MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajb | 2025-11-01 07:22:29+00:00
That's the picture you'd get if there was an unemployment problem, but what we actually have is an aging population and a productivity problem: it's really telling that most people's idea of changing their working life for the better is in effect to move to a lower productivity role in the higher end of their market: Individually making and selling things, or having their own tiny influencer brand, or leaving a company to start a one-man business.

We have a housing deficit, so abandoned houses are unusual, and mostly in places where people are moving away.

However "having transitioned quite well out of the factory economy" is definitely too rosy. We did "what the market wanted" but it turns out the market is not a strategist. And we have too large a population to exist purely as an offshore financing hub.
by hinkley | 2025-11-01 07:22:31+00:00
Why aren’t what 128bit UUIDs?

> keeping names concise without triggering transposition or reading comprehension errors.

Code that doesn’t work for developers first will soon cease to work for anyone. Plus how do you look up a uuid for a set of tags? What’s your perfect hash plan to make sure you don’t misattribute stats to the wrong place?

UUIDs are entirely opaque and difficult to tell apart consistently.
by lukan | 2025-11-01 07:23:29+00:00
"As far as i see Hitler lost the war the moment he decided to stop his attempts to take over UK."

Improvisation is one thing. But tons of cheaply massproduced T34 (or Sherman) another one. The german warmachine was actually not so good at mass producing and had a faible for overengeneering and Hitler well, "was thinking big" (but with no connection to reality)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte

Full invasion of UK would have been very expensive and Hitlers main ideological goal from the start was gaining new land in the east. ("Blood and earth")

And they came very close to Moscow. If they would have succeded, they would have settled with the west for sure somehow.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-01 07:23:32+00:00
The action itself is trivial, sure, but that and the quora answer itself kind of indicates the issue has been living in their head for at least 15 years, which is a rather long time for a dumb quip to be taking up any amount of mental space. Most people wouldn't even think of the idea of taking a domain name for the purpose of an internet argument. Granted, most people don't have that internet argument continuously referenced for decades, but I doubt 99.99% of later readership outside of the original mailing list were thinking about the name randomly being called out and were more interested in it solely for etymology's sake.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-01 07:23:44+00:00
> Would knowing that Claude is maybe kinda sorta conscious lead more people to subscribe to it?

For anyone having paid attention, it has been clear for the past two years that Dario Amodei is lobbying for strict regulation on LLMs to prevent new entrants on the market, and the core of its argument is that LLMs are fundamentally intelligent and dangerous.

So this kind of “research” isn't targeted towards their customers but towards the legislators.
by hannob | 2025-11-01 07:24:17+00:00
Counterpoint: XML is a horrible format.

Why? Answer this question: how can you use XML in a way that does not create horrible security vulnerabilities?

I know the answer, but it is extremely nontrivial, and highly dependent on which programming language, library, and sometimes even which library function you use. The fact that there's no easy way to use XML without creating a security footgun is reason enough to avoid it.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-11-01 07:25:06+00:00
One might think that as technology progresses more and more pieces of older technologies get revived and incorporated into the available tooling. Yet the very opposite thing happens: good and working parts are removed because the richest companies on Earth "cannot afford" to keep them.

In 19th century Russia there was a thinker, N. F. Fedorov, who wanted to revive all dead people. He saw it as the ultimate goal of humanity. (He worked in a library, a very telling occupation. He spent most of what he earned to support others.) We do not know how to revive dead people or if we can do that at all; but we certainly can revive old tech or just not let it die.

Of course, this job is not for everyone. We cannot count on the richest, apparently, they're too busy getting richer. This is a job for monks.
by physicsguy | 2025-11-01 07:25:47+00:00
My experience is mostly practical really - the trick is to learn how to compile stuff yourself.

If you do a typical: "cmake . && make install" then you will often miss compiler optimisations. There's no standard across different packages so you often have to dig into internals of the build system and look at the options provided and experiment.

