MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2025-06-26 13:46:27+00:00
Western militaries have things like this: https://greydynamics.com/switchblade-drone-small-spring-load...

More autonomy, but MUCH more expensive. Thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per use. The issue is indeed using mass-produced consumer drones. It's a bit like the widespread use of "technicals" in some conflicts: yes, a pickup truck with a .50cal in the back is inferior to tanks or armored cars, but it's also much, much cheaper.

There's a bit of a "Sherman vs. Tiger" thing that's been going on since the dawn of industrialised warfare. Is it better to have a more effective weapon that you can only afford a few of, or lots of cheaper ones?

The US doctrine approach to the problem would simply be a set of B2 bunker buster decapitation strikes on Russian military HQs, but of course that option is not available to Ukraine. They can't even manage Iraq-war-style wave of SEAD strikes followed by unit level CAS. The air war has kind of stalemated with neither side having conventional air superiority and both being vulnerable to the other's anti-air.
by jimkleiber | 2025-06-26 13:46:37+00:00
There was someone that framed it like "Emotional API" but I can't remember who the guy was, and searching that on the internet now brings up a lot of AI stuff.

Your post inspires me to think of how to package some of my work of emotional conflict and health for engineers. If you're curious to talk more about it, I'd love to chat here or you can send me an email to the address in my bio.
by wccrawford | 2025-06-26 13:46:47+00:00
That actually sounds like a pretty good plan.

I did something similar with my lawn mower. I bought a battery and a single solar panel from Harbor Freight, along with the controller and wires need to hook it all together. I'd set the panel in the yard when I needed to charge the mower's batteries.

The whole thing, including the mower, cost less than half a year's fees from a yard crew, and I ended up saving money overall.

After the experiment was done (and I realized the mower was too low for my grass and was harming it) I sold the mower and gave the rest to my father-in-law for his shed.

We then got professionally installed solar panels for our house and a full-house battery. (It isn't strong enough for the air conditioner, but oh well.)

If I had it to do over again on the small scale, I'd buy an Ecoflow battery (which I have actually bought) and a solar panel made for it, and your fridge idea is a good one. It'd probably also power a fan, a light, and some light entertainment, I think.

Edit: Might go with "Anker" or "Jackery" instead of Ecoflow now, as it might be cheaper for the same thing.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-26 13:46:50+00:00
In my area, there are Telegram groups people post to. Some of these can be googled. Others you need to find someone who knows about them.

Some furry spaces, like the Furry Writer’s Guild, have Telegram or Discord links on their websites. (The FWG doesn’t require membership to access their chat rooms, but does vet accounts before allowing them in.)

There are also conventions, which is how I go involved.

You could do your own research and dig around to find local furries’ social media accounts. They may have posted something.

You might be able to send a polite email to the closest convention and say you’re new to the fandom (or area) and want to know if there are any local groups you can join.

Furry or city-specific subreddits are also an option for finding people.
by zo1 | 2025-06-26 13:47:00+00:00
Sounds like the analysts and product owners didn't really want to solve this problem. Instead they ticked the boxes, got the bonuses, and the devs never questioned it and just implemented it for fear of being PIPed.

I'm sure there is technically nothing that stopped you from treating this "Pay with Apple" thing as just another payment method inside the google account, except maybe additional complexity and red-tape.

Seen this many times when PMs, POs, and Devs code by features instead of trying to actually solve something. I don't even want to know what mess of a database schema is behind this monstrosity.
by eadmund | 2025-06-26 13:47:20+00:00
> There is usually no magic spread to be captured unless you’re willing to take more risk (say, money in equities instead of CDs).

Which is what one should do, provided one believes that the long-term result will be positive.

> Financing a depreciating asset against one that is volatile in the short term (and has seen drawdowns of 20% several times in the last 10 years) is a duration to risk mismatch.

Financing an asset and the value of an asset are independent. If one believes that one will get a better yield by investing than one could by avoiding financing, then one should finance. I believe that over time my investment returns will be higher than the current car loan rate.

