MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by N70Phone | 2025-10-01 20:53:27+00:00
> a year or two ago

3 years ago. September 2022. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/23/economy/powell-fed-labor-...

When unemployment rates were back down to the pre-covid 2020 levels, only time they were even lower was before the 1969 recession. When inflation was at the highest it's been since the 80s.

The statement & monetary policy decision was entirely appropriate at the time.
by blibble | 2025-10-01 20:53:34+00:00
> The closest the UK has to a constitution-like protection is getting it to sign an international treaty

international treaties have no effect under UK law, unless Parliament decides to pass an Act containing its provisions

this is called dualism

for example, the effect of all EU law in the UK was dis-applied with an Act of Parliament, by a single line:

> The European Communities Act 1972 is repealed on exit day.

(European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:53:41+00:00
As a financial examole: I know a very famous content creator from the pre-google YouTube days who did highly edited skits. Lots of drama happened, as is the course, and he's faded from the public eye. Outside of making a few videos 2 years ago, he hasn't posted anything in 9 years. His patron hasn't updated in just as long. I'm not even sure if he tweeted this is year.

He still has 140k subs on YouTube. He peaked at $4000/month on patron but still makes $200 today /after 9 years of barely snyghubv)

You're never hitting zero after a certain point unless you shit down yourself. Joe Rogan is still popular but Alex Jones is definitely hit
by robotamerica | 2025-10-01 20:54:00+00:00
found this on your ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog. having fun with it. set it up like my zen browser (with the sidebar + pinned tabs) and testing it out for my productivity stack at work. I themed out the glide-hint css via userChrome.css to better match my aesthetics. keep up the great work, i will be keenly following along.

1. https://freeimage.host/i/KMQu3EQ 2. https://freeimage.host/i/KMQAJ9t
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-01 20:54:15+00:00
The data on the article applies to IT related jobs disappearing for any reason on the same period. The only thing specific to AI is the pick of time, and the conclusions seem very robust from moving it some months around either way.

One specific stupid manager will absolutely replace people, but the overall dynamic isn't any more broken than it used to be.

What, personally, I think it's very surprising.
by shambhavs | 2025-10-01 20:54:35+00:00
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by mustaphah | 2025-10-01 20:55:07+00:00
What's your setup? If you're forwarding, an SPF-only aligned email will fail DMARC, and it's the sender's fault: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441243

Next time a legit email ends up in your spam folder, use this tool to figure out why: https://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx

I've had a few cases myself, and it's always been the sender's fault.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-01 20:55:49+00:00
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by nomadiccoder | 2025-10-01 20:55:49+00:00
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by taffer | 2025-10-01 20:55:49+00:00
> to the point where tried and true RDBMS are shoehorning support for storing and querying JSON documents

That was in 2012. Nowadays, NoSQL companies are shoehorning SQL into their products.

> All flagship database services from major cloud providers are nosql databases.

AWS Aurora, Google's Spanner and Big Query and Snowflake are all SQL DBs.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-01 20:56:00+00:00
> when people on social media are mad at you

It's about more than that - many people have lost their jobs, been de-banked, or even been arrested (especially in countries like the UK and Germany) for expressing their opinion publicly when that opinion was merely (a) what most people in their country believed in the recent past (< 50 years ago), and (b) a politically incorrect opinion.
by evanb | 2025-10-01 20:56:28+00:00
If you find Jane Goodall inspirational, you may be delighted to learn about Anne Innis Dagg [0], whose studies of wild giraffe predates Goodall's study of chimps. The documentary "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" [1] is fantastic and has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The reason you might not know Dagg's name is essentially that she was denied tenure for being a woman.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg

[1] https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/
by bigwheels | 2025-10-01 20:56:38+00:00
Hi, was hoping to email you about reaching out to us via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442642, but your profile link (https://veilmail.io/e/geMecV) goes to a "The domain name is for sale" page.

