MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nicman23 | 2025-07-24 05:32:41+00:00
what are you talking about? are you talking about the kernel or the vendor?

if so they ought to be replaced anyways for a secure phone. please tell me graphene is not rawdogging Alphabet's compiled stuff.

if you are talking about firmware blobs then ok but still weird as the blobs are the same per soc

E: if you are talking about tpm and other stuff, eh. they are closed source anyways and i, as a user, cannot actually validate them
by rgmerk | 2025-07-24 05:33:50+00:00
Firstly, most EVs that have strong regenerative braking ("one-pedal") setups allow you to adjust the strength or turn it off. Tesla, as usual, is the outlier in this respect.

Secondly, I rented an EV for a week and by the end of it actually preferred the strong regen setting. It was convenient in stop-start traffic, and on a twisty road, you could use it to tighten the nose as you entered the corner.
by crinkly | 2025-07-24 05:36:42+00:00
Personally, and I have no relation to OP, there was no compelling security advantage for me. Email has no security guarantees unless you use PGP and I don’t know anyone who uses PGP. If someone wants to read my at rest mail they are going to compel me to hand over my keys anyway. And I think the best security policy when it comes to file services is: don’t.

And on top of that I need to back up my email to my offline storage and doing that with their proprietary stuff is a pain.

In the end I just moved to Fastmail and use it as a simple IMAP/SMTP service. Emails I don’t need any more are archived to offline folders in TB.

My entire public cloud exposure is literally one imap mailbox (with 11 emails in it) and 1 static html file in fastmail’s public web service infra. Oh and separate DNS/domain provider.
by lmm | 2025-07-24 05:37:28+00:00
This is a more nuanced summary than you often see; honestly tram trains have always seemed like an extremely overhyped solution, only one step down from out-and-out gadgetbahns. Yes there are a handful of cities in which they apparently work ok. But they're far from the magic bullet certain kinds of transport fan want to portray them as. Often what your city needs is just a regular tram, or a regular train, or maybe even just integrated ticketing so that people can easily change from the train to the bus.
by bigiain | 2025-07-24 05:38:38+00:00
Probably not?

But I barely understand how shit works when you operate at Google scale.

I wonder how many "Android-ish" devices like maybe in car entertainment systems are out there and reporting all their telemetry data back to Google? I wonder how much "Android" is in vehicles with AndroidAuto, and whether that hardware typically has temperature and pressure sensors like phones do?

If I had, say, a billion cars sending me data that includes temp, location, and possibly some vehicle specific CANBUS type data - I'd guess there could possibly be a signal in there that could reliably report temps and pressures at locations, based on heuristics that identify cars parked outdoors.

Same with phones. At the scale of "every single Android phone on the planet", the left over after "the majority of phone that aren't in a position to accurately measure outdoor temperature" still leaves a huge number of devices. I suspect even something stupidly simple like "What's the p99 low temperature of all the Android temp reports in a suburb?" might be a really good indicator, when "all the Android phones in a suburb" might be 10,000 devices or more?
by adrian_b | 2025-07-24 05:38:40+00:00
Unfortunately, even if the thermally-grown silicon dioxide is what has enabled the appearance of the monolithic integrated circuits and of the MOSFET transistors, eventually it had to be replaced.

There are already around two decades since silicon dioxide is no longer used as the gate insulator in high-performance transistors. The reason is that its dielectric constant is too low, so for very small transistors the gate would have to be too thin, so thin that it is impossible for it to not have holes and also impossible to prevent electrons from tunneling through it.

Therefore silicon dioxide has been replaced by hafnium dioxide (a part of the hafnium may be substituted with zirconium or rare-earth elements), which has a much higher dielectric constant, and which is also chemically resistant enough to survive the following wafer processing steps.

Because HfO2 cannot be grown in place, but it must be deposited in its entirety, it is much more difficult to ensure that the insulator-semiconductor interface is perfect, but the industry had to solve this problem decades ago, otherwise it would have been impossible to make the transistors smaller.