> people don’t in practice use credit as liquidity backed by an investment, they use it as a cash advance to buy more car than they would absent financing … So now instead of buying a $20k car cash, people will buy a $40k car, increasing their debt load against a depreciating asset.

Yes, fools are foolish. A wise man makes educated predictions of the future. If his current total portfolio debt load can support financing a purchase, and if the rate to finance it is less than what he predicts his yield will be, then he’ll finance it.

> if that small spread from borrowing to buy a depreciating asset makes a significant difference to you

Hey, an extra 1% a year for the duration of one’s working life adds up quite significantly! The key is to carefully manage one’s expenses and balance sheet, maintaining a healthy debt ratio, only incurring debt when it makes sense, and refinancing or paying it down when that makes sense.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-26 13:47:27+00:00
I personally think Google workspace is better for small business. I think filesharing/permissions/synchronization is much easier and more intuitive across machines and employees and since everything runs in the cloud if you have say, iPads for the POS they can also use Google everything pretty easily.

Google Sheets is IMO also much nicer than Excel and for small business you don't really need to deal with Excel lock in.

That being said, the price you got seems unreal.
by whatevsmate | 2025-06-26 13:47:54+00:00
I did this a month ago and don't regret it one bit. I had a long laundry list of ML "stuff" I wanted to play with or questions to answer. There's no world in which I'm paying by the request, or token, or whatever, for hacking on fun projects. Keeping an eye on the meter is the opposite of having fun and I have absolutely nowhere I can put a loud, hot GPU (that probably has "gamer" lighting no less) in my fam's small apartment.
by haswell | 2025-06-26 13:47:56+00:00
> its about the quality of the code, not the quality of the dev. you might think it's related, but it's not.

I could not disagree more. The quality of the dev will always matter, and has as much to do with what code makes it into a project as the LLM that generated it.

An experienced dev will have more finely tuned evaluation skills and will accept code from an LLM accordingly.

An inexperienced or “low quality” dev may not even know what the ideal/correct solution looks like, and may be submitting code that they do not fully understand. This is especially tricky because they may still end up submitting high quality code, but not because they were capable of evaluating it as such.

You could make the argument that it shouldn’t matter who submits the code if the code is evaluated purely on its quality/correctness, but I’ve never worked in a team that doesn’t account for who the person is behind the code. If its the grizzled veteran known for rarely making mistakes, the review might look a bit different from a review for the intern’s code.
by drewg123 | 2025-06-26 13:48:04+00:00
I was under the impression that a lot of overdoses of acetaminophen are due to it being included in many different multiple-medicine cold/flu remidies, like cough syrup, NyQuil, decongestants, etc. So people end up exceeding the max dose accidentally when they take acetaminophen along with some of those other things.

Does the UK have rules that prevent mixing acetaminophen with other drugs? Its getting so its sometimes hard to find over the counter cold/flu medicines without acetaminophen
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-26 13:48:16+00:00
"Technically correct" about fundamental limitations of reality but you still hate the truth and it's X11's fault?

I'm not even trying to defend X11, I don't have much love for it. I've done some Xlib programming in the past and I've hated it. I've never used Wayland, and I'm mostly on Windows these days.

But, I don't see how one could make a point that X11 is bad because of poor DPI support.
by kardianos | 2025-06-26 13:48:31+00:00
As an alternative:

* Go ballroom dancing. * Go square dancing. * Go to the library and read their historical non-fiction primary sources (letters and journals). * Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist). * Go roller skating at a rink. * Go ice skating. * Go paint balling. * Go to a water park. * Go to your HOA/City/County board/commissioners meetings. * Go to your state legislature meetings. * Go to a volunteer firefighters informational meeting. * Go to a plant/flower (orchid/African violate) growers club. * Go to a sewing club. * Go to a fishing class or just fish. * Go to a hunting/gun class or just hunt/shoot.
by Zigurd | 2025-06-26 13:48:35+00:00
For a self-avowed Marxist-Leninist, Xi Jinping has a remarkably positive image in the West. I suppose most people don't think about how weird is Marxism-Leninism in the modern world. For example, the military is led by the Communist Party. Xi also appears to be far more serious about party orthodoxy than recent predecessors.

