MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smackeyacky | 2025-06-23 22:01:47+00:00
For a brief-ish period, Sun would happily sell you diskless Sun workstations that did everything an XTerminal did plus offered local computing.

Two of the universities in town had labs of them for students, all booted remotely, all the storage on a bigger Sun down in the server room, ugly coaxial ethernet everywhere and those funky blue/silver mouse pads and optical mice.

My boss at the time was pretty dark on Sun, because they sold her a lab full of Sun 3 workstations without telling her the Sparcstations would be released shortly afterwards.
by Syntonicles | 2025-06-23 22:02:06+00:00
It's a lot to ask of two experts to also be excellent communicators for an audience that may struggle to follow along.

I wonder if a potential application of LLMS could be: have two experts have a really interesting but dense conversation with each other, and then translate the conversation into simpler language with interjections for explanations.

It may not be enjoyable for the most general audience, but it would scratch an itch for some of us.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-23 22:02:13+00:00
Assuming the announcements from CATL and BYD pan out and battery prices continue on their current trajectory:

By 2030 EV's will cost less than an ICE powered vehicle up front, travel further on a single charge than an ICE with a full tank, cost less to maintain, take about the same amount of time to "refuel" (if you need to do that at all because you can recharge for free at a solar powered home) ... and won't be built in the USA if Ford doesn't do something like this. It probably won't be in the USA even with Ford's efforts.

If you are an automotive EE and live and work in the USA, you've got very little time left to get your finger out. Even if you do and are insanely clever, you've got 3.5 more years of Trump and the GOP playing to the denial crowd, putting up barriers like this to any attempt to change from the status quo. You're also up against a highly industrialised country with four times the number of EE's the USA, some of which are also insanely clever, all being forced to innovate in a highly competitive market fueled by government subsidies.

Personally, if I were you, I'd be assuming the car manufacturing industry in the USA is fucked, and looking for another industry to transition my EE skills into.
by lunarboy | 2025-06-23 22:02:16+00:00
It was only 2 years ago we were still taking about GPTs making up completely nonsense, and now hallucinations are almost gone from the discussions. I assume it will get even better, but I also think there is an inherent plateau. Just like how machines solved mass manufacturing work, but we still have factory workers and overseers. Also, "manually" hand crafted pieces like fashion and watches continue to be the most expensive luxury goods. So I don't believe good design architects and consulting will ever be fully replaced.
by macNchz | 2025-06-23 22:02:17+00:00
Lack of complete e2ee is a feature for many large organizations—they still want everything encrypted, they just want a master key to be able to audit communications for compliance/investigations/insider threat identification. They also want strict control over who does what with the app, and where all of the associated data lives. Teams is just a totally different product from WhatsApp in that regard, with all sorts of functionality that will never exist in WhatsApp—tons of control over user identity and access management, integration with all sorts of other security tooling, etc.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-06-23 22:03:16+00:00
So when I reach the trailhead and realize that my dongle is back at home, I can still use my headphones to listen to a podcast as I hike.

Or maybe I'm out in public with others and want them to listen to something but my dongle is at home so I now need to play audio over the speakers in a public setting.

It comes down to having choice and not being funnelled into overpriced wireless earbuds. Which Fairphone began selling with the release of the Fairphone 4, their first phone without the jack.
by mozanunal | 2025-06-23 22:03:18+00:00
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by zzzeek | 2025-06-23 22:03:39+00:00
this is a misunderstanding of the full context. The US abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 under Trump's order to withdraw from the agreement (which was, IMO, strictly part of his package to ruin the legacy of Obama, who he despises deeply). This essentially killed the primary reason Iran agreed in the first place, which was relief from sanctions. However the agreement remains in force to this day and is still monitored by the IAEA. So it's not very surprising that Iran resumed their enrichment activities [1] and Trump's actions in 2018 has led to vastly higher tensions between the US/Iran/Israel.

It is well established by the IAEA itself that Iran fully honored the terms of the JCPOA up until Trump intentionally ruined the agreement by pulling the US out of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_...
by dhosek | 2025-06-23 22:04:15+00:00
It’s not quite that bad. My brother was a veterinarian and in his case, it was very much a vocation thing: he knew he wanted to be a veterinarian by the time he was maybe 10 or 11 and took a remarkably direct route there. The vast majority of the work was fairly routine care, and he had a unique gift for connecting with animals (most of his early career he did house call veterinary work and so many clients would talk about how their cat or dog was terrified of strangers but would just climb into his lap and let him do whatever he needed to do to care for the animal, whether it was trimming nails, examining teeth, taking blood or anything else). Euthanasia was something that he felt, but was able to get through for the other aspects of the job.

