MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scythe | 2025-06-25 14:05:01+00:00
The title is clickbait and misleading. Even though it is the original from the university press release, it should be changed for HN.

From the study:

>We identified the illicit use of leaded bronze in nonheating device components in contact with e-liquid as the source of Pb.

The abstract continues to say that lead levels were particularly elevated in the vape products from one manufacturer, which is not reported for the other two manufacturers whose products were tested. You can find it here:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00641
by blendergeek | 2025-06-25 14:05:16+00:00
Cab drivers dramatically boosted profits while decreasing driver pay? This goes way beyond increasing prices. Uber both increased prices and decreased driver pay at the same time. I used to driver Uber to make extra cash. They usually took about 16-17% and I made $25-30/hour (before taxes and expenses). Now they take more than 25% and I make $20/hour before expenses so I only drive when I want to have a bunch of conversations with random people
by ksec | 2025-06-25 14:05:24+00:00
I hope I am very wrong but this isn't given. In the past reference encoder and decoder do not concern about speed and resources, but last 10 years have shown most reference encoder and decoder has already put considerable effort into speed optimisation. And it seems people are already looking to hardware JPEG XL implementation. ( I hope and guess this is for Lossless only )
by Timwi | 2025-06-25 14:05:50+00:00
I'm so glad to hear that from someone unprompted. I tried WPF and it was a million times harder to use than WinForms, and I couldn't even be bothered to try out MAUI (although I accept it as an apology for WPF lol). I'm still using a WinForms application every day (Git Extensions) and have been able to contribute to it not least because it's the good old familiar WinForms.

This is not to say that WinForms isn't without its problems. I often wonder what it could be like if all the effort of making WPF and MAUI had gone into maintaining, modernizing and improving it.
by Beestie | 2025-06-25 14:06:08+00:00
I'm actively seeking a new contract position so dusted off my accounts in both of these engines about a month ago. I also use a few other sites like Indeed, Flex Jobs, remote.io, etc.

Couple things I have noticed. Indeed does the best job of recommending jobs based on the jobs I click on. Sort of like Amazon's "since you like that, you might also like this". Indeed is very good at it. Out of the six or so services I am now active in, Monster is dreadful at it. Their email recommendations and related job postings are so far off the mark, I gave up on them. Another interesting thing I've noticed is how some of the smaller boards like remote.io are using the same listings as the bigger boards - so much the same that I wonder if the bigger board also owns it.

Its been over a month so don't recall exactly which "niche" board was essentially a clone of the more mainstream board but when I'm paying for full access, I don't want to see the exact same listings. It was way beyond coincidence and no relationship was disclosed.

So I think Monster just got fat and happy and turned into the Blockbuster of job boards. Not sure about Careerbuilder.

One thing on my agenda for this afternoon is to completely remove/delete/truncate/smote my accounts with Monster and Careerbuilder.
by puzzlingcaptcha | 2025-06-25 14:06:24+00:00
You can buy a lab centrifuge (such as Optima MAX from Coulter) that does 150 000 RPM, (or as a more useful measure, about a million g). These are often used for virus purification.

But isotope separation is usually done on UF6, which is a gas. These centrifuges work a bit differently, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge
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by jodoking | 2025-06-25 14:06:33+00:00
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by behnamoh | 2025-06-25 14:07:02+00:00
Actually, that's the reason a lot of startups and solo developers prefer non-Google solutions, even though the quality of Gemini 2.5 Pro is insanely high. The Google Cloud Dashboard is a mess, and they haven't fixed it in years. They have Vertex that is supposed to host some of their models, but I don't understand what's the difference between that and their own cloud. And then you have two different APIs depending on the level of your project: This is literally the opposite of what we would expect from an AI provider where you start small and regardless of the scale of your project, you do not face obstacles. So essentially, Google has built an API solution that does not scale because as soon as your project gets bigger, you have to switch from the Google AI Studio API to the Vertex API. And I find it ridiculous because their OpenAI compatible API does not work all the time. And a lot of tools that rely on that actually don't work.

Google's AI offerings that should be simplified/consolidated:

- Jules vs Gemini CLI?