For other semiconductors than silicon, the gate insulator always had to be deposited. Because this is hard, metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs not made of silicon or of silicon carbide had only very rarely been used in the past. The transistors that are not made of Si or SiC typically are either Shottky-gate FETs or heterojunction bipolar transistors.
by neoden | 2025-07-24 05:39:03+00:00
Zed was my daily driver for almost a year. When it's working fine and not drawing the mouse cursor at 3 FPS it feels pretty much as anything else in terms of perceived speed. I saw mentions that you need to be younger to notice the difference. Like you don't hear frequencies above 18 KHz if you're more than 20 years old. I get the idea, I just don't see where it is connected to my real world experience
by joules77 | 2025-07-24 05:40:06+00:00
For that you have to read Chricton's other book Jurassic Park.

There the message is simple - chimps with 3 inch brains love to pretend they can control ever increasing complex systems and scale. And obviously they can't.

China's enemy is Complexity. Not the US which is too lost to talk about. Complexity goes on increasing and pressure to pretend they have control also increases. Mistakes will be made and multiply with time. So see Covid, Evergrande/Country Garden, techbro crackdown, young ppl checking out etc. Larger the system more the issues not less. More fragile. Not less.
by NewJazz | 2025-07-24 05:40:58+00:00
As another data point, I've owned PHEVs and EVs for gosh 6 years now and I still prefer the "weak" regen with the Chevy paddle brake to modulate. Sometimes when I have a clear path, e.g. a down hill on a highway, I just throw it in neutral for a pure coast and shift back into drive when I need to.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-24 05:41:44+00:00
I'll add that Hawaii currently generates 20%+ of their electricity from non-fossil fuels. Plus they are actively reducing fossil generation with a view to removing it completely.

Changes on this scale take time. But to make the islands much less dependent on fossil fuels, a two-pronged strategy is in play. Reduce fossil fuel generation, but also reduce the dependence on fossil fuel in transport.

As a long-term strategy, reducing the cost of importing all that fuel, over vast distances, seems to be a huge win for the islands. In every way (politically, economically, socially, environmentally) generating their own energy is a win.
by trhway | 2025-07-24 05:46:16+00:00
>Chinese competition simply won't be allowed. Easy as that.

Then the domestic industry will just rot from inside. It is usually a worse outcome than if the domestic industry were competing in the open market.

Tariffs and other protectionist measures result in the low quality high priced product of the protected industry being sellable only in the domestic market. Where is China is going to sell to the rest of the world. 340M vs. almost 8B of addressable market. It is a writing on the wall.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-24 05:47:06+00:00
Not directly, it wasn’t:

>>> open('foo') * 3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: '_io.TextIOWrapper' and 'int'

You have to go to some length to get Python to mix types so badly.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-24 05:47:53+00:00
> According to Wikipedia, the Xiaomi SU7 Max has 1,784 hp and is priced at 73,000 USD. In some YouTube videos, they raced against Ferraris and Bugattis, and it fared better than much more expensive cars. I have no idea how they did it.

A Cybertruck may look clumsy, but it can been a Lamborghini. Instant torque.

The highest horsepower in a Ferrari road car is 1,200 in the F80. Though, I’m pretty confident you got the HP wrong for the Xiaomi.
by Trenthug | 2025-07-24 05:47:54+00:00
This paper presents a descriptive model of consciousness based on information theory The aim is to enumerate definitely described aspects of consciousness and present them in a coherent manner,talks about both phenomenal Consciousness (seen as attention)and access Consciousness,

Some aspects described about consciousness might seem akin to karl friston's view of defining brains as Bayesian inference machines, Wittgenstein's private language argument and Tononi's IIT usage of a complexity metric(amount of information) for measurement purposes with some subtleties of of it's own to add .

