MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lupusreal | 2025-06-24 23:11:22+00:00
Yup. They asked me what guns I had in the vehicle. Totally fair. I said none and expected they might want to search the vehicle, which would have been totally fair as well. But they weren't interested in that anymore, they started asking what kind of guns I and my passenger had at home. None, for me again, but my passenger admitted to having some at home 500 miles away. He later said he felt compelled to be honest because he didn't know what databases they might be hooked into. The border guard then began grilling him about the kinds of guns he had, what their purpose was, why he would own them, etc etc. Asshole invasive questions that served no purpose. I think the border guard just saw an opportunity to needle an American for being American. At least they let us through after that. They never searched the car, clearly they didn't have any legitimate concern about anything.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-24 23:11:25+00:00
Yeah, that's not very honest position. You have to decide if you want to squeeze them out or make things right.

If they hid things and the agreement wasn't just trashed, that could have been a scandal that gets resolved on the path to peace. It could happen for many reasons, maybe they don't trust the West to uphold their part and wanted an insurance policy, maybe it was division within. It doesn't matter that much, it's not like they made the bomb already and were about to hit once everyone lowers their guard.

Later what we had was Iran that was on the table, trying to play nice and that was destroyed probably because of the ego of a guy who couldn't handle to stick with the agreement signed by someone he hates.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-24 23:11:39+00:00
I have a researcher card, it's not an arduous process. The staff are very kind. When you show up to the National Archives in Washington, DC., prepare to encounter a general group of 2 dozen pros carrying scanners, laptops, etc. It's quite the experience.

I don't see this is that big of a deal. It's open, you can access it, but they are controlling more. Given the propensity for the theft and destruction of archives documents in the past, I'm ok with more security.
by ahaucnx | 2025-06-24 23:12:34+00:00
Achim, founder of AirGradient here.

Nice to wake up and see a hacker news post benefiting from our open source air monitor designs, especially with the original design that we started with so many years ago! Makes me realize how much AirGradient developed since these early days.

Did you consider linking the fan with the CO2 data and making this a demand controlled system? Like you control the speed (or just switch on / off the fan) based on CO2 levels?

I think this could have a few advantages in terms of energy savings, noise level etc.
by mulmen | 2025-06-24 23:13:02+00:00
There’s no state change in the enrichment process. It’s literally just mechanically filtering isotopes.

The point is it is possible to destroy a stockpile without destroying the contents of the stockpile.

If you have to turn the site into an open pit mine then I am comfortable calling that a destroyed stockpile.

This kind of strike will only ever delay the process. There’s no decisively preventing anyone from enriching uranium because the laws of physics are universal.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-24 23:13:13+00:00
That's reasonable. This would require broader and deeper thought and discussion apart from the strict legal debate. As in, what is the public interest here? What kinds of rules would bring social good? Etc. What should the law facilitate and what should it limit to achieve that? The problem is, that we really don't know how things will play out, we have no long-term experience with these things yet. So it's all very speculative.
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-24 23:13:30+00:00
I think it's a very different problem than what welfare usually solves for us. Paying a doctor to treat patients is different from paying someone to build an MRI machine. We don't pay individual engineers there.

So I don't think solving such complex problems within a welfare system is a solved problem at all.

In Sweden we pride ourselves in health care for everyone. But we are quite bad at buying software systems for our welfare institutions.
by coolcoder613 | 2025-06-24 23:13:40+00:00
While not a random server in the internet, here is the start of the ssh banner on my router (before the legal "fuck off")

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by anonnon | 2025-06-24 23:14:09+00:00
The US and Russia up until recently were committed to nuclear disarmament. Reagan even pledged to work towards "a world free of nuclear weapons," a goal that many on both sides of the political spectrum shared. Bizarrely, now I see plenty of leftists (tankies specifically) not just resigned to a world beset by nuclear proliferation, but even enthusiastic about it.
by fuzztester | 2025-06-24 23:14:13+00:00
here is an image of one such stone pair, not exactly what we had at home, but close:

https://www.natureloc.com/products/ammikallu-grinding-stone

also called aattukallu in tamil and iman dasta (iirc) in hindi or urdu, but searching for the latter only gave results for mortars and pestles, which are not the same thing as the one above, the ammikallu.
by 0x457 | 2025-06-24 23:14:49+00:00
If you have two monitors with very different DPI, for example, I almost poke my eyes out when I tried 5k and 1440p together, you only have two choices: render for 5k and scale down to 1440p or render at 1440p and upscale to 5k. Well, you can also pick a middle ground that makes both monitors look blurry. Either way, at least one monitor will be _very_ blurry.
by bamboozled | 2025-06-24 23:15:09+00:00
I'm interested how differences with robots work overtime, there are a lot of machines in this world that have been patched or "jimmied up" to continue working, let's say a mining robot, it would probably get quite heavily contaminated with dust, wear would occur in different places, rock falls might bend parts.

