN. Not much is being said about the economics, everybody's living off the hope that "they'll figure it out." And AGI is just a few hundred-billion-dollar loans away, so why quit while we're ahead?

If they do "figure it out" (both AGI and a viable business model), a lot of people here will likely be out of a job. If they don't, the whole thing will come crashing down, taking our invested savings with it.

The comparison to crypto keeps coming up. Not everyone's savings went into crypto, but a lot of people's savings and retirement funds are being invested in funds tied to the stock market. And right now its growth depending on pumping cash into the AI bubble.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-11 14:59:23+00:00
Lots of Linux users hate it, but as a one-time Linux user (about a decade as my main desktop OS) who now does 100% of important computer use on macOS or iOS, I find the division of “stable macOS base all the way through a working and feature-complete GUI desktop; homebrew (and the App Store) for user software; docker and language-specific package/env managers for development dependencies” to be basically perfect. Trying to use linuces where the base system and user packages are all managed together feels insane, now.
by stebalien | 2025-09-11 14:59:26+00:00
The solution (heavily) alluded to by GrapheneOS in https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164212472627210 and https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115165250870239451 is:

1. Release binary-only updates (opt-in). 2. Let the community (a) make GPL source requests for any GPLed components and (b) let the community reverse engineer the vulnerabilities from the binary updates. 3. Publish the source once everything is public anyways.

Which just shows how utterly ridiculous all this is.
by jackothy | 2025-09-11 14:59:26+00:00
I also find it a bit extreme how many people feel the need to add some sort of disclaimer every time they say something nice about the guy who died:

- "I strongly disagree with Charlie Kirk, but [...] Condolences to his wife and small kids"

- "I have scant philosophical agreement, but..."

- "While I'm not a fan..."

Says something about the level of polarization that people are so afraid of accidentally being mistaken for a supporter, even in these circumstances. He was not a particularly niche character, his views are probably similar to a decently sized share of the American population. The American people are struggling so hard to find any kind of unity.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-11 14:59:30+00:00
I got my copy of the GoF from Thriftbooks for something like $3.

Chapter 1 (introduction) and Chapter 6 (conclusion) are the only two chapters I found useful in my job. And I feel like I got my moneys worth.

Essentially every complaint I’ve even seen about design patterns is addressed in those two chapters. It’s clear that nobody ever reads those parts. Oh well. Continue on complaining about things that were addressed in the 1990s.
by underlipton | 2025-09-11 14:59:59+00:00
It will be a legitimate value when employers who abuse the presence of undocumented immigrants are held criminally accountable, and/or when legislators take action, per bipartisan request, to legalize the de facto state of immigration in the Americas, of whatever character and magnitude that social stability can afford. Until then, it's just xenophobia and racism, and especially egregious because a good number of "immigrants" are the descendants of people who've lived on and migrated around this continent for 10,000+ years.
by ghaff | 2025-09-11 15:00:01+00:00
The customers are often not in the breakouts or even on the show floor much. When I was involved in my former company's event, there was a big customer briefing center that was back to back meetings with (typically) customer management at some level and a separate day track for executives.

Even as an analyst--as I've been off and on--I didn't necessarily do a ton of breakouts. I'd watch the keynotes, whether in-person or streaming, and then it was hallway track, meetings, and usually some sort of separate analyst/media activity.
by tlogan | 2025-09-11 15:00:28+00:00
I got downvoted for asking this - but let me ask again:

The key driver for inflation seems to rents (technically listed as "shelter"). Shelter has a large weight in the CPI basket, and its 12-month increase was 3.6% (comparing to 2.9%).

Am I wrong here in reading the data? If I’m wrong please correct me. I assume the downvote is because I’m not correct.
by cowpig | 2025-09-11 15:00:30+00:00
Are there examples of government policies that successfully encourage the adoption/use of open standards?

I feel like the EU has successfully pushed the world towards USB-C as a standard, which seems like a big success to me (I no longer need, but obviously still have, my giant tub of various connectors and wires in my garage).

Would some kind of policy make sense to encourage an open syndication standard? Would it be a good thing?
by bluecalm | 2025-09-11 15:00:40+00:00
I agree. Additionally systems where it's really vote for parties and not for people from your region results in elected officials being more loyal to the party than to the people. It would be significantly better if every region voted for their representatives. As it is if you don't belong to a party that gets 5% (or w/e it in your country) you will not be representing your voters even if you win in your area. Who runs in a given region is often decided by a centralized party leadership anyway. The people not only don't get to vote on issues but they can't even elect someone to represent them - just a party official designated to a given region.
by anarazel | 2025-09-11 15:00:56+00:00
This is just wildly wrong.

On an older 2 socket workstation, with relatively poor memory bandwidth, I ran a linux kernel compile.

perf stat --topdown --td-level 2

indicates that memory bandwidth is not a bottleneck. Fetch latency, branch mispredicts and the frontend are.

I also analyzed the memory bandwidth using

perf stat --per-socket -M memory_bandwidth_read,memory_bandwidth_write -a -r0 sleep 1

and it never gets anywhere close to the memory bandwidth the system can trivially utilize (it barely reaches the bandwidth a single core can utilize).

iostat indicates there are pretty much no reads/writes happening on the relevant disks.