The part about choosing a method of measuring complexity seems to be something that can be looked over by a logician to get it refined for the models usage, some thought experiments with conjectures are there in that regard which might be worth looking into or to check their validity.
by aitchnyu | 2025-07-24 05:49:01+00:00
I used to auto bold with Solr with <b> tags in 2011. In hindsight, I should have whitelisted only <b> tags for user inputs, resumes in this case.

Rambling on, Solr is an Apache product, does tandem releases with Apache Lucene, big sister of Elasticsearch. ES used/uses Apache Lucene too as underlying database.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-24 05:49:16+00:00
The reserves of indium are extremely small. Any new use that would increase demand would also increase the price. Also that price is for commercially pure indium. After indium is purified enough to be usable in semiconductor devices the price increases many times, possibly much more than 10 times.

Currently, the major consumers of indium are all the screens for monitors, laptops and smartphones, which use indium oxide as a transparent conductor, then the LEDs used in lighting and indicators. Also the power devices with gallium nitride contain indium, and their use is increasing.

There exist no mines of indium. Indium can be obtained as a byproduct from the extraction of other metals, primarily from zinc mining, but its concentration in zinc minerals is very small.

In order to produce more indium, one also has to produce more zinc, in an amount several orders of magnitude greater than the amount of produced indium. When the demand from indium will exceed that available from the current zinc production, further increases in demand will increase the indium price much steeper.

Except for indium, among the other chemical elements only for the platinum-group metals there is a so great mismatch between the amount that would be required by potential applications and the amount that is available on Earth. Selenium and tellurium are also close of these from this point of view.
by sherr | 2025-07-24 05:49:50+00:00
This is the point that The Economist made this week about Xiaomi. It looks like Lei Jun, the CEO, has a bit of a cult following in China.

"With the successful release of the YU7—its second electric vehicle (EV) after the SU7, a sporty sedan launched in March last year—Xiaomi has pulled off a feat that eluded Apple, which ditched plans to make its own EV after burning billions of dollars on the effort over a decade."

There's also a brutal price war going on over there. Those cars will be exported worldwide. Western countries are in a bind: protect the local manufacturer or allow the (much) cheaper and environmentally sound EV in from China?

"China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed" [1]

https://archive.is/4o8hM
by tzs | 2025-07-24 05:50:46+00:00
> With regards to LLM content in the legal system, law firms can use LLMs in the same way an experienced attorney uses a junior attorney to write a first pass

Junior attorneys would not produce a first pass that cites and quotes nonexistent cases or cite real cases that don’t match what it quotes.

The experienced attorney is going to have to do way more work to use that first draft from an LLM then they would to use a first draft from an actual human junior attorney.
by jaccarmac | 2025-07-24 05:50:59+00:00
A discussion by Joe is helpful here; It contains some code: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-March/007...

"Crashing is loud" below is a phrase to combine with "remote error recovery" from the link above. Erlang/OTP wants application structure that is peculiar to it, and makes that structure feel ergonomic.

> If I ship a feature that has a type error on some code path ... How is "let it crash" helpful to my customer?

The crash can be confined to the feature instead of taking down the entire app or corrupting its state. With a well-designed supervision structure, you can also provide feedback that makes the error report easier to solve.

However, while a type error in some feature path is a place that makes type annotations make sense, type annotations can only capture a limited set of invariants. Stronger type systems encode more complex invariants, but have a cost. "Let it crash" means bringing a supervisor with simple behavior (usually restart) or human into the loop when you leave the happy path.
by cyberax | 2025-07-24 05:51:47+00:00
> If all of us renters were forced to convert to electric there’d never be an open charger in any city again for the next five years, because no landlord will voluntarily afford that cost, and no municipal region can pass a ballot measure to afford that cost.

Landlords can charge tenants over the price of electricity.

> What city has charging available for an average of greater than one spot per five hundred multifamily-housing residents?