China's neighbors tend to think much less positively about China and Xi. They can't afford to be uninformed.
by palata | 2025-06-26 13:48:51+00:00
> 3 years of usage is brand new.

Usage, sure. But the technology is not. Those drones are flying smartphones. We have already had mass-produced consumer drones for more than a decade. We don't use them because they are new, we use them because they are cheap and accessible.

I am not sure what you call "consumer shit" here. They go for cheap FPV drones precisely because they are cheap. But the autopilot running in them can fly a Cessna. We can make them fly longer (they will be bigger), we can use better radios, we can add thermal cameras and bigger payloads. We can add GPUs and AI capabilities. All that we have, but then it doesn't cost 500$ anymore.

> An equivalent would be something like taping an assault rifle to a small Cessna and dominating with that.

Or maybe you see an assault rifle and say "Look at this rifle; it's only the beginning! In a couple years it will have wings and it will drop heavy bombs before returning to base, because it will be reusable". And I'm saying: we already have fighter jets; they are just more expensive.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-26 13:49:06+00:00
Thanks for sharing the bell. I'll take a look. If you want to try push notifications, I use https://pushover.net as a service.

I developed the tool myself, and it's at https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge if you feel like checking it out.

If you want to host the whole push notification infrastructure, you can look at https://ntfy.sh which also can be integrated with cURL.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-26 13:49:11+00:00
I call it context rot. As the context fills up the quality of output erodes with it. The rot gets even worse or progresses faster the more spurious or tangential discussion is in context.

This is also can be made much worse by thinking models, as their CoT is all in context, and if there thoughts really wander it just plants seeds of poison feeding the rot. I really wish they can implement some form of context pruning, so you can nip irrelevant context when it forms.

In the meantime, I make summaries and carry it to a fresh instance when I notice the rot forming.
by longtimelistnr | 2025-06-26 13:49:37+00:00
I have a large collection of vintage Mac's and peripherals, with the largest quantity being the Apple Keyboard II [1]. Archive forums all suggest the Belkin ADB Adapter [2] but that has long since been retired. I would like to make my own, i know instructions exist for a raw passthrough.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Keyboard_II.jpg

[2]https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/hack-your-old-macs-adb-k...
by evertheylen | 2025-06-26 13:50:30+00:00
If any developers are looking to isolate different dev projects from each other using containers, I wrote a tool for it (using podman), maybe someone finds it useful or can thrash its security.

Find the code on https://github.com/evertheylen/probox or read my blog post on https://evertheylen.eu/p/probox-intro/
by ta20240528 | 2025-06-26 13:50:53+00:00
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not implying anything; I'm categorically stating it: experts are better than the hoi poloi. Always.

To continue my example of thalidomide, the FDA's Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey prevented millions of American babies from being born with devastating deformities.

At the same time millions of American mothers and their GP's were clamoring for the anti-nausea drug that the British mother's were enjoying. And they too said the FDA was getting in their way.

Experts aren't "made of finer clay" : they just know a lot more than the populace about specific topics. There are other topics where I am the finer clay. See 'specialisation'.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-26 13:50:54+00:00
There seem to be two main points of critique there:

1. That there was war and war sucked; disease; and also infant mortality was high - therefore life sucked back then. None of that really factors in to the debate of how much free time people had; and those thing are all still very much with us (especially in America).

2. That food prep and gathering firewood takes time. Well, gathering firewood is also known as 'going for a walk in nature', and it's actually good for you. You can chat with your friends while you do it. It's not like your average job. It might not be technically 'idle', but it's a lot closer to 'idle' than flipping burgers in a sweatbox.

Same with food prep - picking through some dried beans, or stirring a pot every 30 mins and making sure it doesn't boil over, while you tell stories around the table just isn't comparable to working in an Amazon warehouse pissing into plastic bottles.