I have an ex who became a vet (kind of a surprise in that when we were dating she was an artist) and she has a house call practice with a lot of her work being euthanasia. I don’t know how she can manage that emotionally, but I’d like to believe she’s not a psycho even if she was the one who ended the relationship.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-23 22:05:35+00:00
One of my sons needs job. He's applied to every job within reach and gets no replies at all.

This includes a place where another son works and is short staffed. They say they can't get applicants. We see my son apply and get no response. From what we can tell, the current manager is required to post job listings and that's it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-23 22:05:43+00:00
It wasn't Signal's identity management that proved to be a problem: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group...

When it comes to practical cryptography, nobody is doing signing parties anyway. It's all TOFU unless someone forces people's hands, and when you force people to do security you can assume they won't bother checking if the QR code they're scanning is coming from a real app or a livestream of someone else's app, they just want to get the scanning done. The whole key scan thing is probably only of any use to people keeping contact after meeting with journalists.
by whatshisface | 2025-06-23 22:06:16+00:00
The actions on the US-Israel side so far (deeply cutting non-defense discretionary spending, decoupling from international trade, assassinating secular leaders who can be replaced, bombing three locations which can be rebuilt) only make sense as the near-term prelude to a major ground invasion. If the invasion doesn't happen the US will be left with a self-inflicted economic growth wound and no way to explain it, and Israel will be left with an adversary that believes itself to be facing an existential risk, that is able to enrich uranium, and that would not trust any treaty negotiations.
by agentultra | 2025-06-23 22:06:39+00:00
… because programming languages are the right level of precision for specifying a program you want. Natural language isn’t it. Of course you need to review and edit what it generates. Of course it’s often easier to make the change yourself instead of describing how to make the change.

I wonder if the independent studies that show Copilot increasing the rate of errors in software have anything to do with this less bold attitude. Most people selling AI are predicting the obsolescence of human authors.
by melling | 2025-06-23 22:07:23+00:00
We’ve had 40 years and we’re still burning all the coal Carl Sagan warned us about.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=3uhneUSoiZaUKS9M

So, after 40 years I’m a little tired of hearing it takes too long to build nuclear power plants.

On the bright side, we’ve almost reached peak coal:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/coal-use-to...
by diggan | 2025-06-23 22:07:54+00:00
> In the systems with network traffic evaluation probes, no records consistent with unauthorized activity have been observed, such as lateral movements, network traces or file movements for vulnerability exploitation or privilege escalation, among others.

> However, as is common in networks and information systems in any sector, other risks have been identified, such as vulnerabilities, deficiencies or inadequate configurations of security measures, which may expose networks and systems to potential risks, for which a series of measures are proposed.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-23 22:07:57+00:00
Thank you, that's a really good point: we hear about the dire stuff but seldom about the steady improvements.

These numbers are to be taken with a spoon of salt though.

Randomly taking the Republic of Congo as an example, it's currently in an acute crisis as a result of heavy conflicts, and water is trucked by health international organizations as part of the relief effort [0].

So thar 8.6 point improvement on sanitization and clean water access on the EPI scale is a bit head scratcher [1]

[0] https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1160706

[1] https://epi.yale.edu/country/2024/COD
by diggan | 2025-06-23 22:08:06+00:00
Seems the money shot starts at page 131:

> The ultimate cause of the peninsular electrical zero on April 28th was a phenomenon of overvoltages in the form of a "chain reaction" in which high voltages cause generation disconnections, which in turn causes new increases in voltage and thus new disconnections, and so on.

> 1. The system showed insufficient dynamic voltage control capabilities sufficient to maintain stable voltage

> 2. A series of rhythmic oscillations significantly conditioned the system, modifying its configuration and increasing the difficulties for voltage stabilization.

If I understand it correctly (and like software, typical), it was a positive feedback-loop. Since there wasn't enough voltage control, some other station had to be added but got overloaded instead, also turning off, and then on to the next station.

Late addition: It was very helpful for me to read through the "ANNEX X. BRIEF BASICS OF THE ELECTRIC SYSTEM" (page 168) before trying to read the report itself, as it explains a lot of things that the rest of the report (rightly) assumes you already know.
by toast0 | 2025-06-23 22:08:08+00:00
The problem with building everything without dependencies on other peoples' platforms is that it's a lot of work to build your own chip fabrication machines when you just wanted to sell chat bots.