Typically if you compile a C/C++/Fortran .cpp/.c/.fXX file by hand, you have to supply arguments to instruct the use of specific instruction sets. -march=native typically means "compile this binary to run with the maximum set of SIMD instrucitons that my current machine supports" but you can get quite granular doing things like "-march=sse4,avx,avx2" for either compatibility reasons or to try out subsets.
by schiffern | 2025-11-01 07:26:00+00:00
To answer my own question, competitive cubing uses unbiased randomization algorithms.[0] To minimize scrambling time, it could fairly generate a random configuration and then optimally scramble the cube in ~18 moves.[1]

TL;DR fair scrambling is exactly as fast (same throughout) as solving random cubes! Neat.

[0] https://www.cubelelo.com/blogs/cubing/how-to-scramble-a-rubi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_solutions_for_the_Rubi...
by Ekaros | 2025-11-01 07:26:25+00:00
I wonder could this be expanded to other areas. Say you run a ski-resort. Any broken bones and other issues are fully on you. To unlimited liability, piercing any corporate setup. Could really work for any sports too.

Food, tobacco, alcohol get more interesting... As there is bit harder time to assign blame of each meal. Maybe in those cases the claimants should be able to fully list everything they have ingested over say past 10 years. So that liability can be fairly and exactly distributed.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-01 07:26:45+00:00
No I think it's a deeper issue than that. In particular because exceptions aren't a return value, you can't make a function generic over both values and exceptions at the same time. This would persist even with first class functions.

If you want to be generic over exceptions, you have to throw an exception. It would be nice to have e.g. a single `map` method that appropriately throws an exception when the function that is called throws a function and one that doesn't throw an exception when the function that is called throws a function. But as it stands, if you want to be able to throw a checked exception at all, you have to mark that your higher order function throws checked exceptions, even if you would prefer to be more generic so that e.g. you only throw a checked exception if your function that is called throws a checked exception.
by csomar | 2025-11-01 07:26:47+00:00
There is no comparison. A quick search about Pinnacle: https://www.reddit.com/r/sportsbook/comments/kek5t8/warning_...

My experience (though I have never bet on these platforms) is that Pinnacle-like platforms almost never let you withdraw your "earnings". They are essentially a bookie.

Polymarket on the other hand, is just an exchange. And they use Defi to make sure you can always withdraw your bounty even if you get "front-end" banned from their platform.

So to affirm the previous poster: These companies are not in the same business.
by dns_snek | 2025-11-01 07:27:40+00:00
> I'd hate to get all true scotsman but a true leftist would never preach for prohibition as a solution for vice.

That's what happens when you squash a multi-dimensional space of political beliefs down into a single dimension of left-right. You can't have a meaningful discussion about anything from this starting point.

Viewed from a 2-dimensional spectrum this problem lies on the social authoritarian-libertarian axis, not the economic left-right axis.

I'd consider myself a "true leftist" and while I don't think prohibition usually works, I also don't believe in absolutes of liberalism where everything goes - where corner shops can sell heroin and if you fall into addiction that's just your own moral failing.

I support individuals' freedom to use drugs in a controlled, responsible manner, but there need to be limits somewhere to protect naive individuals from getting themselves into something they'll regret and to protect society from collapsing.
by ido | 2025-11-01 07:31:28+00:00
Maybe it's my own personal bias but I feel that these stories of low, slow growth; small teams, small wins but consistency are becoming more norm. While I realize there is still plenty of froth, it's inspiring and makes me hopeful for an industry shift in that direction.

I prefer small teams myself too, but do keep in mind "an industry shift in that direction" would also mean far less demand for developers...
by kodefreeze | 2025-11-01 07:31:31+00:00
I just did this test with our web QA agent - kodefreeze.com, it was able to test creating an account until it reached the screen that requires email confirmation.

Support for being able to receive email/custom actions is on our roadmap, but would love to see if getting this far would be valuable to you. The test was with the email=test@kodefreeze.com.
by krzyk | 2025-11-01 07:32:00+00:00
Not quite. My anecdotal examples. I'm Polish.

