MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by syncsynchalt | 2025-12-12 22:26:34+00:00
Do you know if those characters are in supplemental planes? The BMP would only be glyphs from U+0000 through U+FFFF (though the first 32 and last two aren't printable, and wouldn't be included in this font).

Another example would be emoji, which would probably now be considered "basic" by most people but have always been in a supplemental plane.
by jaredklewis | 2025-12-12 22:26:37+00:00
I don't think technology is a linear progression towards more and more capital intense businesses.

Software businesses in the 2000-2020 era were famously capital light. Much more so than the technology businesses that came before them. I think these extremely capital light businesses were an aberration that briefly lowered average founder age and now we're just reverting to the mean.

Yes, AI is capital intense, but many of the world's previous technological endeavors were also capital heavy.
by uberman | 2025-12-12 22:26:38+00:00
I've been a dev at a big tech company, a consultant, a tech lead at a huge manufacturer, a founder, an educator, and a father. Here are my three bits of advice.

1) You can never get back your kid's childhood no mater how hard you work.

2) The time to take big financial risks for big financial rewards was before you had a family, particularly before you had a kid.

3) Getting a new well paying job at a big tech company in the event that your AI asperations don't come to fruition is likely going to be a challenge. At least that is my understanding from what I read about the current economic landscape.

The way people talk about AI powered everything reminds me of how people talked about block chain powered everything a few years ago. Don't get me wrong, I love working with Claude but I get the distinct impression that many marketing people confuse a case statement as being "Powered by AI". I use AI code assist every day but I'm not going to bet the farm on joining/founding a startup that is "Zillow for <something> powered by AI".
by gruez | 2025-12-12 22:27:08+00:00
>It's illegal for the cops to put a GPS tracker on your car to track your movements without a signed search warrant. But it's legal for them to place so many cameras that they can do the same thing with no warrant? Bullshit.

It's not any "bullshit" then the fact that police don't need a warrant to follow you. It might be tempting to report with some variant of the "2nd amendment was only intended for muskets" argument, pointing out that the founding fathers never imagined a cop at every street corner, but then you have to deal with all the associated implications. For instance, does that mean first amendment protections don't extend to the internet?
by saisrirampur | 2025-12-12 22:27:28+00:00
Great question! If you’re starting a greenfield application, pg_clickhouse makes a lot of sense since you’ll be using a unified query layer for your application.

Now, coming to your question about replication: you can use PeerDB (acquired by ClickHouse https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb), which is laser-focused and battle-tested at scale for Postgres-to-ClickHouse replication. Once the data is replicated into ClickHouse, you can start querying those tables from within Postgres using pg_clickhouse. In ClickHouse Cloud, we offer ClickPipes for Postgres CDC/replication, which is a managed service version of PeerDB and is tightly integrated with ClickHouse. Now there could be non-transcational tables that you can directly ingest to ClickHouse and still query using pg_clickhouse.

So TL;DR: Postgres for OLTP; ClickHouse for OLAP; PeerDB/ClickPipes for data replication; pg_clickhouse as the unified query layer. We are actively working on making this entire stack tightly integrated so that building real-time apps becomes seamless. More on that soon! :)
by dwattttt | 2025-12-12 22:27:31+00:00
> The Python devs, by contrast, have actually put in a lot of work over the years to support a plethora of operating system

This pre-pep is proposed by core Python devs. The discussion includes comparing the supported targets of both Python and Rust, the people who are left worse off are devs external to both groups, who've made Python work on unsupported targets (e.g. Gentoo, who are represented in the thread).
by thomascountz | 2025-12-12 22:27:58+00:00
NTSB Statement: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Aut...

Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation proposed amendment: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/119th-congress/senate-ame...

SA 3969. Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mr. Cruz) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1071, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike section 373.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-12 22:28:31+00:00
> Step 1 would be passing an update to the Sherman Act through Congress that would survive the current Supreme Court.

The nice thing about antitrust laws is that they're right in the core of the interstate commerce clause, so it's a real stretch to find them unconstitutional and in practice that hasn't been what has happened. Instead, because the Sherman Act is extremely broad but not very detailed, they've just been narrowly interpreting it. Which wouldn't work if you would pass something that explicitly spelled out some of the things. Like just go make a list of all the existing antitrust cases where something bad was found not to be a violation and make a line in the new law that explicitly calls out that one as "yes it is". Which deletes all the precedents anyone could use to claim that their bad behavior is allowed, since Congress just explicitly said that it isn't.

Another great improvement would be to allow anyone to sue for antitrust violations instead of requiring the government prosecutor to do it.