Chat bots on your own hosted platform which has no users isn't something people will want to buy. I mean, some people will want to buy it for click to chat on their websites or something. But if there's a market for chat bots in general spaces, you have to address that market where people are chatting, which is Discord, apparently.
by avmich | 2025-06-23 22:08:20+00:00
> I only want to see the word 'Gemini' when it relates to Alan Parsons records or to Zodiac signs.

Why not the American second manned spaceship? Gemini was a really good step ahead at the time.

Back to the question - Firefox with maybe some extensions, DuckDuckGo for search - that should be enough. If not, there is Gmail and Google Maps to cut. If it still doesn't work, on a fresh computer/OS, preferably with VPN... that could be more interesting. Let us know.
by BoxFour | 2025-06-23 22:08:47+00:00
No, I claimed that interest in them isn’t declining in young men.

You’re not proving interest in them has. You’re engaging in outcomes-based thinking, which is entirely irrelevant to this argument about inputs.

The argument is that men lost focus on wealth because they gained focused on physical appearance instead. Your fact about proportional wealth outcomes proves neither part in that argument.
by mapt | 2025-06-23 22:09:06+00:00
Even one zoom-in and I find something interesting.

What's that faint illuminated tendril extending from M61 (the large spiral galaxy at the bottom center of the image) upwards towards that red giant? It seems too straight and off-center to be an extension of the spiral arm.

EDIT: The supposed "Tidal tail" on M61 was evidently known from deep astrophotography, but only rarely detected & commented upon.
by minimaxir | 2025-06-23 22:09:12+00:00
For Twitch streamers who play OoT randomizer, I strongly recommend Zfg's stream (one of the best OoT players out there), who is coincidentally streaming it now: https://www.twitch.tv/zfg1

An example No Logic run he did at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 (which required shenanigans): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lBi4_g6HQ
by mikem170 | 2025-06-23 22:09:21+00:00
The Japanese deal with this by zoning policies being set at a national level. Localities pretty much can decide what part of town the smelly/industrial businesses go, and the rest scales based on population.

The locality will plan where their high-rise/commercial district is, houses on side-streets are can all be triplexes with an option for a low-impact business as in the article, and secondary streets have dedicated businesses.

As an area's population grows the federal zoning allows that bigger buildings can be built - small apartment buildings instead of houses, etc. The locals can't pull-up the ladder behind them and say "no new houses", locking out young people and renters and transplants.

I assume that the problem in the US is more regulatory capture than culture. Starbucks doesn't want you to be able to sell coffee to your neighbors. And your neighbors don't want more housing to be built, because it might affect their home values. I've seen how home owners adamantly oppose these things.

And for decades we've been left with most new housing being built by developers as cheap as possible - clear cutting some space on the outskirts of town and throwing together cookie cutter houses, car dependent and without much of anywhere nearby to socialize. It's a shame that in a country of 330+ million people there's not more variance.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-06-23 22:09:41+00:00
What else are you plugging your headphones into? Again, the pitch here is leaving the dongle basically permanently attached to the headphones, effectively turning them into a set of usb-c wired headphones. I was hesitant about abandoning the headphone jack, too, until I realized that the higher-end phones I'd effectively locked myself out of charge in 10% of the time.
by gridspy | 2025-06-23 22:09:46+00:00
Your two examples don't map to the concern about data privacy.

Speed cameras only operate on public roads. The camera in the store is operated by the store owner. In both cases one of the parties involved in the transaction (driving, purchasing) is involved in enforcement. It is clear in both cases that these measures protect everyone and they have clear limits also.

Better examples would be police searching your home all the time, whenever they want (This maps to device encryption).

Or store owners surveilling competing stores / forcing people to wear cameras 24/7 "to improve the customer experience" (This maps to what Facebook / Google try to do, or what internet wire tapping does).
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 22:09:58+00:00
According to these absolute la-la-land real politickers, states are supposed to just not build nuclear weapons — tools that are empirically required to have a seat at the international table since 1945 — because you ask politely.

Obviously you have to fucking bribe them! Bribing is infinitely better than bombing, where each marginal bombing increases the imperative for every other state to develop their own nukes by reaffirming they are permanently at the mercy of nuclear states!
by andyferris | 2025-06-23 22:10:05+00:00
I think there's an idea akin to Europe's "right to be forgotten" here.

We can all observe the world in the moment. Police can obtain warrants to wiretap (or the digitial equivalent) suspects in real-time. That's fine!

The objection is that we are ending up with laws and rulings that require a recording of history of everyone by everyone - just so the police can have the convenience of trawling through data everyone reasonably felt was private and shouldn't exist except transiently? Not to mention that perhaps the state should pay for all this commercially unnecessary storage? Our digital laws are so out-of-touch with the police powers voters actually consented to - that mail (physical post) and phone calls shall not be in intercepted except under probable cause (of a particular suspect performing a specific crime) and a judge's consent. Just carry that concept forward.