I was in Crimea for about 2 weeks (in 2012) they split me Russian there. I couldn't understand a word they said. And I didn't learn to understand than for 2 weeks of travel there.

I could understand some words from Ukrainian (I traveled by train from Lviv).

Another example is Croatian, I've been there on vacation and renting a room. I couldn't understand a word they said and didn't learn any.

TlI can understand some Czech (because this is the closest language together with Slovakian to Polish) but that's it.

I wouldn't mix Slavs from different groups together. They evolved separately and are as close as English and German.
by csomar | 2025-11-01 07:36:53+00:00
In 30 years they'll be a huge liability for the state. In the past, they used to send them to meat grinders (wars). Somehow later it was figured out that a mandatory cut of their paycheck will give them a small payment later in their retirement years. But now that social security is broken (both in the US and Europe) and short-term thinking is the norm, every "business men" is salivating at the opportunity.

In a couple decades, they'll be a massive drag on society and could even collapse countries. France is kind of a good example of how that future will look like.
by Greenpants | 2025-11-01 07:39:55+00:00
I got a personal Mac Studio M4 Max with 128GB RAM for a silent, relatively power-efficient yet powerful home server. It runs Ollama + Open WebUI with GPT-OSS 120b as well as GLM4.5-Air (default quantisations). I rarely ever use ChatGPT anymore. Love that all data stays at home. I connect remotely only via VPN (my phone enables this automatically via Tasker).

I'm 50% brainstorming ideas with it, asking critical questions and learning something new. The other half is actual development, where I describe very clearly what I know I'll need (usually in TODOs in comments) and it will write those snippets, which is my preferred way of AI-assistance. I stay in the driver seat; the model becomes the copilot. Human-in-the-loop and such. Worked really well for my website development, other personal projects and even professionally (my work laptop has its own Open WebUI account for separation).
by portaouflop | 2025-11-01 07:40:55+00:00
I hope you succeed. But I think it’s all down to luck; of course some work is required but I don’t think that hard work necessarily matters. Or any of the stuff you mentioned. In my experience you can do all the “mistakes” you mentioned and still come out on top. And not to piss in your cereal but having leads for $bigcorp means nothing until a deal is inked.

Ps: and I’m very pessimistic; the scary thing is it’s all random as shit
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-01 07:42:21+00:00
>That looks like someone made a list of mostly features specific to GrapheneOS so they could make a chart where all of the other alternatives (including stock Android) are full of red boxes.

No one else even bothered to make a list.

>Several of those are the opposite of security features, like SafetyNet support, which might be a convenience in some cases but it mostly makes it so you can't upgrade certain parts of the system to newer versions even when the old versions have security vulnerabilities.

Citation needed
by simianparrot | 2025-11-01 07:42:42+00:00
I live in reality. It's me first, then it's my family and my close friends, and then my local community and then, finally, local charities. That's how my budget works. A budget is money in and money out. And when all of that is good, then maybe I'll think about larger charities where I can't be directly involved to see where my help actually goes.
by deaux | 2025-11-01 07:43:35+00:00
The biggest difference is that the honeypot phones come with their own custom apps all claiming to have completely secure communications. That's their selling point, the set of apps, or even a single one, which they claim is unbreakable. The criminals buying these phones aren't interested in just GrapheneOS on its own. Clearly they don't consider something like Signal secure enough, even if run on GrapheneOS.
by trhway | 2025-11-01 07:44:57+00:00
>But tons of cheaply massproduced T34 (or Sherman) another one.

Absolutely, and UK shines at that too - they produced 130K aircrafts (US - 350K, USSR - 150K) and 47K tanks (US - 110K, USSR - 120)

>The german warmachine was actually not so good at mass producing

and the US and UK bombers were a major reason
by hinkley | 2025-11-01 07:45:04+00:00
I’ve known some people who can read the tea leaves through three levels of management. I have no idea how they do it. Just like most people don’t know how I do it through two.

