MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mittensc | 2025-07-20 22:11:01+00:00
Try and follow /new on raspberry_pi or similar...

You'll see reason for the hate, mainly with people not bothering to spend any time searching before posting.

And it is getting worse, new people asking help: 'but chatgpt told me X', 'I followed chatgpt and it doesnt work, please help fix bug', or some idiots that might burn the house down and deserve yelling (li-ion batteries aren't a joke, ac current likewise)

Or... LLM generated stuff... which is equal to spam...

If some people like doing unappreciated tech support all power to them, others might fight through spam to find nice items, I mostly stopped bothering and looking for something else. (also yelling at idiots that might kill themselves)
by pndy | 2025-07-20 22:11:30+00:00
That's my question as well. If he's so concerned about this then what about other services? Polish Allegro quite recently had to add a filter on their site to sieve out all sellers from outside EEA because they flooded it.

Moreover, there are physical stores that also sell this "dangerous" stuff. My friend worked in one and she complained all the time on chemical odour these items were generating.
by Hizonner | 2025-07-20 22:12:35+00:00
Those are thresholds for extra requirements.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...

Everybody (who's not specifically exempted by Schedule 1, which has nothing to do with what you linked to) gets a "duty of care".Everybody has to do a crapton of specific stupid (and expensive) administrative stuff. Oh, and by the way you'd better pay a lawyer to make sure that any Schedule 1 (or other) exemption you're relying on actually applies to you. Which they may not even be able to say because of general vagueness and corner cases that the drafters didn't think of.

Also, it's not a "ruling". It's a law with some implementing regulations.
by dragontamer | 2025-07-20 22:12:50+00:00
Pretty much all instructions at the assembly level are sequences of AND/OR/XOR operations.

SAT solvers can prove that some (shorter) sequences are equivalent to other (longer) sequences. But it takes a brute force search.

IIRC, these super optimizing SAT solvers can see patterns and pick 'Multiply' instructions as part of their search. So it's more than traditional SAT. But it's still... At the end of the day.... A SAT equivalence problem.
by MattGaiser | 2025-07-20 22:13:36+00:00
> Dr. Robert Cannon, a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said he believed the system was hesitant to confront safety lapses during circulatory death donations, out of fear that people would stop donating.

The irony, as they chose not to fix this for that reason.

I understand why people cover things up for that reason, but what I don't understand is why they expect to keep it under wraps forever, making fixing it a priority.
by immibis | 2025-07-20 22:14:05+00:00
Indeed. In Germany, it's generally legal to see in people's windows, legal for them to do whatever they want in their windows (you can't file a complaint someone is naked in their apartment with the curtains open - they will just tell you not to look if you don't want to see it) and illegal to record in other people's windows.

Illegal recording is a pretty good rule actually. Almost every party I've been to has a rule against filming dance floors, although in German law it's only illegal to publish a recording "of" a person. The flip side to illegal recording is that it's effectively legal to do silly things without worrying it'll haunt you forever, and that's pretty cool. Note the relatively relaxed attitude to things like public nudity (which is only legal in certain places as I understand it, but still). Almost every Berlin party I've ever been to has a rule against filming.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-20 22:14:11+00:00
But their parents didn't need 20 or 30 years to build up their assets, or did they? They could purchase a new car when they were in their prime at 20-30 years old. Real estate they already had before buying the car. People who are in their prime today have to wait to be 50+ to have real estate, and if they want to have a new car they have to forgo that.
by smj-edison | 2025-07-20 22:14:16+00:00
I'd be worried about compile times, lol. Final binaries are quite often tens to hundreds of megabytes, pretty sure an LLM processes tokens much slower than a compiler completes passes.

EDIT: another thought: non-deterministic compilation would also be an issue unless you were tracking the input seed, and it would still cause spooky action at a distance unless you had some sort of recursive seed. Compilers are supposed to be reliable and deterministic, though to be fair advanced optimizations can be surprising because of the various heuristics.
by comrade1234 | 2025-07-20 22:14:32+00:00
Similar to when my mother died of cancer while I was in high school but one big difference was how rational and aware the mother in this story was compared to my mother on her last night and day while undergoing hallucinations from the incredible pain she was experiencing. There were moments where she would recognize you and grip your hand and then she would be lost and rambling and saying nonsense and completely separate from us in another world until finally she took her last breath.

