MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WalterBright | 2025-08-06 15:39:31+00:00
The WA exemption is $3m. (I also misremembered - the tax rate is 35% not 37%.) The rapacious greed of the state is astounding. I expect high net worth elderly will simply leave the state.

What fortunes enable people to do are great things. Like found rocket companies.

Keep in mind that the wealthy people under free markets created that wealth. It wasn't confiscated from others.
by alwa | 2025-08-06 15:39:58+00:00
The screen is the “how,” not the “what.” An item is designed to function with the parts it has. A unit designed without a screen is doing the job another way—say, with a row of LEDs or something. I care whether I can find out what the air quality is, I don’t care whether or not I do that using a screen. It seems to me like relying on a finicky screen was a poor design decision.

It also raises my eyebrows that they see “repairability [as] one of our core differentiators.” It’s cool to make that possible quietly for people who are into it, but would you want a “repairable” smoke detector? Or one that just works? If it broke, would you want them to send you one that’s not broken, or parts and a booklet of repair instructions?
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-06 15:40:58+00:00
I agree, this is full of the engineer's tendency to treat the law as a system whose rules are inviolable natural extensions of the universe and not things that can be enforced or ignored by humans on a case by case basis. Fun for thought experiments, but in the consensus reality the tendency is much less like designing a magic the gathering deck that carefully exploits the rules and allows you to amass tons of power in a way that your opponents have no choice but to concede to you and much more like just organizing more violence than the people trying to stop you from doing what you want to do.
by Levitz | 2025-08-06 15:41:13+00:00
>Vote for an opposition which promises mass deportations? Certainly, they will never go back on their word to create a surveillance state?!?

Not quite a fan of deportations, but I'd rather risk people going back on their word than the alternative here.

I wholeheartedly refuse to vote for anyone who publicly supports this. It is integral to democracy itself. If my only alternative is "The party of kicking kittens and opposing chatcontrol" I will 100% support them.
by Arainach | 2025-08-06 15:41:15+00:00
>freedom to use your phone however you want would necessarily compromise security and privacy for everyone.

For a large enough definition of "everyone", it would. "Everyone" has a Meta app installed. We've seen them pull evil tricks over and over to suck up data 24/7 - most recently running a local server on Android that their websites could talk to to bypass anonymization - and the moment a crack appears in the walled garden Meta will say "go install the FB/Instagram app from our app store with no privacy policy reviews" and a large enough definition of everybody will be much the worse for it.
by ajb | 2025-08-06 15:41:20+00:00
This is at least partly because the people opposing it don't know how to make a mainstream political case.

The case for is "catch child abusers".

People opposing it are talking in abstractions like privacy and right to use encryption. Which are important but you need to identify concrete harms that ordinary people identify with. You can't oppose a harm people can visualise and feel emotional about with an abstraction.

Opponents need to say "if this passes your kids might be taken away because of a bot looking at your photos" . "Even if you send a picture of your own kid to your own mum, you will have to think about whether it could be mistaken for child abuse by some minimum wage worker at G4S from a completely different culture, who has to process 20 pictures a minute"

The opposition mostly sounds butthurt that politicians are making tech decisions. And I say that as someone who genuinely thinks chat control is a terrible idea.
by geor9e | 2025-08-06 15:41:37+00:00
If this looks hard to install (you need to host a server, supabase, docker, lots of python dependancies) - instead, you could just install this to Edge https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/epubreader... to use it's built in Copilot sidebar to chat about the book. It would work identical to this project AFAICT, except the back end would be Microsoft.
by foobarchu | 2025-08-06 15:42:08+00:00
I think an even more important factor is that, in the case of speed queen, it has a great reputation within specific communities...but you can't really buy them in the stores that the average person visits for appliance purchases.

Whether or not you agree with it, joe next door is going to go to someplace like Best Buy or Menards for their new appliances, and they carry brands like Samsung and Maytag, and they are going to buy display models of the ones that draw attention to them.
by mproud | 2025-08-06 15:42:15+00:00
As a complete outsider looking at this, without additional context, I just have a hard time believing there aren’t more reasons, they’re just not willing to share them:

* I’m not passionate about it anymore

* I’m tired

* I want to repurpose my free time

* I’m not adding enough value compared to other options now available

In the end, it’s pointless to argue about why someone feels the way they do. If they are firm on their stance, don’t waste anybody’s time, no matter how irrational their argument is. Give up trying to be right.

Probably this guy should have just stopped engaging directly with some of the dialogue, but the fact that he is exploring the idea of trying to hand it off in some manner tells me he really does care about the project.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-06 15:42:18+00:00
About a quarter of that list is stuff I don't want a browser futzing with... volume control, autofocus, background sync (assuming this has huge battery implications), WebUSB, WebNotifications, and a few others.

