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by numpad0 | 2025-08-28 05:05:38+00:00
Context: there are chopstick shaped, ultra cheap, Chinese battery tab welders as well as no-brand battery tab value-packs to use with, available online.

One tabs each are placed onto each ends of cells, held down with the sticks, and instantly welded upon push of a button. This is much safer than heating up the whole battery by attempting to solder wires directly onto the battery cells(which are made of unsolderable materials anyway). The tabs limit heat conduction into the battery and it is considered safe to solder onto them.

If you're going to build your own battery pack no matter whatever whoever says or do, this types of cigarettes contain significantly less amounts of nicotine and tar components than others.
by belZaah | 2025-08-28 05:06:02+00:00
Former CTO of a country here. Anything GDS did filled me with deep envy: it was beautiful and made so much sense and I had none of it at my disposal. Then Brexit. I was there in GDS offices a few weeks after the vote and the organization was being dismantled under my very eyes. See, the trick with such endeavors is not what you can drive centrally, it’s what you can make others implement. Reporting to the Man is a good way of creating pressure, but as the current examples in both UK and US show, you can’t sustain that pressure for, say 30 years. Also, centralization neither scales very well nor is democratic as it centralizes control and removes responsibility from the service owners. So how do you have something placed fairly low in the government working horizontally effect meaningful change in other organizations? Have tried it in a few countries, have a few answers and many questions, AMA.
by sdovan1 | 2025-08-28 05:06:08+00:00
I never really used browser bookmarks until I discovered Firefox's bookmark keyword feature [1]. It basically eliminates the search step. For example, I set "pr" to the GitHub pull request page. Just press Alt + D to focus the address bar, type the keyword, and hit Enter.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how...
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-28 05:06:17+00:00
> Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothing like a modern motherboard. The two CPUs take 64 watts each.

I am not involved in power VRM for modern moderboards. But I can imagine they are some some smart stuff like compensating for transport losses by increasing the voltage somewhat at the VRM so the designed voltage still outputs at the CPU. Of course this will cause some heating in the motherboard but it's probably easily controlled.

In the day of the alpha that kind of thing would have been science fiction so they had no alternative but to minimise losses. You can't use a static overvoltage because then when the load drops the voltage coming out will be too high (transport loss depends on current).

Also, in those days copper cost a fraction of what it costs now so with any problem just doing 'moah copper' was an easy solution. Especially on server hardware like the Alpha with big markup.

And server hardware is always overengineered of course. Precisely to prevent long-term load problems like this.
by CompuHacker | 2025-08-28 05:06:35+00:00
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F/A-18E/F Aircraft Crash Rescue; Fire Fighting Information; January 2006
by _heimdall | 2025-08-28 05:06:44+00:00
Well I'm in that 5%, and I own older cars mainly so I can still work on them myself.

My argument was that manufacturers should have to be clear up front with what they're selling. If 95% of the population doesn't care, and that means the market for maintainable cars isn't viable, why should I impose my will on everyone else? I'd like to buy a new car and be able to work on it but no company should be obligated to serve that desire.
by timr | 2025-08-28 05:06:48+00:00
> Ah so they're nitpicks when I call out your misrepresentations, but somehow they're still material to your overall point?

They're nitpicks. Let's say I grant you that Mpox and Dengue are not really on the recommended AAP schedule, since they have asterisks. What about the other 7 differences? What about the Covid vaccine? BCG? Hep A? Flu?

> Who are you even talking to? You've invented a strawman to respond to.

It's the topic at the root of the thread. Presented these two options as better alternatives to the CDC.

> In fact, the CDC doesn't even have an updated vaccine schedule. If you go to their current site, guess which vaccines are included?

OK. So you're saying that nothing has actually changed? So what is the problem with the CDC? What's your applicable criticism of "MAHA"? Again, I refer you to the top of the thread:

> The physicians in my life - including my spouse - have essentially all abandoned the CDC and FDA as a source of decision-making on vaccines and pharmaceuticals, except for what is required by law. Other sources of guidance, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule[0] and the WHO recommendations[1] are gaining prominence instead.