It would also help to get some bipartisanship happening. The current Court has a conservative majority but you only need to convince two out of six, and some of them are more partisan than others, which actually gives you two ways to win. One, you make a good argument and convince the reasonable ones. Two, you stir up the conservative base against some California corporations. Probably easier to do the next time there is a Democratic administration because then they'll start kowtowing to the new administration instead of Trump and thereby anger the conservatives again.
by krisoft | 2025-12-12 22:29:12+00:00
> traffic lights by design are very clearly red, or green

I suspect you feel this because you are observing the output of a very sophisticated image processing pipeline in your own head. When you are dealing with raw matrixes of rgb values it all becomes a lot more fuzzy. Especially when you encounter different illuminations, exposures and the cropping of the traffic light has noise on it. Not saying it is some intractably hard machine vision problem, because it is not. But there is some variety and fuzzyness there in the raw sensor measurements.
by mpweiher | 2025-12-12 22:29:44+00:00
> China has been scaling back and delaying their nuclear program in favor of renewables since Fukushima.

Not "has". "Had". The whole world held their breath after Fukushima.

Now that everybody knows that nothing really consequential happened apart from state overreaction, Japan, China and the rest of the world are no longer holding their breath.

China has been approving 10 or more nuclear power plants per year the last couple of years. Given the lifetime of 80 years of modern nuclear reactors and Little's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law) that implies an expected fleet size of 800 reactors. At 1.2 - 1.4GW per reactors, that would be slightly above 1 TW of generating capacity, which is enough for 90% of current Chinese electricity production.
by jacobgkau | 2025-12-12 22:30:16+00:00
> And we all turned out fine I might add.

Absolutely not. You might personally feel like (or want to tell yourself that) porn didn't negatively affect you. I can tell you with certainty that porn negatively affected my social and sexual development. (I was literally afraid to physically open my mouth around girls when I was 10 years old because of porn.)

> Of course not counting the toxic masculine far right but that doesn't have anything to do with porn but everything with hate.

There are plenty of pipelines between porn and "toxic masculinity."
by thway15269037 | 2025-12-12 22:31:33+00:00
Now I'm curious: does this situation classify as force-majeure for a major firms? "Hey, you know, actually our entire consumer base just disappeared overnight. Crazy, huh?". And will various governments have to intervene to save them when/if that happens.

Not taking into account that they all be busy handing money to openAI, at least someone somewhere has to notice that something is very wrong.
by plipt | 2025-12-12 22:31:34+00:00
For sure, I hear you

I just want affordable, linux-powered displays in a slim tablet form factor. Performance and battery life are not a priority for my use case

Unfortunately I feel anything sold as a tablet comes with the assumption that it needs to compete with an iPad and be used for content consumption and gaming.

Ive seen raspberry pi kits sold that do just about everything else but this.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-12 22:31:41+00:00
> This is perfectly reasonable fair use.

Well thats questionable actually

Sure the _result_ is transformative, but it had to consume the content in the first place to make a transformative. (grey area).

Yes, you _could_ argue that its a plain review, but you need to prove that its actually reviewing it rather than just quoting. But as its the machine doing it, that further muddies the water. Is it the end user whos generating the review? does the kindle license actually allow them to do that?

However, the other thing to note is that there is a contract between publishers and amazon that go over and above copyright. It will say how and where works can be distributed and how they can be processed. For example you're not able to distribute the book and then create your own audiobook version of it.
by neogodless | 2025-12-12 22:31:43+00:00
I often feel like a "giver" in conversations, asking all the questions but never being given opportunities to share my own stories or viewpoint...

I seek and value friends that DO ask about me, and then try to remind myself to not take it for granted, and return the favor to them!

This gives some additional lens, though, to be flexible with "takers" and give them credit for putting themselves out there.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-12 22:31:43+00:00
Ah, so I can buy XBox games from the PlayStation store?

Naturally not, Microsoft has to pay the Sony tax to publish their games into the PlayStation.

There are more mobile devices than people, since not everyone has a phone, naturally there are enough people with multiple phones.

Finally, people do browse the Internet, watch TV, and even have a general app store in XBox's case.
by droptablemain | 2025-12-12 22:31:50+00:00
You make dangerous assumptions about me in order to justify your preexisting view of poverty and socioeconomic mobility.

My background is very poor. Food stamps, raised by single mom, whole nine yards. For most of my 20s I existed in the very same cycle of bad financial decisions that many other poor people engage in.

My situation had approximately a 0% chance of changing until the behavior changed. That doesn't mean behavioral changes are always enough, but they are the absolute bare minimum and an excellent starting point.

People I still know in bad situations refuse to acknowledge this and refuse to critically examine their decisions. They do nothing but avoid, avoid, avoid and hope for a miraculous windfall.
by overfeed | 2025-12-12 22:32:15+00:00
For private instances, you can get down to 0 scrapers by firewalling http/s ports from the Internet and using Wireguard. I knew it was time to batten down the hatches when fail2ban became the top process by bytes written in iotop (between ssh log in attempts and nginx logs).