It's critique, and you can buy it if you want; but there's nothing there I would call substantial.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-26 13:51:28+00:00
Good article.

But I think it went slightly off the rails at one point. It's not only "white males worldwide" who feel unjustified entitlement. I mean, plenty of them do. But plenty of them don't, too.

It seems to me that it is the elites who are most prone to a sense of entitlement, and especially the children of the elites. Those with rich parents, or powerful parents, or both. (Though it can be their spouses, too - I'd consider "Karens" as a kind of unjustified entitlement.)

So to me, this one line felt like a drive-by culture war jab, in an otherwise good article.
by leguy | 2025-06-26 13:52:23+00:00
Could Gemini CLI be used for PR reviews? For example, would you expect that asking Gemini to compare two git commit hashes and analyze the code changes for potential bugs/conciseness/adhesion to the idiomatic project style, etc. to work well?

Edit: I tried it. The setup was a breeze. I fed the CLI two git commit IDs and some light prompting on what to look for. It gave a reasonable response. I'll try on a real PR shortly.
by OJFord | 2025-06-26 13:52:41+00:00
And almost all those people have 'painkillers' such as paracetamol and ibuprofen in their cupboard, which they know not to be opiates.

The point isn't to accurately describe it as 'nociceptive' (which I've never heard of before either) and have that be understood, it's to qualify it such that it isn't confusing or sounding like an historical tale of how whatever the first NSAID/analgesic was came to be.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-26 13:53:45+00:00
This was a paper work snafu, she was re-admitted into Japan by immigration officers after her visa was invalidated (because it was single entry and they cancelled the flight after we went through emigration). So it’s not like the violation was intentional or even avoidable.

China gives you a ten year unlimited entry visa, so it’s pretty hard to screw that up.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 13:53:54+00:00
Personally I think CAPTCHAs are harmful. They defend the enshittification economy, preventing the development of tools that protect human users of the web right in a time when it is more practical than ever to develop those tools.

Even in 2009 I knew people who were using neural networks (in PHP no less!) to decode CAPTCHAs with superhuman peformance. I see the whole thing as performative as those things get in my way tens or hundreds of times a day when I browse the web as a human but in years of webcrawling they didn't give me any trouble until the last two weeks.
by berkes | 2025-06-26 13:54:23+00:00
> You might not know the reason ppl use package managers.

People use package managers for the following:

- to manage dependencies - to update stuff to a specific version or the latest version - to downgrade stuff - to install stuff - to remove stuff

any of these, except for the dependency management, are a single command, or easy to do manually, with a single compiled binary. They are so simple that they can easily be built into the tool. Or handled by your OSs package manager. Or with a "shell script" that the vendor can provide (instead of, or next to, the precompiled binary.

I did not say manually, you infer that. But I never meant that. The contrary: because it's so simple, automating that, or have your distro, OS or package manager do this for you, is trivial. As opposed to that awful "curl example.com/install.sh | sudo tee -" or those horrible built-in updaters (that always start nagging when I open the app - the one moment that I don't want to be bothered by updates because I need the app now)

The only reason one would then need a package manager is to manage dependencies. But a precompiled binary like Go's or Rusts typically are statically compiled so they have no (or at most one) dependency.

Imagine the ease of a single ".targz" or so that includes the correct python version, all pips, all ENV vars, config files, and is executable. If you distribute that - what do you still need pip for? If you distribute that, how simple would turning it into a .deb, snap, dmg, flatpack, appimg, brew package, etc be? (Answer: a lot easier than doing this for the "directory of .py files. A LOT)
Ask HN: Will "indirect phones" replace today's phones?
by amichail | 2025-06-26 13:54:36+00:00
With an indirect phone, you’d never speak directly to anyone.

Instead, you’d talk to an AI that serves as your communicator.

When someone calls, the AI answers and later relays a summary of the message to you. You can ask the AI for more details about what the caller said.

If you want to reply, you do so via the AI.

For example: “Tell Joe that we can have a business meeting on Tuesday.”

