MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saxenaabhi | 2025-10-12 02:38:32+00:00
That's not true on the face of it. BYD overtook VW in chinese market only recently in 2024[1]. In fact what seem to enable chinese auto companies to become world leader was the fact that they were exposed to global competition from VW/Tesla/GM etc.

I think you were pointing out chinese strategy to force auto makers to make JV like SAIC Volkwagen[2].

While I'm not sure if that could work in west due to high cost of labour, regardless to me it seems the strategy behind these auto tariffs is to just shut chinese automakers out of the market at great harm to european consumer.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3287079...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_Volkswagen
by matham | 2025-10-12 02:39:19+00:00
With Titanium Backup unmaintained, Neo Backup [1] works pretty well. It has some potential issues with restoring wifi/bluetooth/sms as those were still experimental, last I used it. But sms at least worked. I'd suggest a 2nd backup app of those, just in case.

[1] https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-12 02:39:36+00:00
Reminds me of the Steam Deck's touchpad for scrolling. Some people are very confused by the default behavior which seems to scroll up and down randomly when you swipe. But for people who used an iPod it makes perfect sense, and you can scroll continuously by moving your thumb in a circle, rather than scrolling in increments by swipe swipe swipe.
by hu3 | 2025-10-12 02:39:50+00:00
The point here is, there's no full uBlock Origin in Safari like there's in Firefox because of Apple's limitations.

See this post with 400+ comments from 67 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825

Top comment explains it all:

> People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the bare minimum, years after everyone else, and barely get called out. The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-12 02:41:18+00:00
If it was that simple, there would be no practical reason to limit that scrub to three ( and in such a confusion inducing ways ). If I want to waste my time scrubbing, that should be up to me -- assuming it is indeed just scrubbing tagged data, because if anything should have been learned by now, it is that:

worst possible reading of any given feature must be assumed to the detriment of the user and benefit of the company

Honestly, these days, I do not expect much of Microsoft. In fact, I recently thought to myself, there is no way they can still disappoint. But what do they do? They find a way damn it.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-12 02:41:19+00:00
Do you mean that literally? You know noone less than 30-60 days of bankruptcy or ruin?

The fact that many, if not most, people are that close is the problem. We shouldn't be days or weeks away from ruin, and should the time come that one has to stand for their rights into the court of law they should be able to afford that fight on the order of a month or two. How can we keep our government in check if we can't afford to fight it for more than a few weeks?
by Loxicon | 2025-10-12 02:41:45+00:00
I have charged clients first before I start. Most in full, some in part.

The question "why would they trust me to deliver?" is a good one. And there are two answers:

1. How you sell will determine their trust level. In my sales deck, I have testimonials, case studies and the outline of our full process. By the end of the presentation, when I tell them the price, they expected $10,000, but it's only $4,000. I ask them to pay the 4k now. Or, pay 2 payments of $2,500.

2. If the prospect asks us to do ALL the work first, then invoice, I say the following: "if we do all the work first, it means that you have no skin in the game. In the past, that hurt my business because people would disappear after my team spent 300 hours working. For that reason, it's not our policy to do all the work first. We have 2 options."

Then, i end off by saying: "if that's a deal breaker, I understand and I will happy send you the plan for what you should do next if you want to go at it without our help"
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-12 02:42:12+00:00
People like our current President. And former president. And former CIA director.

It seems like lots of high level officials are being irresponsible in handling condfidential information.

Either the rules are counter-intuitive, or difficult to follow, or officials are highly incentivized not to follow them.

But for some reason, lots of them aren't.

It makes public accountability very difficult.
by lutusp | 2025-10-12 02:42:20+00:00
On the topic of low-quality investments, there should be a posting rule that HN submissions consist of text, not pictures of text, so readers can search for additional information by copying text, not images.

Nothing is more frustrating than an image-based PDF masquerading as text, especially now that, with little time or effort, OCR can convert most images into text documents.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-12 02:43:19+00:00
Google Wave.

Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It sucks.
by osigurdson | 2025-10-12 02:44:05+00:00
A simpler regulation would be to disclose at the time of purchase how much ad content that a given device that one is purchasing will display. That way if you want something cheap and are ok with an ad sponsored device, everything is fine. If you don't want ads, buy a competitor's product that doesn't have ads. If competition isn't broken this model should work fine.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-12 02:44:56+00:00
(click)

"No Songs Found There are no songs available for this language preference."

(click, click)

"Hear O Israel"

נַחֲמוּ נַחֲמוּ עַמִּי nachamu nachamu ami (comfort, comfort my people)

יֹאמַר אֱלֹהֵיכֶם yomar Eloheichem (says your God)

דַּבְּרוּ עַל־לֵב יְרוּשָׁלַ ִם dabru al-lev yerushalayim (speak to the heart of Jerusalem)

...