The cost of the open, artisanal web has shot up due to greed and incompetence, the crawlers are poorly written.
by derriz | 2025-12-12 22:32:25+00:00
> The energy mix in Germany leads to a situation where electric cars are dirtier than diesel (for the first ~200000 km / 125000 miles driven).

Renewable share of electricity production is about 56% so this claim is not at all credible.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-nearly-5...
by Ethee | 2025-12-12 22:33:15+00:00
And that should be expected. Leverage in this situation doesn't mean you get the cream of the crop for nothing. In this sense it means that you get applications that fit your role. When the market was flipped you were hard pressed to find people that actually matched at least half of your role requirements. Now even your statement gives away how much that has changed that you're only looking at the 'top applicants'. Now, you have so many people that fit you're struggling because you want the perfect ones.
by vips7L | 2025-12-12 22:33:37+00:00
I don't think Oracle/OpenJdk really cares about Kotlin. It's usage is still minuscule compared to Java the language, and you're still using Java the platform by using it. I'm not sure they're really concerned about Rust either because it doesn't fill the same use cases. Go might be a concern, but who knows. I personally find Go the language to be worse then Java the language.
by moregrist | 2025-12-12 22:33:58+00:00
> I keep seeing article after article from hiring managers about how they're FLOODED with applications. You can't be 'polite' to all those people, as most people don't have the attention span for all that.

I dunno. Being polite in the context of a job application is pretty basic: if the applicant didn’t make it to a phone screen, send them a polite form letter telling them that.

It doesn’t require much attention, just a little automation and caring enough to actually respond.

For those that made it to a phone screen but not past it, a polite rejection email is also sufficient.

This doesn’t seem like a lot to me.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-12 22:34:19+00:00
So if you believe that AI does "think" you are expected to show me that it really does.

A lot of people seemingly haven't updated their priors after some of the more interesting results published lately, such as the performance of Google's and OpenAI's models at the 2025 Math Olympiad. Would you say that includes yourself?

If so, what do the models still have to do in order to establish that they are capable of all major forms of reasoning, and under what conditions will you accept such proof?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-12 22:34:48+00:00
No the justification for the article is TVs that track your watching no matter what you watching and selling it to advertisers.

Apple tracks what you are watching on AppleTV only.

I’m on this thread because I understand technology.

Are you saying that if you are watching something like “South Park” you wouldn’t want the service that you are watching it on to keep track of where you are in its 25 season run?
by cyberax | 2025-12-12 22:35:18+00:00
> Think about it this way: totally free apps with no IAP get reviewed by Apple too, and there's no charge to the developer except the $99 Apple Developer Program membership fee

Yearly fee. And about $500 a year in hardware depreciation, because you can reasonably develop for Apple _only_ on Apple hardware.

This is _way_ more than Microsoft has ever charged, btw.
by amelius | 2025-12-12 22:35:38+00:00
From another point of view, the font is just as tall as other fonts, just less wide. So I suspect you are (maybe unconsciously) making an unfair comparison by scaling one font more than the other.

You can see an apples-to-apples comparison here:

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#iosevka

(and then put and hold your finger on the last line of text and select another font)
by simondotau | 2025-12-12 22:35:52+00:00
Yes, basically everybody needs a phone running Android or iOS. But they don’t need Fortnite on their phone.

If the government wanted to proscribe store rates for productivity apps only, I’d be more receptive. But it’s ridiculous for the government to proscribe rates for game sales, especially if they aren’t doing the same for all game stores.
by pegasus | 2025-12-12 22:36:02+00:00
It's more than just that, but thanks for that link, I've been meaning to dig it up and revisit it. Beyond hallucinations, there are also deceptive behaviors like hiding uncertainty, omitting caveats or doubling down on previous statements even when weaknesses are pointed out to it. Plus there necessarily will be lies in the training data as well, sometimes enough of them to skew the pretrained/unaligned model itself.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-12-12 22:36:15+00:00
Does it matter ?

No really, I'm not trying to be edgy. Does the font we're using to read a document matters??

Last time I checked, scientist agreed that the best for an average user is the font you're used to. Serif, sans serif,.. didn't matter. Just keep using the one you always used.

So I don't get why every so often, Google work on a new font. Pick one and stick to it, user don't care.

Or am I missing something ?

BTW, personnel opinion but the only fonts i found to really look better than anything else were apple fonts. They don't make things easier to read but they just look so nice whereas Google always feel meh.
by jacobgkau | 2025-12-12 22:36:43+00:00
My point is that being enabled by default on all new devices 1) would also be fought by people very similar to you (if not you specifically), and 2) would not be effective if the enabled-by-default software is not effective, which would also require additional work that you and people like you would fight.