That said, about half the list appears to be stuff I don't care about one way or the other. At least not without spending way more time researching those CSS elements than I care to invest.

And I'd be totally fine with an "Allow Alternate Browser Features: Y/N" setting or similar, as long as it defaulted to the current behavior (locked down Safari only).
by pornel | 2025-08-06 15:42:31+00:00
Google has been bombarding Firefox users with "Upgrade to Chrome" notices on their properties. Google kept having "oopses" that blocked browsers based on User-Agent strings, rather than capabilities.

Google also plays "fire and motion" with Web standards. They have a tendency to use non-standard(-yet) features on their websites. This gives them a perfect excuse to make other browsers look technically inferior (when the features are missing or the browser is blocked) or slow (when the features are implemented using inefficient polyfills). The unfairness is the one-sided choice of using whatever cutting-edge or Google-specific feature Chrome has, while they'd never do this in other direction. If Firefox implemented a new feature first, Google would never tell Chrome users that Chrome sucks and they need to upgrade to Firefox.
by mystraline | 2025-08-06 15:43:00+00:00
You should change the license to AGPL and 'custom, contact for payment details', and provide a link to this as why you did so.

Simply put, anything not a viral license like GPL allows parasitization by companies effectively living off FLOSS devs, with absolutely nothing to gain. Human rights under GPL were meant to apply to humans, not '3 lawyers in a trench coat' (corporations).

They can make their decisions (snubbing a dev of code they deem good enough for enterprise). And you can make comparable decisions, punishing them for the sheer hubris.

It also reaffirms that my decision of AGPL for everything is the right one. They can contact for custom terms.
by paulcole | 2025-08-06 15:43:21+00:00
> How did you keep learning and progressing professionally when your day job wasn't pushing you?

In my experience the people who keep learning and progressing professionally when their day job isn't pushing them are intrinsically motivated and simply do this on their own. They find things to learn and they find ways to progress professionally. They identify skills they lack and get them. They have ideas and follow them through.

I think you have to figure out whether you are one of those people right now or not. It's fine to not be (you can always change in the future) but at least you can stop worrying about it.
by neobrain | 2025-08-06 15:44:17+00:00
> He did in fact support the GOP since they will tackle "big-tech abuse" more

The context was that some GOP-affiliated politicians attended certain meetings for supporting tech regulation whereas democrats didn't. The article doesn't mention this original context but talks about the secondary tweets as if that had been Yen's primary message.

> I can only assume they're actively donating to the GOP and trying lobby. In other words, it's not even support for trump that's a problem, but willingness and desire to get into bed with political parties that favor them in the moment (shouldn't at all).

Do you have any other data point that supports these ideas, or are you extrapolating from this single specific event?
by Group_B | 2025-08-06 15:44:51+00:00
Right now AI is in the grow at all costs phase. So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years. All these companies will eventually have to turn a profit. Once that happens, they'll be forced to monetize in whatever way they can. Enterprise will obviously have higher subscriptions. But I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. What's scary is if some of these ads will even be presented as ads, or if they'll be disguised as normal responses from the agent. Fun times ahead! Can't wait!
by Barbing | 2025-08-06 15:45:35+00:00
Folks do like renaming group chats, typing indicators, perhaps scheduled send (though too new to say without asking around).

And it feels a little better, personally, sending an innocuous iMessage—even though I won't get in trouble if a stingray happens to pick up “gm” “Happy birthday!” “Kevin forgot the biscuits again!” over SMS.

Self-destructing Signal for the most personal messages for sure. But SMS just feels dirty. Too exposed even if I’d shout the same message contents in a public square.
by ahaucnx | 2025-08-06 15:45:36+00:00
Yes, I did not mention our outdoor monitor being featured because I don't see this as a success when I critique the whole methodology of the review.

As I mentioned above, we are working on a refresh of the indoor monitor. The display is also under discussion but so far with 10s of thousands of the indoor monitor sold, I am only aware of a single digit number of cases of a failed display.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-06 15:45:47+00:00
I wonder if the Cloud SFDC is the one that was compromised. It's a little telling Google didn't go into details about which arm of the octopus got attacked (or if they did, I didn't see that reporting yet... Unless Cloud is the implied victim because the description of the attack showed up on the Cloud blog).

I feel you about the ROI. In hindsight, it's a little funny to me that Salesforce is doing revenue numbers a little under half of Google Cloud; you'd think that would be large enough value to get Google interested in biting into that pie.
by shafyy | 2025-08-06 15:45:58+00:00
This probably differs from country to country though. I have worked and lived in Switzerland (I know, not EU), Germany and US, and it does not feel like people don't care here in EU. In fact, in terms of people going out on the streets and demonstrating, it takes a lot less in countries like Germany and France to so compared to the US, in my experience.