Ya, Ok got it! Thanks
by svat | 2025-10-12 02:45:16+00:00
The subheading says:

> An exclusive excerpt from Skip Hollandsworth’s new book, She Kills.

So I imagine it's an actual book chapter from the book (probably the first chapter), rather than a teaser to be continued: the ending here seems like a conclusion (“Finally, I sighed, put the car into drive, and made my way back down the hill. The story that had launched my lifelong obsession, I realized, was one I might never be able to tell.”)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-12 02:46:06+00:00
Just for scope, I really really enjoyed seeing this NYT article & photos, on the 16.2 GW Talatan solar install in Qinghai China. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/china-solar-tibe...

The 6.2 GW here would have been significant.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 02:47:10+00:00
You can run LineageOS on the Nintendo Switch if you want: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/nx/variant1/

And it's a decently recent version with more-or-less official Nvidia Tegra drivers, too. For the variety of weird-but-ubiquitous devices that have a bootloader hack, LineageOS is the route to a working smart device that anyone can pick up and use.
by Scaevolus | 2025-10-12 02:47:58+00:00
> The Met Police investigation discovered street thieves were being paid up to £300 per handset - and the force said stolen devices are being sold in China for up to £4,000 each, given they are internet-enabled and more attractive for those trying to bypass censorship.

This doesn't make sense. You can buy "internet-enabled" phones in China easily, the Great Firewall isn't device-level. Why would a stolen iPhone be worth more than a new one?
by like_any_other | 2025-10-12 02:48:35+00:00
> That's not true on the face of it.

You're saying China doesn't protect and help their native industries? That's simply incorrect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

James K. Galbraith has stated that "free trade has attained the status of a god" and that " ... none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...

China imposes more trade and investment barriers, discriminatory taxes, and information security restrictions than any other country by a vast margin. - https://ecipe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DTE_China_TWP_R...

As with most countries, China has adopted some policies aimed at protecting or promoting its domestic industries, including targeted quotas, subsidies to certain key industries and rejection of patents in critical industries. - https://www.rfa.org/english/news/afcl/fact-check-china-prote...

> harm to european consumer.

What about the European worker and the European citizen? As a European myself, I don't like being reduced to a mere consumer.
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 02:52:20+00:00
Your "pet" containers basically become your traditional OS, in a way. They use filesystem overlays, so your container can see all of the files on your system, plus it's own layered files, ie. each container has it's own "view" of the filesystem.

You can install anything inside your "pet" containers that you would normally install on your actual system. The container keeps everything tidy and self-contained. I have a container for development, another for music/DAW, another for certain games that needed weird deps.

Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue come with `Toolbx`[1] preinstalled, but I found `distrobox`[2] to be more flexible for my needs. I layered distrobox onto my base image, and it just works.

Many GUI apps are available via Flatpaks, and can be installed directly or via the Software Center. You can enable Flathub[3] as a source, so there's a ton of available software, including Steam, Chrome, Firefox, Discord, Spotify and more. Flatpaks are also sandboxed and self-contained, so they can't pollute/break your system either.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolb...

[2] https://distrobox.it/

[3] https://flathub.org/en
by gruez | 2025-10-12 02:52:36+00:00
>but how do I know I'll have more leg room anyway?

google flights literally has a legroom indicator.

>Maybe they'll just upcharge me.

the common upchargeable items (eg. baggage) can either be found on google flights, or are easily searchable.

>Same for restaurants if you're a traveler and don't have time to get familiar with the reputation.

That's basically a perennial problem with tourist trap restaurants, no need to invoke "enshittification" or corporation bashing.
by noisy_boy | 2025-10-12 02:52:41+00:00
I mean if you just follow the common usage patterns of Spring Boot, it is not really magic - just stick to the core annotations and not more. It does require one to have basic familiarity with Spring Boot but I don't think that is an unreasonable ask. And like many things, people can go totally overboard and make it an impenetrable mess but I think that is on the programmer, not the framework.
by hashmash | 2025-10-12 02:54:33+00:00
This adds an extra level of friction that doesn't happen when the set of primitive types is small and simple. When everyone agrees what an int is, it can be freely passed around without having to perform special conversions and deal with errors.

When trying to adapt a long to an int, the usual pattern is to overload the necessary methods to work with longs. Following the same pattern for uint/int conversions, the safe option is to work with longs, since it eliminates the possibility of having any conversion errors.

Now if we're taking about signed and unsigned 64-bit values, there's no 128-bit value to upgrade to. Personally, I've never had this issue considering that 63 bits of integer precision is massive. Unsigned longs don't seem that critical.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-12 02:54:51+00:00
I believe the tariff fiasco has crossed a line that marks the beginning of the end of American Empire and there's really no going back.