- Vertex API (requires a Google Cloud Account) vs Google AI Studio API

Also, since Vertex depends on Google Cloud, projects get more complicated because you have to modify these in your app [1]:

``` # Replace the `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT` and `GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION` values # with appropriate values for your project. export GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT=GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT export GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION=global export GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=True ```

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/start/...
by Aston89 | 2025-06-25 14:07:33+00:00
You're absolutely right to bring up Kolmogorov complexity, it's the theoretical ceiling of what any compression algorithm could achieve. But FOE doesn’t claim to compute it.

Instead, it explicitly works within a restricted symbolic grammar, mapping bit sequences to reversible mathematical expressions using pre-defined opcode structures.

In other words: FOE doesn’t chase uncomputable minima. It trades universality for practical symbolic compression using interpretable, stack-based formulae.

It's not magic. It's not theoretical. It’s a prototype — bounded, testable, and intentionally inefficient — to explore what happens when compression is done with math instead of byte patterns.

So no, this isn’t “Kolmogorov with training wheels.” It’s Kolmogorov with a calculator and a time budget.
by snarfy | 2025-06-25 14:07:49+00:00
I'm still salty about the lack of DisplayPort adoption by manufacturers. I have a new video card with DP 2.1 and new monitor (2025) with only DP 1.4. I'm forced to use hdmi if I want full bandwidth without dsc.

A 2025 monitor with DP 1.4 from 2016. Shame.
by haswell | 2025-06-25 14:08:50+00:00
In practice, I have never encountered a person who benefits from such negative self beliefs in the long term, or anyone who would claim they were beneficial. My perspective on this is driven by many years of real world experience with addiction and related communities, and more personal exploration of the negative bias than I can quantify.

There’s a good reason addiction recovery is now often focused on the underlying issues of shame and other negative self beliefs. They tend to be at the root of the issue, despite being the default reaction people feel towards themselves due to social conditioning.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-25 14:08:58+00:00
The book "Halftime" by Bob Buford helped me 'orgnanize' my thoughts/wishes/dreams/aspirations for the second half. I had a fair idea of what/why/where/when/how I wanted things to be in the 'second half', and it helped me ask the right questions in a useful order.

I believe Peterson's "Future Authoring" does something similar, but I haven't tried it yet (perhaps this summer I can make the time to try it out).

If you are journaling, go back and skim through your journals (older first --> recent last) and see the changes (and trajectory/future/outlook).

(Depending on the language you read it) Hector Malot writes on En Famille: don't read newspapers, they are a waste of time. I try to stay away from the news, and listen to (few) podcasts much-much later to see if what they were saying "1 day after the XYZ event" actually played out or not". That gives a better measure/perspective of how much trust to put in those people/discussions.
by sleepyguy | 2025-06-25 14:09:15+00:00
I've noticed that a trip I've taken for years has increased significantly in price over the last 6 to 8 months. I used to pay around $17 to $20, but now the same trip costs approximately $25 or more. I spoke with the driver, and he mentioned that he still receives the same amount—$11.00—so it seems the extra cost is going to the platform, not the driver.

It's now more than I use to pay to take a cab and all the cabs are gone.....
by mdaniel | 2025-06-25 14:09:26+00:00
> The gist of it is that we intercept the Rust linking phase and then drive `rustc` manually. There's some diffing logic that compares assembly between compiles and then a linking phase where we patch symbols against the running process

makes it sound like it's actually not super rust specific, just a ton of squinting at assembly dumps. I do wonder if there are some "reproducible builds" traps hiding in this, but maybe it just needs to be selective about what it patches, and that turns out to be the really hard problem

I didn't follow the tick() problem cited elsewhere, but my mental model is that, sure, one should not patch currently executing code without expecting "well that didn't do what I wanted" type shenanigans
by brookst | 2025-06-25 14:09:28+00:00
Plenty of phones with headphone jacks had terrible DACs. If you care about audio quality, external is the way to go. It’s also more sustainable as you can spend $100 once for fantastic quality and keep it forever rather than insisting that each phone have an audiophile quality DAC that will eventually be disposed of.

The one upside is convenience of not having a separate dongle, which is pretty well offset by the significant increase in phone size needed to accommodate the jack.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-25 14:10:32+00:00
Any further word on the recently announced GPMI out of China?

* "GPMI set to deliver up to 192Gbps and 480W through a single USB cable": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607155

* "China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative – GPMI up to 192 Gbps, 480W": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43602154

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPMI
by maxglute | 2025-06-25 14:10:35+00:00
I think 1) is unlikely, b2 bays can't fit much more, gbu57 is mostly metal and no booster for penetration 2) is what no one knows, but we (as in the public) also don't know layout/construction, i.e. actual depth, bunker design (can emb sloped concrete/steel layer to deflect penetrators laterally so follow up drop don't go straight down).