I do agree it could be done. I disagree with your characterization that it would be easy/easier, or that the current age verification efforts are entirely nefarious and not actually trying to work the problem.
by laurencerowe | 2025-12-12 22:37:18+00:00
Existing nuclear reactors produce incredibly cheap power. The German decision to stop theirs before coal should be considered an environmental crime.

Finns should be super happy with Nuclear since the cost overruns were overwhelmingly born by Areva (majority owned by the French state) which accumulated losses of €5.5 billion and went bust!

As a nuclear weapons power the UK has a national security interest to keep its nuclear industry around. It needs to build some reactors to do that, but given the prices of new nuclear I don't expect it to build more than the minimum necessary.

Hinkley Point C comes in at £92.50/MWh in 2012 prices (£128.90 in 2024 prices). At the last auction wind prices were £54.23/MWh in 2012 prices (£75.68/MWh 2024 prices).

Now those prices for intermittent wind exclude the cost of providing backup power with gas but that is still much cheaper than nuclear.
Show HN: I needed to record mobile web demos with my face, so I built this
by admtal | 2025-12-12 22:37:37+00:00
I make web games and wanted to record demos on my phone with a face cam overlay - like you see on YouTube/TikTok gameplay videos. Couldn’t find anything that did this well, so I built Demo Scope. It’s an iOS app with a built-in browser. Load any site, position a draggable/resizable face cam, and record. Shows touch indicators so viewers can see what you’re tapping. Also supports RTMP streaming if you want to go live.

Free to download and use, $9.99 one-time purchase to remove watermark for life.

https://demoscope.app

Would love feedback from anyone doing mobile demos or content creation.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-12 22:37:41+00:00
I’d do the startups only if they’re once in a lifetime opportunities. I’ve seen that work for people with young kids because it would eat them up inside NOT to do it.

But probably not to just “get startup experience”. Having a kid is a time to not upset your routines if you can manage it. Startups have very wide variance in experiences compared to roles at big company in my experience. Just switching jobs would be difficult.

I had a cushy year at a comfortable job when my first kid was born. I did more the founder thing (write a career changing book) when my second kid was born.
by mpweiher | 2025-12-12 22:38:24+00:00
I asked you where you were getting the 18 cents/kWh hour from.

Which you did not answer.

And then you accuse me of referencing unsourced statistics and lying.

Hmm...

The 6.5 years figure is from here:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

"Current european nuclear" is completely atypical and unrepresentative. The numbers are too low to be statistically significant anyhow, but on top of that they were all FOAK builds, all of a single (base) design that has been deemed too difficult to build by its manufacturer and thus discontinued, and mostly built in countries with little recent nuclear experience.

The HPC build, for example, was very explicitly intended to build up the UK nuclear industry, which was a significant part of the cost.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-12 22:39:08+00:00
Having worked with accounting body standards (NAIC), I can tell you that it really does nothing to improve quality. Especially when parts of the standard encode things like COBOL PIC number symbols. [1]

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.4.0?topic=arithmetic...
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 22:39:22+00:00
That is a solution applicable for a document or GUI created by yourself, where you can define various styles with associated fonts and use them appropriately.

However, I see the worst offenders on various Web pages (frequently for various URLs) where I do not control the typeface, unless I instruct the browser to ignore the style sheet of the rendered Web page and use my own fonts instead, which can be tedious or create other problems in the rendered page.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-12 22:39:29+00:00
Isn't the fact that bash doesn't have a wonderful ecosystem of reusable modules a much more enormous insurmountable problem than the fact that you have to install python modules? You're really missing the forest for the trees.

Not only does bash not have a module system like python, or a vast ecosystem of modules like python, but also that it's much too weak and brittle a language to implement most of those modules that Python has, and can't even call native code libraries directly.

Even with just its standard built in "batteries included" libraries and no extension modules or native code modules, Python is still much more powerful than bash and easier to code and maintain.

If you're complaining about having to install Python modules, you're usually already doing something that's impossible or incredibly difficult to do in bash anyway.

Even something as simple and essential as fetching files via http or parsing json. Bash has to call out to other programs to do that, but you have to install those programs too, and while Python can certainly call out to curl or wget or jq, it doesn't have to, since it has all that and more built in.

There really is no comparison, because bash loses along so many dimensions at once compared to Python.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-12 22:39:42+00:00
I think an 80mph limit would be reasonable (10 over the limit in the UK).

I wouldn't be in favour of a hard 75mph because current speed limits are set by social consensus on the basis that they aren't strictly enforced. The police are extremely unlikely to stop you for doing 76mph in a 70, so I don't think your car should.