Shanghai: https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-Latest-WhatsNew/20240508/...
by Animats | 2025-07-24 05:51:57+00:00
Improved materials. Kevlar and Dyneema.[1] Dyneema is about 15x stronger than steel per unit weight. Kevlar toothed belts have been available for many years, and can be used for many of the same applications as this capstan setup. Neither material has much elasticity.

The advantage over gears is that overloads are distributed over much more material. You don't snap gear teeth. This is good for leg landing shocks.

[1] https://www.impact-fibers.com/info/unveiling-the-strength-ke...
by avidiax | 2025-07-24 05:52:06+00:00
> you have to constantly ride the gas pedal.

Are you not? Do you drive by blipping the gas every few seconds?

I've had Uber drivers do this and it is annoying bordering on nauseating as a passenger. It is probably pretty bad for mileage and transmission wear as well (constantly taking up and releasing the backlash in the gears).
by sngz | 2025-07-24 05:53:34+00:00
easy to understand and use for everyone. you no longer need to spend tons of time teaching junior devs how to use git. By default mercurial also doesn't let you change history. There's no staging area or indexing before the commit. The gui and commands make total sense to the layman.

Git is definitely more powerful but causes more damage than good and wastes more time in most workplaces who are just looking for some simple version control and branching/merging features.
by MindSpunk | 2025-07-24 05:53:42+00:00
It's not "nearly". It's exactly the same effect. Compression braking. Even if you're not on the throttle the engine is still rotating as it's connected to the wheels. If the engine is rotating it is compressing air. If it's compressing air but not igniting fuel (throttle closed) then it will suck energy out of the wheels to compress the air.

You can do it in an automatic, you just have to force it to select a lower gear using the gear number options (1, 2, 3, 4) or using the tiptronic mode. The lower gear means the engine will displace more air in the same amount of time, increasing the rate it pulls energy from the wheels.

People think you can't do it in automatics because they try very hard to keep engine RPM low where the effect is diminished.
by anon7000 | 2025-07-24 05:54:08+00:00
Here’s a fact: if a right only applies to US Citizens, and not to anyone else, then it’s not an inalienable right. Which means it’s essentially not a human right. This is foundational to why America’s exists in the first place, just take a look at the declaration of independence.

Now, take a look at this part of the bill of rights:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.

In my view, it’s pretty fucking obvious that the founders would apply this to digital data. My Instagram account is after all, just a digital personal effect.

It’s my right that this data is secured from the government’s eyes. Whether or not the government wants that to be a right is irrelevant. If digital data is a clear extension of property rights, then it’s inalienable — a fundamental human right that the government is violating, albeit lawfully.

And if it’s fundamental, then it applies to any human. If it’s not fundamental, then it’s not a right, and digital data can’t be protected. Not a foreigners, and not mine.

So when the dumbasses in charge of the federal government want to violate the human rights of a foreigner, that really just means they don’t view it as a human right in the first place.

This applies to social media here, but also to due process with respect to ICE.
by kieckerjan | 2025-07-24 05:54:31+00:00
I actually encountered this pretty early in one of these user tuned GPT's in OpenAI's GPT store. It was called Sommelier or something and it was specialized in conversations about wine. It was pretty useful at first, but after a few weeks it started lacing all its replies with tips for wines from the same online store. Needless to say, I dropped it immediately.
by boudin | 2025-07-24 05:54:39+00:00
Nice try and thanks for proving my point, continuing to try to lure to wrong conclusion using unrelated data.

Actual storm events (just scrolling gives an idea of the acceleration of the phenomena): https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/past-uk-weather...

Conclusion from a met office study around the direction we're going https://www.ukclimateresilience.org/news-events/climate-chan...
by frm88 | 2025-07-24 05:56:19+00:00
I second windy. Very detailed and precise. Supports several models/data sources like ECMWF, Arome, Meteo Blue etc. They still have a free tier with a 5-day forecast and a very expensive premium tier (10 days, I believe??) - but everything longer than 5 days tends to get increasingly im precise anyways.
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-24 05:58:29+00:00
> Do we say "UK developers new method

All the time. Just search for "UK/British scientists/engineers invent/develop" (with quotes). There are lots of headlines like that.