So even though another robot could probably do the "jimmy up". it seems like overtime, the robots will "drift" into all being a bit different.

Even commercial airlines seem to go through fairly unique repairs from things like collisions with objects, tail strikes etc.

Maybe it's just easier to recycle robots?
by DangitBobby | 2025-06-24 23:15:11+00:00
Look at how far we've come. We started with hiring processes where almost universally to submit an application, you at least spoke to a human who would acknowledge you, know you exist, and have advanced knowledge on whether the position was even open. Very little wasting of applicants time.

Then, we transitioned into highly automated form submissions online, where it's so easy for the potential employer to collect applications that they don't bother to stop receiving them when they have filled the position, and they even keep fake job openings to goose the numbers. IMO, this development was a completely one-sided benefit to employers. They seemed to relish in wasting the applicants time, somehow.

Now, legitimate job postings are being inundated with slop due to how shit the online application process is and how much of the applicant's time it's designed to waste. Sounds like a form of justice, almost.

Maybe now we can go back to confirming a human exists on both ends.
by rybosworld | 2025-06-24 23:15:47+00:00
I did the math in previous comment that you already replied too..

"The GPU's used for AI have significantly higher utilization rates than gaming GPU's... Here's some napkin math:

H100: 61% utilization / 700W ~ 3.7MW/year

RTX 3080: 10% utilization / 320W ~ 0.27MW/year"

H100 uses at least 10x as much power as a 3080 over it's life time. And most gamers aren't playing on 3080's.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-24 23:15:53+00:00
Yeah, It's one part of the equation. But if the money is being funneled by administration and the actual teachers can't afford proper resources for kids, who wins here.

>why is it so hard to get good teachers into the American school system...

I'm sure we both know the answer, but I'll give a historical account as well. Even pre 70's, teachers were dominated by women. Since this was a single income household system at the time, most jobs offered to women would pay low wages because the roles weren't expected to support a family.

At least back then, there was still respect in the profession. But that was also stripped away in the 80's with the infamous "A nation at risk". Little did we know that the administration was the risk at the time.
by danans | 2025-06-24 23:15:58+00:00
> Not to make it sound like a competition, but I can do it in 5 not living in a city. Why does it take so long in a place that should be optimized for keeping everything close by?

I can walk to 3 different ones in 5 minutes - I live in an actual city - but I was trying not to make it about showing off my housing privilege. Note I said "a coffeeshop", not "the nearest coffeeshop".

> I can be to two different Walmarts given 20 minutes. That is also an unusually long time for a heavily populated area. Are you actually living in a rural area with a train and I misunderstood?

Big dense city, "urban residential", not a suburb. 10 feet between my house and my neighbor's. So Walmart is not "nearby" because those tend to be in lower-middle income suburbs. However, 2 Targets & a Costco are a 10-15 minute drive away.

> But, to be fair, when I lived in a big city downtown it also took me 20 minutes to get to the station, so perhaps your situation of having a train sitting right outside your door waiting on you is a bit unusual?

> That said, perhaps you have included, say, 20 minutes to get to the station, and a few minutes waiting on the train.

5 minutes walk to the station. 20 minutes on the train. 10 minute walk to the office. If I time it right, no waiting for the train.

> > you have to want to manage that kind of business.

> You'd have to report your income to the government. What else is there?

I get that you don't do any actual physical labor, but don't you have to negotiate deals with labor suppliers (or laborers), seed/fertilizer suppliers, check on the quality of work and the condition of the land, facilities, and equipment?

If you hire people to do that all for you, then what's the ROI? It's hard to imagine that small-hold farming is as easy (and has similar returns) as buying an indexed fund, otherwise everyone would be dumping their capital into it.

But hey, maybe after reading this comment thread, everyone will!
by bjourne | 2025-06-24 23:16:58+00:00
> For the longest time, I have been frustrated with Python because I couldn’t use it for one-off scripts.

Bruh, one-off scripts is the whole point of Python. The cheat code is to add "break-system-packages = true" to ~/.config/pip/pip.conf. Just blow up ~/.local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ if you run into a package conflict (exceedingly rare) and reinstall. All these venv, uv, metadata peps, and whatnot are pointless complications you just don't need.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-24 23:18:47+00:00
> Every library I've been in with rare books requires supervision by the archivist if you want to browse them. Sometimes only the archivist can handle the book.