America is a one-party state. That party is neoliberalism. On economics and foreign policy there's almost no daylight between the major parties in the US and really foreign policy is economics. Imperialism is the highest form of capitalism.

Political discourse is dominated by culture war issues not economics. Race, gender, sexual oreintation, immigration status, etc are intentional distractions designed to divide the working class while the government steals from you to give it to the wealthy. As LBJ put it:

> “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Southern states were so deeply concerned that poor white people would unit with freed slaves they went out of their way to sow these kinds of racial divisions.

Why tariffs have crossed a line is because the Republicans seem to have forgotten that protecting the economic order is the point of culture war issues. You're not meant to actually start messing twith the economic order. Trade is so intertwined on the global stage that no country stands self-sufficient. China can wield an extremely large stick here. Rare earths are just the tip of the iceberg.

The US produces very little now and that's mostly weapons (and some commercial airplanes). You might say tech products but they're almost all produced in China. We have a dysfunctional economy that teeters on the brink of collapse where basics like food, water and shelter are getting out of reach for many people. Take out data centers being built and our economy is in decline and that's another theft from the public too as we're all paying for the electricity. Now that might be fine if those AI data centers actually produced something but... they don't.

The capitalist dream here seems to be to produce AI to displace workers but where does it end? Who buys your stuff if nobody has a job and those who do have no disposable income?

AI data centers, weapons and private equity firms. That's the modern US economy.

Compare that to China where the government is building infrastructure at an incredible rate and is investing in public services.

I feel like the epitaph for the United States of America will be something like "For a brief time we created a lot of shareholder value."
by sneak | 2025-10-12 02:55:09+00:00
It’s not open core (which is a type of open source), it’s not open source, and it’s not “not pure open source”.

It’s not open at all. It’s a nonfree license.

It’s neither free as in freedom nor free as in beer.

You’re not “all for free software” if you carry water like this for a proprietary nonfree source-available package such as you are here.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-12 02:55:48+00:00
You are being mindful of some real risks and concerns.

That said, there's no reason to have to feel like you need to take a stab at it totally by yourself. Heck, that's what I'm doing in the day to day - putting together a few of these portfolios for people. There are certainly advisors and managers who know the academic side of this and can diversify away from concentration risks and such.

There are also many great tools in the relatively recent future that have opened up for common investors to diversify smartly. You can get pure trend following wrapped up in an ETF. You can get 100% equity 100% bond wrapped up in an etf at half of the size, so you can fit Gold and Trend in a portfolio with no hassle (both are low return but great from a diversification standpoint, so most retail investors want to lever up a bit to get back to the standard SP500 return/variance profile).

If you don't or can't find someone who can math it out for your individual case, it's also an option to just pull a few of the best proven individual ideas, such as "have some international diversification". ETFs are easy to grab here. Even 10-20% can pad out some of the US concentration and dollar exposure a bit. Smallcaps, like you said, are another way to shift away from the "size factor" dominated index weighted ETFs. The Nifty 50 bubble in the 60s was a major catastrophe, and history rhymes, so why not hedge a bit while still sticking to a proven investment framework? No financial advisor is going to look at an equity slice of 80% S&P, 10% international-ex-US, and 10% smallcap and say it's a stupid idea. Actually, they will probably say it's a smart improvement over 100% S&P.

When it comes to smallcaps, the caveat is that the Russel2000 is filled with fairly low quality companies. High debt, value traps, you've got it all. That's diversification, but probably not the type you are seeking. That's why smallcaps are a great target to add some factor based investing returns. This is another diversified source of return in and of itself (AQR as 150 billion under management here), but why not overlay some Quality and Value factors on top of the smallcaps? Now you have a sprinkle of factor investing edge in the portfolio alongside the smallcaps, while not drifting too far from the status quo since smallcaps are a small allocation. Not going to toss out specific investment ideas but there are ETFs/mutual funds for this! Just stick to low fees and a long track record. A question like "I want 10% in smallcaps, but I want a factor overlay for Quality and Value", is a question that would actually get money out of a good advisor by the way.