by keiferski | 2025-06-25 14:10:36+00:00
Malls are looked back on nostalgically as a 90s/2000s thing by a big percentage of the population. The whole mallwave genre is one example:

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

There are still many huge malls, but generally speaking the vast majority of them have closed, are empty, or are being rebranded into something else.
by bediger4000 | 2025-06-25 14:10:50+00:00
That isn't necessarily the wearable RFKJ means. The article also goes on to point out that nobody has measured health benefits from wearables, and that the surgeon general nominatee has a company that makes wearables, a giant conflict of interest. None of this is surprising, in that RFKJ testified under oath in his confirmation hearings that he would keep the vaccine advisory committee in place, but then fired them summarily. He's a known liar.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-25 14:11:08+00:00
Yes! No! (as some others commented - not too hard).

You can build an amazing body (not hitting on you dude!) with Yoga. Which starts easy, then can turn hard, and 4-5 years later you got a body of iron, flexibility to reach the highest shelves, and stamina to run for hours.

Anyway, depending what you like/enjoy doing, build some muscle, build some stamina, drink less (alcohol). Be healthy(-ier)
by quantadev | 2025-06-25 14:12:54+00:00
It certainly seems like someone would've invented a Kid Friendly phone by now that's completely safe, and doesn't allow access to the "real" internet at all, but only an ability to send texts without images, make voice calls, etc. Now that we have AI it would be easier, an you could potentially give "Google" access that's censored into a "child friendly" output by the AI. You could have a texting app where friends can talk, but only to kids in their own school for example, or at least limited by geographical area, to foster friendships IRL, rather than some Chinese Bot being able to trick your kid into eating Tide Pods or whatever their latest Attack on America happens to be.

But TBH making kids continually solve math problems seems a bit mean to me. Like making a kid do pushups for food if they're overweight. Too militaristic and authoritarian for my liking, but I can respect your creativity for creating that. It's good to try new ideas.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-25 14:13:01+00:00
You could just start the MCP server in container I guess, although I suppose that's doing it the manual way.

That might prevent the model from wandering from the beaten paths, but container escapes are a thing, so if it's not lost but instead malicious then that might not do it. Luckily I don't think we're quite there yet.

So I think that's a "no".

QubesOS might work well for this. It's all about making it easy to work with a small pile of VMs under the assumption that at least one is probably compromised and keeping that one compartmentalized. Although I don't know how far that'll get you if you're letting the untrusted thing call the shots.

At the end of the day you're always going to be able to build better handcuffs by starting with nothing and gradually adding API calls that it needs. Starting with CLI access and then adding restrictions is never going to be as secure, even though it's way more convenient.

That said, I think you could strike a pretty reasonable balance by just not giving it access to anything but one or two explicitly chosen directories.
by LocalH | 2025-06-25 14:13:14+00:00
I agree that language is fluid. However, when it comes to names, I think people should have enough respect to pronounce things how the creator (or owner, depending on the situation) of the name says it should be pronounced. Too often people will mispronounce someone's name as a sign of intentional disrespect (see Kamala Harris for a fairly recent prominent example) and I cannot get behind that. You see a similar disrespect in the hard-soft discourse around the pronunciation of GIF. A lot of people use the hard g and mock the creator for thinking that soft g should ever have been right.

Naming is probably one of the few language areas that I think should be prescriptive, even while language at large is descriptive.
by simoncion | 2025-06-25 14:14:26+00:00
Last I checked, DisplayPort has an auxiliary communications channel that's at least as capable as HDMI's.

As you mention, the HDMI Consortium prohibits TV manufacturers from using DisplayPort. Many of the things that CEC and friends does aren't really needed in PC land. And if the Consortium is going to prohibit TV land from using DisplayPort, why go to the trouble to implement and standardize the parts of CEC & etc. that are only really useful for TVs, home entertainment centers, and the like?
by danillonunes | 2025-06-25 14:14:45+00:00
I agree with the point you're trying to make, but your examples are terrible. Music industry doesn't have too much to do to help deaf people. It's not like they're deliberately making deaf-inaccessible music instead of relying on the old good deaf-accessible music formats.

(Also, the parent comment's example is also not so good because as someone else pointed just because the top 25% websites are serving webp it does mean they're not serving alternative formats for those who does not support it, as this is quite trivial to setup)
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-25 14:14:46+00:00
The only way I would consider paying for news[^1] is if they removed all the negative first and second order effects of advertisements and clickbait for paying subscribers.

In other words:

- Neutral front page with informative titles and headings that are designed to inform, not make me click. Articles written from the ground up with the inverted pyramid[^2] in mind.

- Remove most "psuedo-events"[^3] based "reporting", and if not analyse them critically.

- Pretend that the 24h news cycle doesn't exist. Update at most once a day.

- Do proper investigative journalism.