But cross purposes get in there and even if you know what the EM or CTO really wants the PM may be hell bent to give them something else. And use narrative to explain why it tastes funny.
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-01 07:45:58+00:00
You're asking it if it can feel the presence of an unusual thought. If it works, it's obviously not going to say the exact same thing it would have said without the question. That's not what is meant by 'alteration'.

It doesn't matter if it's 'altered' if the alteration doesn't point to the concept in question. It doesn't start spitting out content that will allow you to deduce the concept from the output alone. That's all that matters.
by fragmede | 2025-11-01 07:46:03+00:00
HN is that niche community though. HN is a forum targeting a niche community that skews technical no matter where someone is physically from, and that community skews relatively rich. Concern trolling that there are starving kids in Africa when there are literal billionaires posting here; I mean sure, I'm not saying we shouldn't say something for fear of their feelings. Nor am I saying that everyone here must be rich in order to comment her. Just that some members of the niche community can recognize are inordinately rich. Advertising eg the Volonaut here will likely generate a couple of sales, and if you thought a $3k laptop was a lot, definitely don't look that one up.
by solatic | 2025-11-01 07:46:16+00:00
For what it's worth, this is the difference between private-sector and public-sector development. The public sector would have instead argued for some budget to hire developers to maintain libxslt and issue RFPs for grant money to rewrite it in Rust for memory safety guarantees. The private sector decides that it's just not a profitable use of resources and moves to cancel support.

The question isn't whether or not you use XSLT yourself, it's whether you use a different feature that could be deemed unprofitable and slammed on the chopping block. And therefore a question of whether it wouldn't be better for everyone for this work to be publicly funded instead.
by Andromxda | 2025-11-01 07:46:38+00:00
GrapheneOS releases patches very quickly, often even faster than OEMs do. But patches are only useful for fixing individual known vulnerabilities. GrapheneOS additionally focuses on defending against whole classes of vulnerabilities. [1] For example, in addition to fixing memory corruption bugs in individual system components, GrapheneOS has deployed memory protections for the entire OS in the form of hardened_malloc [2] and by enabling the ARM memory tagging extension for the kernel, most system processes (with very few exceptions) and all user-installed apps.

The honeypot theories don't make sense, since GrapheneOS is fully open source, and very transparent about developers, funding, infrastructure, and other internal stuff.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-protection

[2] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
by johnisgood | 2025-11-01 07:46:53+00:00
> It means you're paying for some relatively expensive full locks that the Rust async task management is trying to elide, for what can be quite significant performance gains if you're doing a lot of small tasks.

The point of Erlang/Elixir is that it is as performant as possible, and Erlang's history is a testament to this. BEAM is wonderful, and really fast, along with the languages on it being ergonomic (OTP behaviors, supervisors, etc.).
by PMunch | 2025-11-01 07:48:45+00:00
Of course, I'm heavily biased, but also very interested in mediating any such issues. I obviously can't, or wouldn't want to, force you to report anything. But it would be very appreciated if you, or anyone else reading this with similar experiences, could report it here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZWa2GONAM825IxFt8ZOdfn_XeJy...
by DaSHacka | 2025-11-01 07:49:25+00:00
> It’s unfortunate the US decided to go back in time rather than look to the future but eventually, very few (if any) services would rely on US corps.

I was unaware the country travelled back in time!

Surely you have a specific example of a way in which U.S. based technology companies have significantly and irrefutively regressed to demonstrate your point, since you appear to talk as though it's a foretold conclusion this delusion will come to pass.

Has the same energy as the people shouting "the death of Silicon Valley is neigh!!!" whenever a random washed-up company mkves their HQ from the Bay area to some tax haven state (and half the time retains their offices and personnel in SV anyway)
by jmspring | 2025-11-01 07:50:38+00:00
I’m lost at “the public sector would have argued for some budget”. Xslt and libxslt are used across a no - trivial amount of deployments.

Why would the public sector feel bound to support it as opposed to pivot in the same direction the winds are blowing?