Cheers, best wishes and regards, etc.
by fuoqi | 2025-10-01 20:56:41+00:00
Add to that cost of electricity routinely rising in EU. The practice shows that with the current technology intermittent renewable generation above a certain threshold in the total generation mix results in a sharply higher cost of electricity for consumers when accounted for all additional expenses (storage, more robust grids, "smart" grid controls, etc.). And we got this with massive EU subsidies on top of dirt cheap solar panels subsidized by the Chinese government.
by joshvm | 2025-10-01 20:56:45+00:00
"don't have to screw in every drive" is relative, but at least tool-less drive carriers are a thing now.

A lot of older toploaders from vendors like Dell are not tool-free. If you bought vendor drives and one fails, you RMA it and move on. However if you want to replace failed drives in the field, or want to go it alone from the start with refurbished drives... you'll be doing a lot of screwing. They're quite fragile and the plastic snaps easily. It's pretty tedious work.
by cowpig | 2025-10-01 20:56:54+00:00
You're nitpicking the term "journalism" here, but even in casual conversation if a friend went on and on about how great a company was and then I later found out that they:

* Got paid a referral fee if I signed up

* Owned shares in the company

* Even was roommates with the founders/CEO but failed to mention it

I would trust that person less going forward.

If you want to be perceived as trustworthy, then you shouldn't say things that you have a hidden interest in saying.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-01 20:56:57+00:00
Hard agree here. The value of combining database + UX + logic into a workbench is like the app we've been reinventing over and over again. It's why Visual Basic still lives :-).

And yes, not the greatest way to proceed once you know what you want, but a heck of a way to iterate quickly and identify the actual requirements.
by lompad | 2025-10-01 20:56:59+00:00
This comment is always so strange to me - do you really, seriously believe that the people setting up the grids never thought about dunkelflaute? And I don't mean that in an attacking way, I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts there.

Like, yes, we're aware. At least in the german south we have the opposite problem right now. We are getting negative electricity prices (you get paid for taking some) more often because we have more electricity than we can use due to solar, at least during the day. Proper power storage is being built at this very moment all over the country.

Aside from dunkelflaute, the wind is statistically stronger when solar power generation is low, so at night and when it's super cloudy. And dunkelflaute is a couple days to weeks per year. (german perspective, don't know enough about the other countries' grids)

Regarding that problem in portugal, you misunderstood something there. The big 2025 power outage wasn't caused by clouds, it was an combination of localized blackouts and a sudden power _surge_ which caused a cascading failure which couldn't be stabilized by the conventional power plants even though on paper they had the capacity. How did you get the idea it had anything to do with "cloudy" weather?
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-01 20:57:02+00:00
Typically, my first meal is at 11:45 (a plate of normal food + fruit), and then one at about 19 (the content varies from bread + cold cuts to soup).

When this changes in numbers, size or kind I do not feel any difference in energy.

When I bike to work I am particularly not hungry until 11:45.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-10-01 20:57:04+00:00
This looks really cool! My current setup is Firefox with VimFX[0] and an elaborate config.js, but when the NixOS package gets merged I will definitely try it.

For anyone wanting to stick to stock Firefox ESR, I highly recommend checking out VimFX.

0: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx

The big downside of VimFX compared to Glide is lack of Firefox internal API documentation. I've had to dig through Firefox source code several times to find out how to do things e.g. wrangle tabs that would have been easy to do with the WebExtensions APIs. The fact that Glide makes these APIs available in the config file is the part I'm most excited about.
by fakedang | 2025-10-01 20:57:09+00:00
Oil isn't a binary for energy though. There's a growing need for it in other industries, from plastics to pharma to fertilizers. Moreover, oil production is currently staying high because the OPEC cartel can't simply afford to shut down well production - only scale it down very gradually and pray that no one finds out (which is impossible given that oil is sold on the spot market). On the other hand, American Big Oil is dependent on global prices - too low and drilling deep or fracking becomes infeasible for them, while high prices mean economic slowdown (due to domino effects on other industries) until OPEC bandies together to stabilize prices to reasonable levels (which is $65-75 per barrel).

Currently we're in a situation where OPEC, remembering 2014 and hell bent on diversification, is offloading record quantities of crude into the market, to ensure that American production stays infeasible.
by montenegrohugo | 2025-10-01 20:57:33+00:00
ah, it seems i completely misunderstood your question.