On a technical level, I feel a "perfect forward secrecy" technique should be sufficient for implementers. A warrant should have a causal (and pinpoint) effect on what is collected by providers. Of course we can also subpoena information that everyone reasonably expected was recorded (i.e. not transient and private). This matches the "physical reality" of yesteryear - the police can't execute a warrant for an unrecoreded person-to-person conversation that happened two weeks ago; you need to kindly ask one of the conversents (who have their own rights to privacy / silence, are forgetful, and can always "plead the 5th").
by groby_b | 2025-06-23 22:10:07+00:00
I think you're overindexing on tools.

A good dev can produce excellent results rapidly in an entirely "naked" environment. Sure, good tools might help, but you're looking at improvements in the margins - and a lot of this is about your personal joy, not productivity.

If the rate at which you generate value is noticeably gated by which IDE you use... well, you've got a long and exciting journey ahead of you. It's going to be fun, and I don't mean that facetiously.

"knowing your tools" was never called "being a programmer". Best devs I've ever worked with all did absolutely amazing work with more/grep/vi and a lot of thinking. And the thinking is where the value was created. That's still true, even if you throw an LLM into the mix.
by cranky908canuck | 2025-06-23 22:10:16+00:00
So the response from the host of the column is "don't do that, that's abusing the benefit".

I get that.

I do think there are a lot of other issues though... in some environments, for some people, sick days are another form of PTO. So "'Joe is sick today' ... 'ok, yeah he got allocated a day, we expected that'".

On the other hand, if you don't take them, and retire/get laid off/ etc ... "thank you for your service".

Some organizations do treat unused sick time as a retirement allowance (eg., 0.60 credit). That's an incentive to bank them but maybe not if you run the numbers...?

This seems like a 'hard problem'... I'm interested in stirring up a discussion!
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-06-23 22:11:15+00:00
Perhaps it's worth it adding this as a note at the top of the post, maybe mentioning alternatives, such as an Actually Portable™ build of `pigz`[1] or just a windows build of zstd[2].

[1] https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/tiny/pigz

[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/latest/
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-23 22:11:32+00:00
But the number of young people going to vocational schools and community colleges, he added, is dropping, not growing.

Four of my sons went thru high school VoTech here. Schools don't make it easy. Some classes are filled up years in advance and the student graduates before there's an opening.

The mandatory 4-year college track gets every priority. VoTech has to be squeezed into the what electives are left over. This isn't just here and now. This is all over and isn't much changed from my high school days.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-23 22:12:01+00:00
What does it matter if it's more efficient or not? I want to drink clean water today, I get a gallon delivered to my home.

Also, when comparing prices for necessities, the only thing that matters to an individual is the actual amount, not any percentage comparison. You've fallen into a mental trap that I've seen a lot of people fall into, by comparing prices by percentages. If most people in a developing country can easily afford clean water delivered to their homes, then it doesn't matter if it's percentage wise more expensive. Same thing if you buy some ramen noodles. It doesn't matter in the slightest if they cost 50c or $1.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-23 22:12:07+00:00
I cook everyday and there is absolutely no way that a normal family yet a single person would be using 20l of water per day to cook, unless they were deliberately aiming to use as much water as possible. Including washing dishes etc.

The example stated for farming is 2000 liters per person per day for food. I'd like you to pause for a moment and think about that statement. A person can't eat a whole head of cabbage in a day, and you're saying that this head of cabbage would need more than two tons of water per day before it's harvested.

Likewise with the washing machine, you're talking about washing a full load per person every day. Who do you know that soils so much his clothes that he needs to wash a full load only for him every day?

Water to grow the grass for beef cattle is rain, as I assume at least a small minority of people reading here will know.

Your original comment is greatly upvoted and the people here actually believe that two tons of water per day per person is needed to grow their food. Per day. Per Person. I can't fathom what is going on in this forum.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-23 22:12:13+00:00
And what water do you think a poor person will prefer to drink:

a) Some of the highest quality drinking water in the world, taken from a regional or national spring and delivered to their home for a very accessible price?

or

b) Slightly muddy well water that they have to go and fetch in a village well? Assuming they live in a village and assuming that there's ground water available.

Which water would you prefer to drink?

The comment I was replying to was talking about plumbing, so my response regarded settlements larger than villages. Any village where the ground water is good to drink have already dug a well, so no use in telling them to dig a well.