E.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/10/british-scientis...

It's more that you don't really get any headlines out of China that aren't from or laundered through Chinese English-language media first. Whereas in the West, universities send their PR pieces to the Western media directly. No normal journalist is trolling Arxiv or Nature or whatever for juicy papers, and certainly not Chinese-language journals: they're just rehashing the media release, usually uncritically. Which is why you hear about every time someone sneezes near a new battery chemistry that "may revolutionise energy storage" but "needs more research into mass production methods" at MIT but almost never at Tsinghua, unless it's done the rounds first and caused a stir in the domain-specific publications.
by greazy | 2025-07-24 06:00:39+00:00
I googled (Australia) "what temp is pork safe at?", top three hits:

1. https://www.foodsafety.asn.au/australians-clueless-about-saf... 2. https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/safe-minimum-i... 3. https://pork.org/pork-cooking-temperature/

All three were highly informative, well cited sources from reputable websites.
by pstuart | 2025-07-24 06:01:43+00:00
> No this administration is set on protecting industry

No, this administration ostensibly wants to Make America Great Again, but that requires policy that is focused on the greater good -- with a long term vision on the investment.

The reality is that they are actually interested in is actually a kakistocracy and has the following concerns: self-enrichment, staying in power, and oppressing its enemies.
by omnicognate | 2025-07-24 06:03:35+00:00
If I do that search on Google right now, the top result is the National Pork Board (pork.org): ad-free, pop-up free, waffle-free and with the correct answer in large font at the top of the page. It's in F, but I always stick " C" at the end of temperature queries. In this case that makes the top result foodsafety.gov which is equally if not more authoritative, also ad-, waffle-, and popup- free and with with the answer immediately visible.

Meanwhile the AI overview routinely gives me completely wrong information. There's zero chance I'm going to trust it when a wrong answer can mean I give my family food poisoning.

I agree that there is a gigaton of crap out there, but the quality information sources are still there too. Google's job is to list those at the top and it actually has done so this time, although I'll acknowledge it doesn't always and I've taken to using Kagi in preference for this reason. A crappy AI preview that can't be relied on for anything isn't an acceptable substitute.
by mavelikara | 2025-07-24 06:05:34+00:00
> companies are more than willing to have a AI that does X shittier but without a salary, than to hire a guy that does it amazing and pay him a salary.

To understand this better, people should look at their own purchasing behavior. High quality goods are always replaced by "good enough" items that are significantly cheaper. Amazon, Temu, Shien etc are all great examples of those marketplaces.

Also, programers are aware of "The Rise of Worse is Better" paper for 30+ years - the inferior but simpler solution wins, and over time the issues are fixed by lots of people putting lots of work into it.
by masklinn | 2025-07-24 06:05:36+00:00
No reason for it not to work, even more so if you think to downshift. It’s more common with manual as downshifting is a lot more natural but not fundamentally different.

It’s just trivially easy with electric thanks to regen braking.

Though with modern cars getting heavier if you have a small ICE these days you have almost no engine brake which makes some cases more difficult (unless it’s a mild hybrid with an electric kers like some of the small engined fords). SUVs tend to have giant engines and pretty high rolling resistance, which I’d think would somewhat compensated for their higher inertia.

It’s all about learning your car’s behaviour and planning for it.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-24 06:05:47+00:00
Yep, that's why I like strict tooling with LLMs (and actually real people as well, but that's a different conversation :D)

When you have a standard build process that runs go vet, go test, golanci-lint, goimports and compiles the code you can order the LLM to do that as the last step every time.

This way at the very least the shit it produces is well-formed and passes the tests :)

Otherwise they tend to just leave stuff hanging like "this erroring test is unrelated to the current task, let's just not run it" - ffs you just broke it, it passed perfectly before you started messing with the codebase =)