- Be conscious of the 5 filters outlined by Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent and actively resist them.

In short, the news should live up to the narrative of being the fourth estate it claims legitimacy from, instead of being an entertainment product serving the lowest common denominator in terms of audience.

(This will of course never happen.)

[^1]: With the possible exception of being forced to pay for my nation's public broadcaster through taxes.

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_event
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-25 14:15:07+00:00
Sure, I absolutely think there is a ADHD link and I think there is a likely (which is not the same as definitely) common cause of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), understand that this is not the medical establishment view but I think my models are more accurate and more predictive.

If you scroll through my previous message history I cover this topic quite a bit, you can also email me. In general terms, I think hEDS is far more common than doctors do, and is likely caused by TNXB SNPs. TNXB SPNs are overlooked because these are too common to cause the 'rare' condition - but if you drop the prior assumption of rarity then a very different picture is painted. It appears to me that the only difference between hEDS and far more common Generalized Joint Hypermobility (GJH) is severity and the stochastic diagnosis that this difference causes. The prior assumption of rarity has informed the diagnostic test so the diagnostic tests reproduce this assumption and in my view have an extremely high false negative rate. If using other proxy stats like the rate of hypermobility in Long Covid from the work of Dr Jessica Eccles it's pretty clear that that prior assumption of rarity is wildly inaccurate. I was able to figure this out because I have experience as an applied researcher and machine learning, having spent half a lifetime reading papers I've developed a bit of a nose for the sorts of mistakes that academic researchers tend to make.
by lherron | 2025-06-25 14:15:13+00:00
Even if you don't care about open source, you should care about all the obfuscation happening in the prompts/models being used by Cursor/Claude Code/etc. With everything hidden, you could be paying 200/mo and get served Haiku instead of Sonnet/Opus. Or you could be getting 1k tokens of your code inserted as context instead of 100k to save on inference costs.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-25 14:15:14+00:00
Don't worry, the other Office homepage says that it's actually been renamed to just Microsoft 365, not Microsoft 365 Copilot App:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-offi...

I got there by going to office.com and clicking Products > Microsoft Office. Lol. Rofl, even. This has made my day. And we all thought calling their third generation console Xbox One was the worst possible branding decision.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-06-25 14:15:28+00:00
> US government should be held personally liable for any violation of the constitution

If this isn't the case, then why bother even having a constitution if the government officials can violate at any time without consequences.

> should every US government person involved in that be prosecuted for criminal embezzlement

This is odd question as it presumes that Biden broke the law in this example, but if that was in fact the case, then yes those involved in breaking the law should be held accountable to extent proportionate to their involvement. Again, what's the point in having laws if they can so easily be ignored.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-25 14:15:56+00:00
This would appeal the privacy/security crowd, but it is not really Fairphone's market. There are better options if that's what you are looking for, such as the Librem phones.

They probably don't want to position themselves against security-focused phones as they would likely be compared unfavorably with them. That is unless they also do whatever it takes to enter that market, for example by supporting a security-focused OS like GrapheneOS.

They could have kept the headphone jack though, but I guess they wanted to sell their earbuds (with replaceable batteries! which is at least a good point).
by didgetmaster | 2025-06-25 14:15:57+00:00
Another big issue is how time is often used to determine the order of events. Did event1 occur before or after event2?

Things like timestamps are used to track things like file creation, transaction processing, and other digital events.

As computers and networks have become increasingly fast, the accuracy of the timestamps becomes more and more critical.

While the average human doesn't care if a file was created at a time calculated down to the nanosecond; it is often important to know if it was created before or after the last backup snapshot.
by whitehexagon | 2025-06-25 14:16:05+00:00
I have two monitors, but only one of them is 4k and a couple cm bigger, and I dont like to buy stuff unless I really need. It is good enough for me. But this case also comes up on the edge of my laptop when I have the 4k plugged in at the same time. In the days of eclipse I'd keep the code editor top half on monitor, and the console output on the laptop, worked quite nice.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-06-25 14:16:08+00:00
And HN users should run the "ClearURLs" extension[1] (or similar) to automatically strip these and other tracking links from their browser.

Or at least read the URL they've entered when posting and manually prune unnecessary parameters.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
by remuskaos | 2025-06-25 14:16:24+00:00
While I don't know much about centeifuges, I'm still in awe that this Hikoki handheld blower does 90k rpm: https://www.hikoki-powertools.com/products/powertools/li-ion...

That's not a typo, I actually own this device and couldn't believe at first this thing spins with ninety thousand rpm. A lot has happened since my last 5400rpm hdd bit the dust.