Sure. The LOC librarians never seemed to be out of sight from 8yo me. And they were always happy to get what I asked for. It was a reasonable, functional arrangement.
by nagisa | 2025-06-24 23:19:10+00:00
It'd likely be a side-grade, unless you care specifically for the exact features that were introduced with 30/40/50 series (such as increasingly elaborate upscaling, other AI-driven features.)

Although we don't know how 5050 will perform, 50 series have roughly ~same perf in render as models from 40 series at the same tier. 40 series in turn are only a mild bump over 30 at the same tier. And 30-series was a reasonable improvement over 20, but mostly in perf/$ measure and not raw perf. Extrapolating, 5050 is likely not going to give much of a boost if any, and spending money on a 8GB card in 2025 is just throwing money away at this point as software is now increasingly expecting to be able to work with >8GB of VRAM.
by dlcarrier | 2025-06-24 23:19:24+00:00
As someone from an area that gets wildfires, I support this. It's not good for the forest to put out every wildfire, we have been doing so, for so long that it will take a while to transition to proper forest management. While selective logging doesn't help the plants that rely on small fires, it at least prevents larger fires and reduces disease propagation, with an overall positive effect.

Just because something feels like the right thing to do, from an anthropocentric perspective, it doesn't mean it's actually beneficial to real-life nature and wildlife.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-24 23:19:26+00:00
I sort of wanted Fresco (previously Berlin, inspired by InterViews) to succeed, because in their model the UI toolkits really were server-side and they could be changed out while the application was running. Because they were targeting an abstract device (could be a 1200 dpi printer and a 72 dpi display at the same time) they got the property you mentioned, for free.
by eru | 2025-06-24 23:19:52+00:00
Indeed. And it's fairly trivial to see that computability isn't the right lens to view intelligence through:

The classic Turing test takes place over a finite amount of time. Normally less than an hour, but we can arbitrarily give the interlocutor, say, up to a week. If you don't like the Turing test, then just about any other test interaction we can make the system undergo will conclude below some fixed finite time. After all, humans are generally intelligent, even if they only get a handful of decades to prove it.

During that finite time interaction, only a finite amount of interaction will be exchanged.

Now in principle a system could have a big old lookup table with all prefixes of all possible interactions as keys, and values are probability distributions for what to send back next (and how long to wait before sending the reply). That table would be finite. And thus following it would be computable.

Of course, the table would be more than astronomical in size, and utterly impossible to manifest in our physical universe. But computability is too blunt an instrument to formalise this with.

In the real universe, you would need to _compress_ that table somehow, eg in a human brain or perhaps in an LLM or so. And then you need to be able to efficiently uncompress the parts of the table you need to produce the replies. Whether that's possible and how are all questions of complexity theory, not computability.

See Scott Aaronson's excellent 'Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity': https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
by kristianp | 2025-06-24 23:20:03+00:00
If you want to manually manage envs and you're using conda, you can activate the env in a shell wrapper for your python script, like so (this is with conda)

#!/usr/bin/env bash eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)" conda activate myenv python myscript

Admittedly this isn't self contained like the PEP 723 solution.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-24 23:20:28+00:00
They constantly mentioned that their phone camera stabilization was pretty good, and that they really wanted to like this from the start (otherwise they could have just taken a normal taxi without waiting around in an outer suburb for a few hours to finally get one). I don't know what to tell you, you seem to believe that self driving cars are running around the core of these cities without safety drivers, while all I've seen so far, even from the most enthusiastic Chinese v-bloggers, are cars running in the deep suburbs and aren't really very deployed yet like Waymo is in downtown SF.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-24 23:20:51+00:00
> In 2023, when tourism rates had yet to fully recover from Covid, over 66 million people visited the US from abroad. I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year.

Given the repeated reports of international carriers cutting US routes due to lack of demand this year, I wonder why you would assume that the numbers this year are the same as two years ago?

> It's possible to oppose the current US administration and still retain your rationality.

Waving off new abuses isn't rationality (it's also not opposing the current administration, but the opposite, carrying water for them.)
by anonnon | 2025-06-24 23:20:57+00:00
> North Korea

is a client state of China, and it also possess a massive array of conventional artillery in range of Seoul. And since the Korean War, which we now know conclusively that NK started, almost every overt act of aggression between the two Koreas has been perpetrated by the North against the South, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858
by BeetleB | 2025-06-24 23:20:59+00:00
You're thinking like a SW engineer. Instead, think like someone who just happens to know a bit of programming. MCP is much, much easier than tool calling, I think.

As an example, I wrote a function in Python that, given a query string, executes a command line tool and returns the output. To make it an MCP server, I simply added type annotations to the function definition, and wrote a nice docstring, and added a decorator.