Here's a good, slightly wonky, lecture on some of the esoteric yet quite "in your face" risks within a complex dominated by passive and index weighted flows. It's not at all a misguided though to think there are some risks out there in the left tails. This was a lecture from 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-rJciYZmi0&t=1s
by kbos87 | 2025-10-12 02:56:50+00:00
As an Airbnb host I can just as quickly tell you stories of exploitative guests who are chronic abusers of the system, attempting to get refunds by threatening narratives like this that they know have the potential to get sympathy and traction with Airbnb or on social media. In almost all of these cases it ends up being one persons' word vs. another. An accusation is far from proof, but hosts most often stand to lose.
by rs186 | 2025-10-12 02:57:56+00:00
This phone/carrier nonsense is just stupid. I had lots of trouble with Wi-Fi calling on Android phones:

* A phone purchased outside US/unlocked but non mainstream (aka not Samsung/Pixel) phone purchased in the US cannot enable Wi-Fi calling despite having hardware & software support for it, as it's not a supported model

* An at&t Samsung phone that is later unlocked cannot enable Wi-Fi calling when using a Visible SIM card. But guess what works? But a Verizon SIM card, insert it without buying/activating a plan, and the phone will ask you whether you want to "switch to" Verizon. After restarting the phone, bloatware from Verizon appears on your phone and suddenly your phone is capable of WiFi calling. (Alternatively, you may be able to connect your phone to a PC and use a tool to fix this.)

Not to mention the voicemail mess. On Android, each carrier provides their own voicemail app that is not integrated with the phone app.

I don't know who to blame, but all of the nonsense makes me question the decision to use an Android phone.
by onceler | 2025-10-12 02:58:03+00:00
Pretty much, but the govt didn't do any blocking directly. They just told the carriers, "Hey, you must not allow people to use devices on your networks that are unable to make emergency calls, or we'll apply serious penalties."

The carriers then responded, "I notice that there is no requirement that we allow any device that can make emergency calls. So we will only allow devices we also sell (and maybe a few other models, if they're popular enough that we can't get away with not allowing them). And if that means more people than necessary will have to buy new phones, we will happily sell them new phones."
by echelon | 2025-10-12 02:58:29+00:00
Same as what we've done to them with the GPU supply.

It's time for us to grow anti-fragility and independence. And we should expect China to do the same.

Sucks for US soybean farmers, but it would have undoubtedly happened in the future regardless.

We need to distribute critical manufacturing far and wide amongst our allies, and onshore some of the most important pieces. (Though I'm not sure the current admin considers our allies as friends, which is not a great idea during this great reshuffling.)
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-12 02:59:06+00:00
A lot of classic perceptual hash algorithms do "squinty" comparisons, where if an image kind of looks like one you've hashed against, you can get false positives.

I'd imagine outside of egregious abuse and truly unique images, you could squint at a legal image and say it looks very much like another illegal image, and get a false positive.

From what I'm reading about PhotoDNA, it's your standard phashing system from 15 years ago, which is terrifying.

But yes, you can add heuristics, but you will still get false positives.
by YZF | 2025-10-12 02:59:10+00:00
"Rare earths are crucial for various defense technologies, including F-35 fighter jets, Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines, Tomahawk missiles, radar systems, Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, and the Joint Direct Attack Munition series of smart bombs. The United States is already struggling to keep pace in the production of these systems."

This feels like it can't be true. What % of "rare earths" are going into those military products? I mean those are super low volume manufacturing compared to EVs or anything consumer oriented. I'm sure there are strong magnets somewhere in a submarine but how many?

I thought "rare earths" were not rare at all. A lot of stuff is made in China because it's economical but can be made somewhere else for a bit more money. Do billion dollar fighter jets care if the magnet used in some electric motor costs $0.35 or $0.43 ?

Isn't the manufacturing issue in the US unrelated to any of this? Not enough factories, not enough skilled people, not having ramped up because munitions weren't needed?
by postpress | 2025-10-12 02:59:53+00:00
Screencast automating the player from DevTools -: https://gist.github.com/kherrick/d73f2245e704f9e5465b08c3e4e...

Example source automateSpriteGardenFullscreenDig.js - https://gist.github.com/kherrick/7f8cc9d7bfdc9a6951657df8f13...
by _wire_ | 2025-10-12 02:59:56+00:00
This made me think of the Apple Vision marketing that showed a virtual space full of windows to realtor and home decoration websites, including a spreadsheet window.

How will terminal evolve to fit VR

Neuralink?!

Imagine resetting your web server via a T9 interface for a virtual 2000 era Nokia split keyboard phone running ssh in a terminal.

"Siri, open Nokia 2000 and clean my server logs"
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-12 02:59:57+00:00
Even though the exchange has become the TSX Venture exchange, Vancouver remains the centre for junior mining companies, of the sort where scams are common.

I used to work in Downtown Vancouver and would on occasion get my haircut at a downtown barber frequented by office workers all around, and those barbers were a wealth of knowledge about the latest gossip from shifty junior miners and whatever they were into, which was increasingly not mining, but trendy startups.

Funny thing was when I was working in the area mining was going through a bit of a downturn, so a lot of the junior miners were shifting into other hot things they could fundraise for, like cannabis and crypto. From scam to scam to scam.

I stopped working downtown so stopped getting the gossip but I presume they swiftly pivoted to NFTs and onto whatever flakey thing they could still dubiously attach a .ai domain to.