This was at-home hospice. Very different than when my father died of ALS a few decades later and the nurses were knowingly and purposefully giving him morphine so that he could suffocate in peace as his diaphragm stopped working but at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-07-20 22:15:18+00:00
> If you're using it as a currency then you're not holding it for significant periods of time and the entire point is to make it an automated process, so you're buying some cryptocurrency for cash and then immediately spending it. How much volatility do you really expect in the timespan of a fraction of a second?

That is the point of me mentioning that points 2 and 3 are linked. If you are only immediately purchasing crypto and then using it for a purchase, your middleman risk has moved from the payment processor to the crypto exchange. Every purchase you make now relies on whether or not you can make the exchange at the moment. Which is point 3.

The alternative is you make larger exchanges of money, which means you need to deal with volatility: point 2.

If the price of crypto was stable (at least about as much as any major currency), you could exchange much of it in bulk, and delays in exchanging it back into cash would be less of an issue. Even less of an issue if more merchants accepted crypto: point 1.
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-20 22:15:36+00:00
OK, so let's avoid elitism by doing away with standards altogether. No doubt, doing away with the ISO would bring joy to the treasurers of contributing member states. Whilst we're at it, why not do way with the Metric system which would bring cheers from Trump's backward America?

What I said has absolutely nothing to do with elitism. Your point is a circular argument that spirals inward and ends up going nowhere.

Professionalism and excellence not only have to be learned but also require diligence and persistence under the guidance of skilled professional educators, it's why we have universities.

It's nonsense to suggest that parents can do a better job than professional eductors/training. Perhaps that notion comes from only-in-America homeschooling.

Where I come from we'd never entertain the idea for a moment.
by palata | 2025-07-20 22:15:48+00:00
> They are not. With the one you buy at your local store, you get the two years warranty

And with the Temu one I get 250 units for the same price. I don't know how often you break a zipper, but 250x in two years sounds like a lot :-).

> should the thing contain, say, lead paint you can hold the seller accountable.

I understand what you are saying, but honestly I doubt they check every 10cm of every zipper for traces of lead (or other). If there is ever an issue, maybe (?) they will recall them somehow, but I probably won't ever know (say I paid cash, they don't have a way to contact me at all, and with a credit card I'm not sure if they can / will find my contact ever).

> But I'll need to wait about two days for shipping, whereas the local electronics store has it right now when I need it.

Sure! But the fact is that I'm absolutely fine waiting 2 days if it costs me 250x less. Actually with Temu it's more a few weeks, I would think? Still worth it for zippers.

If the zipper was sold for 1$ in the local store, that would be different. But 10$? At this point I just don't want the zipper at all. So in a way it's not really "Temu vs local store". If I don't get it on Temu, I don't get it at all.
by nobody9999 | 2025-07-20 22:16:21+00:00
>This is a classical microeconomics problem of supply and demand. Markets are good at that to drive the price down. For people who can't afford it the government may redistribute the taxes from the healthy people to pay for treatment.

While it is something of a trope, I'm not sure I want to be (or would be able to do so) doing price comparisons between hospitals (or ambulances for that matter) as my internal organs ooze onto the pavement after being struck by a semi truck and dragged 40 meters.

That's the primary issue with using price signals in a healthcare setting. Especially in a system where the recipient of services doesn't actually pay the total costs out-of-pocket for those services.

Which creates perverse incentives for both the payer and the provider.

And since that's not likely to change anytime soon, a single-payer system makes a lot of sense.

Non-emergency treatment/care not related to any emergency care would definitely benefit from increased supply and more information.