For example in Switzerland, there's the instrument of a "Volksinitiative". If you can collect 100k signatures, the government must hold a national election on this issue. And these are quite common and popular in Switzerland. In Germany, those unfortunately only exist on a state-level, not federal level, but are also common.

So, in my experience, people are very much involved in government here. This might be different in different EU countries of course. Or maybe you have a vastly different bubble you live in than I do.
by rollcat | 2025-08-06 15:46:22+00:00
Immediate mode UI toolkits are designed for pluggable backends, some even can discover the appropriate backend at runtime. If you're writing a game, you're expected to (and actually, you must) build your own integration.

ImGUI and Nuklear each have 20+ backends in their repos: <https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/backends> <https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/tree/master/dem...>
by Catbert59 | 2025-08-06 15:46:25+00:00
Better also add a SAW bandpass and a properly designed amplification (LNA) stage to this.

The RTL-SDRs are great - but heavily limited in their dynamics (8 Bit ADC). They get deaf quickly if you are located next to strong transmitters like FM/DAB/DVB-T/etc.

Aliexpress has cheap antennas that include all of this.
by Catbert59 | 2025-08-06 15:47:48+00:00
Also very interesting is the data which can be extracted from ADS-B.

There have been several attempts from meterologists to extract wind data from through the actual and target direction values.

Other sites use it to locate GPS-jammed areas because ADS-B can indicate when the reception fails (but still is able to transmit its position due to inertial fallback mechanisms).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-06 15:47:52+00:00
> Obesity - symptom. Usually the illness is a bad diet, lack of movement, or very rarely some serious health condition

The fact that it's treatable with a drug should have put this nonsense to bed.

I don't gain weight when I eat more food. That occurs regardless of whether I'm exercising heavily or literally not leaving bed and ordering food via delivery. My basal metabolism takes care of my weight management. The flux is mostly in muscle mass.

Similarly, I have friends who will precisely measure their diet and exercise, gain a pound or two, and then have to work for weeks to burn that off. If I had that metabolism, I'd be obese. I don't, so I'm not. They took Ozempic, reduced their weight, reduced their inflammation, and then stopped taking it. They rebounded a bit, but nowhere close to where they were originally, and are now reset to a healthy weight. (More significantly, their diet changed because of the obesity going away. They crave fruits and vegetables more than processed carbs.) The effect is similar in type to what I experienced when I got a shot of penicillin for strep.
by csense | 2025-08-06 15:48:33+00:00
> stablecoins are tokens on a blockchain just like bitcoin and can change hands almost as anonymously as paper currency.

That assertion is questionable for two reasons.

(1), all transactions on the blockchain are pseudonymous and public. If the government wants to investigate your bank transactions, at least in theory they have to get a court order and a warrant. If they want to investigate your blockchain dealings, they don't need anything -- not because the blockchain has some special "guardian of society, watcher of transactions" role for government agents, but because all blockchain transactions are visible to anyone with an Internet connection.

(2), it implicitly implies that people shouldn't be able to anonymously transact. There ought to be some third party -- a credit card company, the government -- approving transactions. If you don't see how this puts an enormous amount of trust in that third party, you're being intentionally myopic.

Is that trust deserved? Will it always be deserved, depending on who's in control of that third party?

What if the credit card company decides not to process your company's payments because your video game offends their sense of morality -- even though nobody disputes it's clearly legal freedom of speech? (This is actually happening right now.)

What if the government decides you aren't allowed to buy food if your citizenship papers aren't in order? (I estimate there's a nonzero chance the current administration will try to implement something like this.)

People should have freedom to financially transact, and blockchain is a great enabler of that freedom.
by gpnt | 2025-08-06 15:48:36+00:00
This is the routine I perfected for myself as a nomad after a lot of trial and error:

- In the morning, I work at the Airbnb/hotel. I start the day without worries about packing/unpacking or preparations: a solid three to four hours of work. (Requirements: get a room with a workstation and a good chair. Tables are usually easy to find, but if the chair isn’t good enough, buy one.)

- Natural stop to have lunch, usually with a longer walk.

- Start work again around 2 PM at some coffee shop and order a coffee. Another three hours of solid work.

- Natural stop to use the bathroom (always a problem as a solo nomad, but not anymore), stretch my legs, and head to a different coffee shop.

- Final batch of work. Order something light to eat. No more caffeine. Another three hours of solid work.

In the end, I can get between nine and ten hours of solid work per day. I spend around three hours in one place, so I didn’t notice any uncomfortable looks.

I also don’t rely on power outlets or local Wi-Fi never. The laptop needs to last the entire time, but it’s easy because it’s only in the afternoon (around six hours, not the whole day). For Wi-Fi, I always get a good mobile package with unlimited data if possible. This makes it easy to sit anywhere, really.