That's it. And now it works with all providers and all tools that support MCP. No REST APIs, etc needed. Not tied to a particular agentic tool.

Every time I've written a tool, I've ended up with "Wow, was it really that simple?"

As for security: If you write your own tool, the security implications are the same.
by ggm | 2025-06-24 23:22:05+00:00
Overloading of the word "free" here. Contextually you might be meaning anonymous, unannounced, no justification required. Only anonimity would be harmed by requiring ID and in the case of at risk manuscripts, one of a kind, holograph works of significant value, I could see reasons to say "we have a booking system"

are you being reductionist on this, and "demanding" that unconstrained access exist as a norm?

I don't find identified purposeful access objectionable. I am concerned at the amount of degredation to works from constant public access to them: its a thing in european museums, cultural exhibits, lasceaux..
by bitsage | 2025-06-24 23:23:26+00:00
I still consider the main report to not be substantiated. Israel claims that they know where the stockpile is and that they have been monitoring sites[1][2]. Some official even claimed it’s mostly under the rubble. Not sure why one is to believed and the other not when neither have hard evidence.

1. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858895 2. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858619
by user____name | 2025-06-24 23:23:38+00:00
Yes but the worry is that it a significant amount doesn't pass through us and gets stuck inside our bodies. Not only our bodies, but animals and plants also. Plastics don't occur naturally and thus evolution has not provided life with a way of dealing with it. If you ignore the problem you're just going to end up with more and more microplastics in the environment and we don't know the long term risks, we've only been using plastics at scale for a couple of decades. We used to think asbestos, cigarettes, radium, pfas, leaded gasoline, cfk, etc was all fine and good and only found out about the adverse effects after prolonged exposure.
by eru | 2025-06-24 23:24:54+00:00
> Who knows, perhaps our brains do somehow manage to do whacky quantum stuff despite seeming to be far too warm and messy for that. But even that is just an implementation detail.

Yes. And we are pretty close to building practical quantum computers. Though so far, we haven't really found much they would be good for. The most promising application seems to be for simulating quantum systems for material science.
by jayd16 | 2025-06-24 23:24:56+00:00
> Why do I even need to use the Unity3d editor for this? Why not store everything as code instead?

Some answers are... you need to recompile ever time you want to iterate on the data. You need to do a full reinstall if you were doing anything past play in editor. You need to do a week long store update if you actually shipped a game on an AOT only platform.

But yes, Unity assets don't support polymorphism like this. The data container needs to get massaged a bit.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-24 23:25:02+00:00
And yet the leaked reports don't say that happened, they say it didn't work and that most of the material and equipment was likely already moved.

Is this where we are? Just making up technobabble to glorify the US war machine in a supposedly intellectual forum? All the while the white house says the report is real, but they disagree with the contents of their own intelligence report because "we want big bomb make big boom work good"?

After 25 years it has become abundantly clear that Iraq (the concept) is what the US is, and what it deserves.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-24 23:25:03+00:00
When you get caught speeding on the road or being a nuisance otherwise you can and will get punished by the courts, including temporary restrictions on your driver license. When you money mule for others, even if you don't know that you actually fell victim to a scam, you get punished as well. When you litter in Singapore, you can get ordered to work community service.

I see no issue in handing out similar punishments in the digital space. The Internet is a shared medium, everyone who connects to it has a responsibility to not be a nuisance to others.
by gota | 2025-06-24 23:25:51+00:00
This is surprising to me. Are you implying/saying it's no big deal that 2 elected officials were shot (one killed) because they are "only" state-level politicians?

This is not a good sign for democracy in the US. I think a healthy response would be protests, investigations, state and federal "comissions" looking into domestic political terrorism, etc. A whole lot of consequences. Instead there is nothing.

In contrast, in Brazil (not even a best example of a healthiest democracy) the assassination of a city councilwoman (city! not even state!) has been a dominant story in politics for many years and has never completely fallen out of public attention. It's been close to a decade!

I'm not one to quickly say "fascism" or to spell out doom but even to me this is a crystal clear sign of a system starting to fail...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marielle_Franco
by TheAlchemist | 2025-06-24 23:26:58+00:00
That would be an option, but given how Middle East work, you're either strong or you will be bombed sooner or later.

Sure they could just make peace with Israel and that may be a solution, but not a realistic one. In the realistic solution, if they don't get a nuke, they will share the same fate as Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon...
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-24 23:27:08+00:00
There are physical limits to weight, hardness, max explosive energy and max kinetic energy and these are all known. The only way to exceed them would be to drop it from a higher altitude, like space, or give it a nuclear warhead. The US isn’t the only country that has tested bunker busters and the physics involved isn’t that hard. It’s just expensive.