Outside the idiocy of this particular administration in the US, gov is pivoting toward more commercial norms (with compliance/etc for gov cloud and etc compliance).
by hu3 | 2025-11-01 07:50:55+00:00
Same. I currently have a 160hz and a 240hz monitor. And I can tell the difference between them when scrolling pages with tons of text.

There's less ghosting in 240hz.

And scrolling on 60hz to me looks blurry.

I'd like to think that those who don't notice the difference have improved brain GPUs that can compensate for ghosting.
by schrijver | 2025-11-01 07:52:20+00:00
Knitting / crocheting / quilting / embroidering? Drawing / painting / calligraphy? Singing in a choir? Creative writing / journaling / blogging? Solving crossword puzzles? Bird watching? Day hikes? Reading? Visiting museums? Learning about history / philosophy / art / whatever? Learning a language? Taking dance classes? Playing chess or petanque or any other game that doesn’t require expensive gear? Or most sports?
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-11-01 07:53:21+00:00
Personal take :

The iPhone and services that go with the iPhone (music apps iCloud) together make apple what it is even today. The numbers are huge and the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro are still the gold standard of smartphones. Everything else is probably secondary support hardware and software for the iPhone.

I plan on moving away from macOS (maybe Asahi on my old M1 Air but leaning towards Arch on framework) but every attempt to reconsider the iPhone for me has failed.

The biggest thing I see is how the iPhone helped fuel social media and in turn social media helped iPhone with sales. The phone is a social and secure device and the iPhone excels at that thanks to iCloud services and the ease with which you can manage the phone. Upgrading is so seamless, managing Photos with iCloud is a no-brainer. Everything about it screams social and it does it extremely well.

The personal computer vs Mac war is still ongoing but android vs iPhone war was over years ago. The iPhone won and there is not much anyone can do at this point to compete at that scale unless someone comes up with something truly extraordinary rather than just putting LLMs inside apps.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-11-01 07:55:02+00:00
Yep, they remind me of the free 'domains' you used to be able to get back in 2000-2005 that were crap like mydomain.ko.cc. By far the least legitimate one I see is .ai - I seem to immediately write those off as some half-baked chatgpt wrapper, or worse a landing page for a product that doesn't exist that would also just be a chatgpt wrapper if enough fools handover their email address. That said, I do like .io for tech sites. I think domains by area/industry are mostly sensible.
by fragmede | 2025-11-01 07:56:01+00:00
Fwiw, I can't remember the last time I bought a physical sim at an airport. Airalo lets me buy an eSim at the departing airport, which means I've got cell data from the instant I arrive. They're not the only company offering this, and I'm sure I could min max and find a more cost optimized service, but it's done me well enough. Depending on the amount of international travel you do, and to where, however, US travellers may have a better time with a carrier like T-Mobile which include international data to a number of countries.
by DaSHacka | 2025-11-01 07:56:19+00:00
> There are high compliance and migration cost for switching with no immediate gain for the business.

But america bad! Surely that's reason enough to skirt all logistic business requirements and drop U.S. companies?

Like, Trump! And... Republicans!

Clearly, their private sector doesn't exist anymore, because a guy we don't like is in charge of the public sector.

Frankly, we need to reduce our reliance on U.S. tech because of how undemocratic they have become. I, for one, think China looks like a great potential ally.
by rplnt | 2025-11-01 07:56:38+00:00
At least until a certain level, scrambling (according to a given "algorithm") is a good way to practice moves. It shouldn't take much longer than a solution either, you are not solving the cube in under 30 moves. And if you don't care about the scramble it's even faster. So I don't think the "way more time" is entirely accurate. It may feel like it though.
by al_borland | 2025-11-01 07:57:06+00:00
This is the worst part. You’d think with a dramatic increase in supply that we’d see prices fall to almost nothing. Domains are priced as if anyone buying them is planning to start a billion dollar business, and the URL is instrumental in its success.

This discourages me from wanting to buy domains for a hobby project, or even for my own email. This whole industry seems like a big scam. Domain squatters don’t help the situation.