I think there's two angles here: personal accounting for the user, and compliance for us as a company.

From a user perspective, it's your own responsibility to classify your transactions when you do your accounting, wether you're an individual or a business. So if you get paid via Peanut, you need to say if it was a donation, friend payment, income, etc.

From our own perspective on compliance, risk and fees, it depends a lot on what provider we're working with and in what jurisdiction the operate on. Sorry if that's not a satisfying answer ("it depends"); happy to go into more detail if you have a specific example in mind
by xeonmc | 2025-10-01 20:57:33+00:00
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons. - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by paulbleicher | 2025-10-01 20:58:07+00:00
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by jcgl | 2025-10-01 20:58:18+00:00
Looks like it's probably neat, but is kinda inverse from what I myself want. I want:

- something general-purpose (not specific to LLMS (I myself don't use agents--just duck.ai when I want to ask an LLM a question)) - something focused on sandboxing (bells and whistles like git and nix integration sound like things I'd want to use orthogonal tools for)
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-01 20:58:26+00:00
Forget about that.

Lets focus on the tech firms that produce software.

Two things should happen if AI proliferates into software development:

1) Increasing top line - due to more projects being taken by enabling labour to be more productive 2) Operating margin increasing - due to labour input declining and taking more cost-reduction projects

If those 2 things dont occur - the AI investment was a waste of money from a financial perspective. And this is before I even discount the cash flows by the cost of capital of these high-risk projects (high discount rate).

At some point everyone will be analysed in this manner. Only Nvidia is winning as it stands, ironically, not because of LLMs. But rather because they sell the hardware that LLMs operate on.
by ghc | 2025-10-01 20:58:33+00:00
> Few studies use cross-attention to integrate time series into LLMs

I mean, sure, but why would you need a study for that? There's plenty of prior work using cross-attention to integrate time series dynamics into non-LLM transformer models, right? Or maybe I'm assuming that integrating a time series embedding with an LLM is easier than it is.

Looking at the repo, the training data seems extremely health-focused. I guess I would have to tune the model with my own datasets if I want it to answer questions about multi-source sensor data?
Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder
by dailyanchovy | 2025-10-01 20:58:38+00:00
Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where:

- folders remember where they were on the screen

- folders remember how big they were

This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.
by cracki | 2025-10-01 20:59:00+00:00
How is google mail still supporting a "fetch" via IMAP of mails stored in a third party service? What are the settings to poke on mail.google.com for this?

The announcement clearly says that "Check mail from other accounts" will disappear. They say it's about POP, but if the entire feature disappears, then it's not just about POP.
by eesmith | 2025-10-01 20:59:12+00:00
"In fact" is a big strong, no?

"0.1" is what the language specification says it is, and I disagree with the view that it's ignored by most languages when it's often clearly and explicitly stated.

That most people don't know IEEE 754 floats, and do things like store currency as floats, is a different matter. (For that matter, currency should be stored as decimal, because account rules can be very particular about how rounding is carried out.)

Similarly, 3 * 4 + 5 may 'in fact' be 17 .. sometimes. But it's 27 with right-to-left precedence ... and 19683 in APL where * means power (3 to the power of 9). While 3 + 4 * 5 may be 35 or 23 (or 1027 in APL).

FWIW, FatRat is ℚ, not Rat. Rat switches to Num if the denominator is too high, as I quoted.

Bringing it back to Python, ABC (which influenced Python's development) used a ratio/fraction/FatRat natively, which handled the 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 issue, but ran into the 'pathologically large numerators and denominators' problem even for beginning students.

I see Rat as a way to get the best of both worlds, but I'm certain it has its own odd edge cases, like I suspect x + 1/13 - 1/13 might not be the original value if x + 1/13 caused a Rat to Num conversion.
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-01 20:59:17+00:00
.... and is that the maximum percentage of renewables 54% ? what is the minimum daily percentage? There should be a measure what is the maximum percentage over a month? to see how renewable system handles outages of renewables ( ie no solor or wind ? and storage is the sole supply? How long can storage supply the needed power is the next question ? The needed storage and transmission changes are hard and expensive.
by simonw | 2025-10-01 20:59:19+00:00
Codex CLI had some huge upgrades in the past few months.