What, specific regulations would you like to see removed from hospital settings? I want to emphasize that this is not a rhetorical question.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-20 22:16:24+00:00
> If you refused to look at the animation, it’s just a bluish-green background with a red circle on top that slowly shrinks down to nothing. That’s all. But as it shrinks, you should hallucinate a very intense blue-green color around the rim.

I do not believe I have any kind or amount of colorblindness, so imagine my surprise when extremely confused I pulled the image into MS Paint, used the Color Picker tool, and found that indeed, the background has quite a bit of blue in it.

Anyhow, I cannot reproduce the illusion cited. For me the circle just blurs out and I start seeing orange.
by Muromec | 2025-07-20 22:17:39+00:00
From what I heard It's a scaleup of Dutch IDEAL, which is a wrapper around SEPA. End user scans a QR code generated by a merchant with their bank app and everything magically works, including sharing the address. Bank app shows the amount and merchant name on the screen before approving and merchant gets the confirmation right away. I having used VISA/Mastercard network that much for years because IDEAL exists.

Haven't heard about the EU version of it being anywhere in the works and I work in places where I should hear it.

https://wero-wallet.eu/
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-07-20 22:18:04+00:00
A handful of US companies take a cut from nearly every payment on the planet, and now they’re caving to pressure from Twitter mobs and puritan lobbies, censoring global content just to avoid upsetting shareholders.

Visa and Mastercard haven’t brought anything new in years. Their infrastructure still dominates out of habit, not merit. Meanwhile, alternatives like stablecoins and European systems like EPI or the digital euro are gaining ground.

Their boldness is honestly surprising, especially now that real competition is finally emerging.
by HPsquared | 2025-07-20 22:18:08+00:00
What about a ΔT of say 20°C? I'd reckon most refrigerators and air conditioners are around there (temp difference of refrigerant between evaporator and condenser).

Stacking a bunch of these Peltiers to give more temperature difference would give a pretty low CoP. Say, for a 13°C temperature difference you'd have to stack 10 of them and use 10x the power. It's even worse actually as the hotter ones have to also pump the waste heat from the cooler ones.
by bsder | 2025-07-20 22:18:09+00:00
> Strip out the DRM

Um, you just hit why HDMI sucks. You have a "default broken" state that is required by the standard.

Look, every single interface could have been an evolution of Ethernet (and mostly ARE--HDMI and USB-C are basically enshittified Ethernet). But they weren't because everybody wants to put their fingers in the pie and take out a chunk for profit by being a rent-seeking middleman.
by pedalpete | 2025-07-20 22:18:20+00:00
All of the hamburger and chicken-finger alternative meat companies missed the lesson where you want to target a high-dollar small market first, and then spread from there.

There is WAY too much competition from regular meat, to bean/tofu/other vegetarian options that alternative meat just can't compete with on price.

From what I've seen, Vow (https://www.eatvow.com/) are the only company that has taken a different approach and gone ultra-high end with their "cultured meats". Rather than trying to re-create a simple burger, they've made meats that can't exist in the real world. Their Japanese Qual Foix Gras has been available in Singapore for a while now and is coming to Sydney this month (I believe).

This product is only sold at ultra-high end restaurants where people want the experience and are willing to pay for it.

Vow didn't need to scale manufacturing to huge levels and try to boil the ocean all at once. They have a step by step plan ala Tesla where they start with the ultra-small scale very expensive foods, then move slightly down market, and continue until they are able to make affordable mass-market cultured foods for everyone.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-20 22:19:31+00:00
We vote on the representatives, who in turn spend an awful lot of time talking to all sorts of interest groups - manufacturers, other parts of the economic chain, consumer and environmental protection organizations, lawyers, industry organizations, god knows what else - and in the end usually come up with decent regulations as a result.

I agree that the results can be sometimes weird, sometimes annoying, and sometimes outright dumb. But I'll rather pay that price than not have USB-C, two year product warranties, no lead in kids' toys or access to clean and safe drinking water.
by massysett | 2025-07-20 22:19:48+00:00
The instant I saw the title I knew the post would be “I turned off oh-my-zsh” or “I tweaked oh-my-zsh.”