Do you think such indirect phones would become popular?
by encom | 2025-06-26 13:54:40+00:00
>Please seek out help if you are struggling.

Even that process isn't easy. I've struggled with depression and anxiety most of my adult life, and only recently learned that ADHD is a major part of it. Just getting to this point (40+) has been an incredible struggle. Even when you're in the system, it feels like you have to do a lot of the work yourself, which can be impossibly hard. So hard in fact, that you some times wonder if it's even worth it. I'm in a pretty good place now, but it also feels like I still have a long way to go, because it turns out just getting ADHD meds doesn't really fix anything, and also brings with it new problems.

I guess it maybe sounds like I'm trying to dissuade people from getting help - I'm really not, but it's just the first step of an unknown amount of steps.

>'blue skies' and 'quiet mind' that can be achieved with proper treatment

I'm not there, but knowing that it's possible is what keeps me going.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-26 13:54:53+00:00
> The standard PPI on MacOS is 72 […]

[citation needed] ?

Where did you get that number from? Not saying you're wrong (or right), I'm just curious where you came up with that number? Perhaps 'back in the day' MacOS 9-based hardware does that? [1][2]

Per [3], it seems that non-Retina displays should be 100-120 ppi and Retina should be 200-230.

[1] https://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/the-72-ppi-we...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

[3] https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/
by furyofantares | 2025-06-26 13:54:53+00:00
> Because the AI-agents we use with direct code-access aren't very chatty.

Every time I tell claude code something it did is wrong, or might be wrong, or even just ask a leading question about a potential bug it just wrote, it leads with "You're absolutely correct!" before even invoking any tools.

Maybe you've just become used to ignoring this. I mostly ignore it but it is a bit annoying when I'm trying to use the agent to help me figure out if the code it wrote is correct, so I ask it some question it should be capable of helping with and it leads with "you're absolutely correct".

I didn't make a proposition that can be correct or not, and it didn't do any work yet to to investigate my question - it feels like it has poisoned its own context by leading with this.
by K0balt | 2025-06-26 13:54:55+00:00
A failure of inculturation. By default, humans are just clever apes. Language and culture transforms us into thinking beings that inhabit a worldview beyond the sensorium, of potentials, of possibilities, of hidden truths.

The inculturated self is meant to be in charge of the animal self. We see this in the inherent duality presented in language: “self control” implying a controller and one to be controlled; getting in in touch with yourself, implying a self and an estranged self… there are lots of these that explicitly call out the duality of the human experience.

This internal hierarchy is instilled in childhood with varying degrees of success. Some fail almost completely and live a life of reactivity, conspicuously devoid of consequential consideration. Some revert to the animal self through drug addiction. There are many maladies to describe the failure of character that is seen when inculturation breaks down.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-26 13:55:23+00:00
I disagree. Cash bail is about holding someone's money hostage to secure their presence at court... the problem always was the violation of 8th amendment rights. By demanding excessive bail, the person couldn't possibly cough up the amount, which forced them to utilize bail bondsmen instead. Except that turns bail into a fine, because unlike true bail which is returned when they appear at court, bonds are retained by the bail bondsman.

Simply obeying the 8th amendment would have fixed everything, and so much better too.

In some cases, high bail was used because judges were pussies who refused to deny bail to those who were actual threats to the public (see this alot whenever you hear bullshit about some killer whose bail is set at $5 million or whatever). Other times, it was just the status quo, and judges were giving no real consideration to the problem.
Show HN: Tinder-style trip planning – Trip planning for the brainrot era
by Su- | 2025-06-26 13:55:36+00:00
Hey there, I've been working on a project that helps you plan a trip by swiping through attractions like tinder. Features include:

- Add places by swiping

- Simple to use drag-and-drop itinerary planner

- Add notes to each place

- Get estimated travel and arrival times between places automatically

- Automatically arrange places into your itinerary (This doesn't work that well tbh)

- Share trips with friends

Source code available at: https://github.com/Suu-ly/Outbound

It's pretty good for planning day trips but frankly not the best for multi-day trips. Let me know what you think! Thanks