Every core is 100% busy.
by 9x39 | 2025-09-11 15:01:14+00:00
Is it that these were hundreds of the best battery factory professional engineers in SK or just a cultural match?

How is competence built with any offshoring of a new thing? I think it’s a stretch to say Americans can’t be trained to make a factory.

I think the simplest explanation is the likely one: that costs money, we can avoid paying if we use an underclass that doesn’t follow the rules or share the costs of locals we can undercut.
by troyvit | 2025-09-11 15:01:42+00:00
> Nothing prevents a Web app from having good keyboard shortcuts; Gmail and Linear are great examples.

I think nothing prevents a web app from having keyboard shortcuts, but more often than not what I see is web apps having bad keyboard shortcuts that hijack the browser's natural behavior (taking over <ctrl>-f is a good example). I think often people go at this as if it's an Electron app and not a browser that has literally a hundred other interfaces loaded into it, leading the user to have certain expectations.

All that aside your Gmail example is spot on, and I'm one of those google-hatin' dudes.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-11 15:01:44+00:00
This sounds like airlines saying they have a right to bump people who paid for a ticket because the airlines couldn't figure out a business model that earned them an acceptable amounts of money without doing it. UHC does that, except instead of denying you the seat you paid for, they deny you care you paid for, and you suffer and die.

The problem is the conclusion that we must allow this so that their business economics can be sound, so that they can continue to exist. We should instead conclude that being horrible to people is bad, and any business model that requires it should not exist.

Brian saw a company that he knew ahead of time was horrible to people, that he knew ahead of time decided that many of their customers must die, and indeed this was critical to the company's economics and business model, and thought, 'You know what? I want to be a part of that. I like that so much that I want to be the one in charge of it.'

Why that job, instead of the millions of others? Well, we can take a gue$$. He had to make his nut, no matter who he hurt along the way, right?

Meanwhile, as an arguably less-horrible person, I see a job posting for startups that use AI to scan terminal cancer patient records for timely funeral business leads in exchange for offering crypto credits that can be applied towards a coupon for palliative care AI chat or whatever, or makes drones and AI systems for tracking and identifying government critics for later persecution, and I have to click 'next' because my soul is worth more than the salary. What a fuckin' chump I am.
by jeduardo | 2025-09-11 15:02:03+00:00
I wonder if they're successful in converting free users to paid users after they gate all useful product features behind a paywall.

I was always a light user of most products they bought and their changes just pushed me away. But as a light user, I wasn't planning to pay a subscription anyway, so going away might just release them the resources used to keep a user that generates no revenue.

However, it looks to me that the communities they buy thrive on free users. If the free users go away, will the community and usage remain? For how long will they be able to make money out of those communities until there aren't any users left?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-11 15:03:29+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://bronnieware.com/blog/r...

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16730132W/The_top_five_regre...

Related:

The Ideal Road Not Taken: The Self-Discrepancies Involved in People’s Most Enduring Regrets - https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://walkerd.people.charles... | https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000326 - 2008
Ask HN: Is software dev consulting market better than the salary market?
by ryandvm | 2025-09-11 15:04:13+00:00
From what I've heard and read over the last couple years, my impression of the software engineering job market is that it's pretty dismal right now even for those with experience. Somewhat of a perfect storm of candidate oversupply, economic uncertainty, and the looming threat of AI.

My question is whether the software engineering consulting market is equally depressed or that's still a healthy market? What are the day-to-day experiences of full time software engineering freelancers or consultants?
by 9x39 | 2025-09-11 15:04:14+00:00
Okay but they’re so far away and indirectly related they might as well be on a different planet from the POV of locals.

I don’t think race affects the vote for permitting or funding this program that equates to anything more than “my donors treat me very well if I vote for thing so line goes up”. In other words, enabling a underclass is entirely compatible with diverse .gov representatives.
by m101 | 2025-09-11 15:04:44+00:00
What is probably going on is the following:

- if inflation picks up again it will have to be controlled

- going by 1970s experience it may be that an engineered recession is required to bring inflation down

- recession fears is risk-off

- risk-off means go into bonds and out of stocks

But yeah, inflation is a double edged sword on bonds. To some extent higher inflation expectations should mean that yields on bonds should go up to provide a consistent real return.
by goku12 | 2025-09-11 15:05:48+00:00
I thought there was something wrong with me because of how many people were celebrating an assassination! But realized it was not, when people from my native culture were all shocked and surprised by the same. In spite of being bad at processing emotional signals from the others, I can easily imagine myself on the other side and see how such responses will affect them. How much empathy do you need to be able to do that?

It's like an entire generation is suffering from a serious emotional malady. It feels like the entire society got derailed morally and ethically. What happened? Did education fail everyone that much?
by kebman | 2025-09-11 15:05:57+00:00
I beg to differ. As long as we have gentlemen like Pavel Durov getting arrested at French airports, it's definitively at technical question. A decentralized and distributed chat protocol with distributed devs and owners would make it impossible to arrest any one individual, and it would make it exceedingly hard to censor such a platform. But you are perhaps a fed? xD