Yes zsh has a bunch of settings and dense documentation, and it can be hard to understand. The problem with something like oh-my-zsh is that now you have two things you don’t understand, and worse, when something doesn’t work you don’t know which one isn’t working or where to look.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-20 22:20:46+00:00
Walmart vs. IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Apricot and the likes.

I remember this, because around that time I got my first PC(not my first computer), which was a 25Mhz 486. For 5000.- Deutsche Mark. At that time such systems from IBM, Compaq and so on sold for 15.000.- Deutsche Mark.

My system lacked the cache RAMs for the L2, and the tag RAM for these, though I could, and did plug these in afterwards, for actually not that much money(about 80 Deutschmarks).

It also had a slow and small PATA disk, on a mediocre mainboard. Just 80MB. The VGA screen I initially got with it was also mediocre at best, as was the ISA VGA in a VESA Local Bus system...

For the 15.000 of whicheveruniversalcreditunits at the time, vs. just 5000 of them, you'd gotten a more balanced system from IBM, Compaq, etc., with larger and faster disk(s), more RAM, working L2-cache, maybe even SCSI, better graphics, probably better screen, keyboard & mouse.
by ppqqrr | 2025-07-20 22:21:36+00:00
the web died years ago, for a different reason: labor monopoly. The web, and software in general, stopped reflecting or serving users, when the ruling class started pouring massive capital to dismantle any paradigm for major web/software development other than ones vetted by pedigree VCs and planned for obsolescence by acquisition. Gen AI is actually the only thing that could’ve punctured their hold on world software - the vague air of confidence they maintain when they talk about “their future of AI” is a facade. There’s already a new Web (or Webs) coming that will dwarf the current one, and it won’t be coming from them - so they’re clinging to their only means of control: the AI token infra.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-20 22:21:45+00:00
So change your router settings to offer a different default DNS via DHCP? Maybe configure your device(s) to use some other specific DNS servers rather than the ones offered via DHCP?

For the site operator: the domain is present in the Spamhaus DBL (Domain Block List), which is presumably why these lovely gents are having issues, might wanna check that out.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-20 22:22:33+00:00
Can you expand on that?

I mean there’s the art of software architecture, and there’s also generating a pile of shit code.

As it so happens, it takes experience to learn software architecture.

Anyone can code, there’s really zero skill required if you have a working brain.

Actually scaling software (not just performance but also organizationally so thousands of engineers can be productive and maintenance can be manageable, or managing a monolith or bunch of microservices whatever) takes skill.

I follow design patterns in my code and I tell AI to follow various rules. Like using layers as a low hanging fruit so it doesn’t jam crap into a single file. Single responsibility so it doesn’t write functions that do 10 things inside it. And so on.
by nine_k | 2025-07-20 22:23:30+00:00
> want to be able to say whatever they want with no repercussions

Rather, they want to be able to say anything to annoy people as much as possible, for the kicks.

Verily, it's important to be able to say annoying things: try speaking about atheism or a different religion in a devout crowd (capitalism among the "left", climate change among the "right", etc). But the intention is important. The intention of trolls is to enjoy other people's discomfort, not to voice an important idea.

Unfortunately, this is very hard to formalize.
by MrJohz | 2025-07-20 22:23:48+00:00
And yet in the nearly thirty years since he said that, the browser has come to dominate how people interact with UIs. Both in terms of sheer popularity (not only do we have complex applications on the web, but we also package complex applications with browsers as desktop applications) as well as influence (SwiftUI, Flutter, and Jetpack Compose all borrow heavily from frameworks developed primarily for the web).

I think a lot of this has to do with the idea that Kay is criticising here: HTML as a mechanism for building applications has been so successful because it needs to be interpreted by a browser. That provides a tremendous level of sandboxing that makes it a lot easier to trust whatever website you're loading than the application you're installing. It also provides a grab-bag of useful controls and elements, while still being completely flexible with creating new ones without needing to resort to OOP inheritance chains or raw graphics drawing APIs. This is all to say nothing of accessibility, which is practically built into the browser.
by bsder | 2025-07-20 22:23:53+00:00
> The question is, does that prevent something worse from breaking?