Before the GPT-5 release it was a poor imitation IMO - in the macOS terminal it somehow even disabled copy and paste!

Codex today is almost unrecognizable in comparison to that version. It's really good. I use both it and Claude Code almost interchangeably at the moment and I'm not really feeling that one is notably better than the other.
by boerseth | 2025-10-01 20:59:31+00:00
I was gonna say. I did it with French some years ago and it worked like a charm.

Later I became obsessed with Argentine tango. Unfortunately, I thought, "comprehensible input" won't work with dancing, especially not a couple's dance. Nevertheless, unable to dance every day due to my local scene being quite small, I instead consumed a boatload of YouTube videos during my spare time. Instructional content, performances, class summaries, and what have you. And I progressed super quickly.

First off, as a leader, it is good to have seen competent dancers with good musicality and how they choose their steps to fit with phrases of songs. That much fits in parallel with input-based language acquisition techniques. But I also think I gained a good amound of intuition about how to move my own body. Not perfect intuition, but more than nothing, which was very much my starting point.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-01 20:59:41+00:00
This is obviously selection bias, because as a hiring manager, I generally see the most motivated students.

But holy smokes, there are some A-game kids out there that are prepared and willing to put in the work for an opportunity.

I don't remember it being this competitive when I was a student. Maybe I wasn't in that top echelon like they are, but still.
by tikhonj | 2025-10-01 20:59:55+00:00
I've also worked on some relatively senior/high-trust teams using roughly scrum-style processes, and the experience was decidedly worse. Even with the best setup and intentions in the world, the process still makes focusing on small, individual tasks the path of least resistance, which leads to less collaborative, more short-term focused work with less flexibility and ownership.

A sufficiently strong team can make even a bad process work out okay, but that just means they're strong enough to compensate for the process, not that the process had any latent merit.
by 9dev | 2025-10-01 21:00:16+00:00
Well I can tell you from day-to-day experience in Germany that the fact it’s illegal to say „Heil Hitler“ and similar nazi slogans draws a very clear line between ordinary citizens and right extremists. It’s a good thing nobody can walk around and loudly proclaim their veneration for the darkest period in our history, for doing so makes them an enemy of our democracy and everything it stands for. A society has to have limits to the tolerable, and defend them.

This has worked well for more than half a century here, and I assure you that Germany hasn’t succumbed to a totalitarian regime yet. Quite the opposite to some, erm, land of the free that seems to struggle a lot with freedom lately.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-01 21:00:47+00:00
This is a good article. Dan Meyer, like his PhD supervisor Jo Boaler, is very much in the camp that traditional classroom education is good, and that improvements come by working through school districts, administrators and classroom teachers.

I'm not saying this to cast doubt on any of the facts in the article. Just pointing out that Dan, in general, has a less optimistic view of AI in education, than I'd expect of the median HN commenter.

That said, I'll share my thoughts on Alpha School, based on everything I've read (both things published by the school, and things I've read from parents online and in private forums):

- the '2x growth' in their marketing is way oversold; their typical 4th grader isn't doing math at the level of a typical 8th grader.[0]

- the '2 hours/day' in their marketing is oversold; students often work longer than that.

- only 25% of their students use Math Academy. The rest use IXL or ALEKS.

- in their charter school application, the amount they proposed charging for their software platform was unreasonable, given the minor role it plays in outcomes (10% according to Matt Bateman, who works there) [1]

- the core idea of their 'timeback' platform (that monitors student activity in realtime via video camera and screen recording) is good, but I have not seen it and have no idea whether it's real or how good it is

More of my thoughts from back in April: https://x.com/RahimNathwani/status/1912571014107787730

[0] https://x.com/RahimNathwani/status/1971804784475996469

https://x.com/RahimNathwani/status/1971817857286803873

[1] https://x.com/RahimNathwani/status/1912586493086036148