My setup is usually my laptop, an iPad as a second screen, earbuds, and a mobile phone. It works like a charm.
by paddy_m | 2025-08-06 15:48:37+00:00
I haven't misunderstood the problems that RMS talks about, I agree with his prescient analysis. I firmly disagree that RMS the person is the best person to lead a software producing organization that aims to deliver a free future.

A simple reductive example. Imagine a great software leader that leads an org that writes great code and generally achieves the org's goals, but once a week, they say something offensive that discourages 1/10th of new users. A better leader would be someone who does all of the same things, except for the offensive comments.

I am saying that RMS makes offensive distracting comments, and regularly makes project manager choices that slow the adoption of free software. If you criticize him, people come back to "but he's right philosophically" which he is, and that misses the point. He has wrapped the FSF into an ego play for himself where he is in control or at least an important roadblock to software progress. If RMS cared as much about software freedom (as opposed to his ego) as he says, he would work to allow better leaders to develop and have power in the FSF org.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 15:48:46+00:00
Now, maybe things are very different at the top but my understanding is that museums don't pay to have things restored. It's a combination of volunteers and businesses donating labor/facilities/materials and the restoration gets performed over time and is itself a "profit" creating exhibit before the end product goes on display as a normal exhibit. The $80mil would just need to be the facility and the hauling.
by HWR_14 | 2025-08-06 15:49:16+00:00
> How is it that the answer to an American megacorp trying to hoover all of your personal data is to try to get another American megacorp to add universal barricades to your device?

Because only Apple has the power to stop Chrome from being the only browser (like IE) or to stop Meta from insisting you give up all privacy. A government may be able to do it within their own borders for a period of time, but Meta, Google and Apple are all larger and more powerful than the majority of countries out there.
by 15155 | 2025-08-06 15:49:25+00:00
> As such, making an HDL look like a programming language doesn't increase my expressiveness or productivity all that much

Ok, now try Chisel or SpinalHDL - which lean on a high-powered type system/compiler - and come back to me.

SystemVerilog/VHDL do not hold a candle to the level of productivity or correctness you can achieve in these Scala-based HDL tools.
by Danmctree | 2025-08-06 15:49:34+00:00
The frustrating thing is that the math and AI support in the python ecosystem is arguably the best. These happen to also be topics where performance is critical and where you want things to be tight.

c++ has great support too but often isn't usable in communities involving researchers and juniors because it's too hard for them. Startup costs are also much higher.

Ans so you're often stuck with python.

We desperately need good math/AI support in faster languages than python but which are easier than c++. c#? Java?
by const_cast | 2025-08-06 15:50:13+00:00
This is just not true, and as I've stated, it's because you've always been skinny.

There's no magic sauce in ozempic that makes you lose more buccal fat than other weight loss methods. That's just not real, it doesn't exist.

When you go from lots of buccal fat to no buccal fat, you will look gaunt in comparison. You've always had low fat so there's no frame of reference, so nobody calls you gaunt.

But, if you gained say 30 pounds, you would look much less gaunt than you currently do.

Either that or you're not as slim as you think you are. At 5'9 a normal BMI sits at 135 pounds for a man - you need to get very thin to have thin cheeks. Its possible you're slim, but not slim enough to have slim cheeks.

Also you lose buccal fat as you age. But ozempic does not age you.

And then of course fat distribution varies person to person. You might be slim but have abnormally large amounts of buccal fat. That can happen, but it doesn't mean that if you got thin via ozempic you'd lose the buccal fat. Again, there's no mechanism for that.

If you still don't believe me, just compare someone thin via ozempic versus someone naturally thin at the exact same weight and height and gender. Notice the buccal fat - the naturally thin person doesn't have more. It just feels that way, because you've never seen them with more buccal fat so the amount they have seems "right". Whereas, for the ozempic person, it seems less.
by starky | 2025-08-06 15:50:25+00:00
The review clearly states that the screen failed after a few months. How exactly do you expect them to QC an issue like that? If the part arrives at your factory in full working order, you don't typically spend much time trying to make it fail unless you discover that there is a latent issue that affects a large enough proportion of those parts where the cost of screening becomes worth it.

Every volume product has failures and a single datapoint is not enough to say anything about a product's quality (good or bad). At the same time, a failure during a review is absolutely something that should be mentioned, as well as given an opportunity to test the company's RMA process. At the very least a failure like that should cause someone to look into how many other's online have similar issues.
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-06 15:50:49+00:00
I loved Speedhunters and Hoonigan when they were in their prime. Both brands just oozed "cool". Between the tragic death of Ken Block, and the brand collapse of both of those companies I feel like we are in the dark ages of car culture now.

But I still have hope and I think we will one day have a resurgence of car culture like it was.