That doesn't matter if it means, for example, that my new mixer can't actually mix bread dough on a higher speed anymore (citing this as it's actually a failure mode on newer (like 1970s forward) KitchenAid mixers to the point that the manual mentions it).

That is an objective decrease in quality and fitness for purpose.
by crote | 2025-07-20 22:24:03+00:00
Smaller entities are rarely looking for a full exception, they just want the regulations to be implementable without being a megacorp.

Take something like a plastic packaging tax, for example. A company like Amazon won't have too much trouble setting up a team to take care of this, and they can be taxed by the gram and by the material. But expecting the same from a mom-and-pop store is unreasonable - the fee isn't the problem, but the administrative overhead can be enough to kill them. Offering an alternative fixed-fee structure for companies below certain revenue thresholds would solve that problem, while still remaining true to the original intention.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-20 22:24:05+00:00
AVX512 is a set of extensions. You can’t even count on an AVX512 CPU implementing all of the AVX512 instructions you want to use, unless you stick to the foundation instructions.

Modern encoders also have better scaling across threads, though not infinite. I was in an embedded project a few years ago where we spent a lot of time trying to get the SoC’s video encoder working reliably until someone ran ffmpeg and we realized we could just use several of the CPU cores for a better result anyway
by rcxdude | 2025-07-20 22:25:35+00:00
You can get a COP of ~3-4 out of regular TECs, but only at pretty low temperature differences. That's the killer, fundamentally the TEC material itself is thermally conductive and heat really wants to flow back the other way, so no matter how well it moves the heat, it winds up fighting against the heat load generated by itself. A refrigerant based heat pump works much better because the heat basically only moves in the direction the refrigerant itself is moving.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-20 22:27:26+00:00
An unhealthy attachment to determinism will turn out to be a career-limiting hangup, I suspect. You already lack insight into how 100% of the code in your project works, unless you only work on trivial projects. Did you think that state of affairs was going to get better with time? As usual, TDD covers a multitude of sins.

As for "autocorrect," let us know when your "autocorrect" takes gold at the International Math Olympiad, with or without steroids.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-20 22:27:44+00:00
I saw an electronic scooter in a shop here in Slovenia, but the name of the brand was unknown to me, and the price was quite high. (1500 EUR!)

I searched the brand on the internet, but nothing turned up. Just Slovenian shops selling that same model at a similar price. [1] This seemed strange to me.

So then I screenshot one of those pages and search via image. Turns out that you can buy the exact same scooter on TaoBao for 952 RMB. (~114 EUR.) [2]

This is an absolutely ordinary situation. It was much the same when I was purchasing a bike for my kid -- 300 EUR here vs. 250 RMB there, for exactly the same bike. The purchasing power gap between USD|EUR and RMB is immense.

(I try not to talk about it too much, because it's the sort of thing that really upsets politicians and local vendors, and they'll want to find a way to make it more painful. It's a secret "life-hack" but for real.)

[1] - https://www.telekom.si/e-trgovina/sport-in-prosti-cas/skiroj...

[2] - https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?abbucket=5&id=869342176534
by lannisterstark | 2025-07-20 22:28:31+00:00
>people do not, empirically

Words and phrases have meaning. That's not what empirical evidence means.

Because there's only single manufacturer of plant based products, right? and it's not as if meat isn't heavily subsidized by the government otherwise. Pfft.

And you know why plant based milk is shelved next to milk? SO PEOPLE CAN FIND IT. People don't want to go to another specialized aisle just to find products.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-07-20 22:31:26+00:00
I assume you're referring to this[0]. I had to go searching.

I do buy it. Collective Shout, Mad Fucking Witches and others have all been trying to cancel media personalities and companies for years by appealing to the advertisers, especially effective in traditional media where they money is drying up. They're hardly a fly by night group, and it's not their first time appealing to payment processors.

0. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/400-vi...