> If you are an opponent of vaccines or a supporter of "MAHA", who is happy with what the CDC/FDA is doing, you might want to consider that the way they're doing it has utterly failed to convince the vast majority of people who are responsible for actually executing their guidance, and therefore will have limited impact.
by kenkunz | 2025-08-28 05:06:50+00:00
Meetup.com is just BEGGING to be replaced. The UI looks like Classmates.com had a baby with a Windows 95 dialog box. The interstitial ads are as annoying and useless as fake recruiter texts. Organizer pricing has skyrocketed like eggs in 2024, and now they're paywalling BASIC features for attendees (like seeing who's actually coming). Classic PE "we hate our customers" BS.

Cactoide looks great for one-off events - nice work! But it doesn't replace Meetup for recurring groups that need subscriptions, notifications, member management, etc.

The best alternative I've found so far is https://guild.host. Just launched Svelte Chicago on it (shameless plug - come join us!) and our first event yesterday went smoothly. Guild has some rough edges but a smart founder with the right priorities.

What's still missing, as TheAdamist mentioned, is discoverability. I think we need to separate meetup discovery from event management - an event-platform-agnostic registry/search that works across Guild, Eventbrite, Facebook Events, whatever. Hmm... might have just found our next Svelte meetup hackathon project.
by saithound | 2025-08-28 05:07:08+00:00
The same way it learned to act like a personal assistant, even though very few humans are personal assistants.

The LLM is first trained as an extreneley large Markov model predicting text scraped from the entire Internet. Ideally, a well trained such Markov model would use em dashes approximately as frequently as they appear in real texts.

But that model is not the LLM you actually interact with. The LLM you interact with is trained by somethig called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, which involves people reading, rating and editing its responses, biasing the outputs and giving the model a "persona".

That persona is the actual LLM you interact with. Since em dash usage was rated highly by the people providing the feedback, the persona learned to use it much more frequently.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-28 05:09:04+00:00
> LLMs are very useful tools for software development

That's an opinion many disagree with. As a matter of fact, the only limited study up to date showed that LLMs usage decrease productivity for experienced developers by roughly 19%. Let's reserve opinions and link studies.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

My anecdotal experience, for example, is that LLMs are such a negative drain on both time and quality that one has to be really early in their career to benefit from their usage.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-28 05:09:13+00:00
Having studied history a bit more than most people, I have a gut reaction to the kind of "lawlessness escalation vortex" where lawlessness by one group is used to excuse lawlessness of an opposing group. I've seen how this ends in history, and it's not good. Essentially, the strongest side wins, takes all of the power, and becomes totalitarian, because who wants to re-institute laws once you're king? Oh, it might be Trump. Or it might be some Bernie Sanders bro. Does it matter in the end, if the laws are gone and we all live as loyal subjects of the crown? But sure, downvote me, shoot the messenger. This is a lesson, I fear, we must learn at the point of the despot's guards spears every 200 or so years, so perhaps there's no avoiding it. But someday, you'll say "damn you phendrenad2, why couldn't you be more convincing, you tried to warn me but not hard enough!"
by orionblastar | 2025-08-28 05:09:50+00:00
Have to use real intelligence to solve this, AI can write the program, but it doesn't always work. I developed a thing with my mind called Super Debugging, where I can look at someone else's code and find the flaws in it without documentation. All I need to do is learn the language and start super debugging.

If I can improve and debug code written by bachelor's of Computer Science majors, I should be able to handle AI/ML/VIBE coding.
by ada1981 | 2025-08-28 05:10:15+00:00
Holographic breathwork was developed as a result of psychedelic prohibition by Stan Grof. He was having great luck with LSD for alcoholism and then prohibition stopped that research. Breathwork was developed as a way to induce the same states of conciousness and it’s proved to be effective.

Basic idea is addictions are largely driven by unresolved trauma and breathwork / transpersonal practice is a way to allow the nervous system to release and shift into a healthier state where the desires to numb with substances diminishes.
by kube-system | 2025-08-28 05:11:00+00:00
DMARC/SPF/DKIM are not something that users can take advantage of by reading their email headers, because it is nonsensical to end users.

You can take advantage of it because you're an expert. Just because email vomits out more information that are useful for experts doesn't mean it is better as a real world system for normal people who use it.
by mtillman | 2025-08-28 05:11:32+00:00
I still attend a lot of minor league games. I sit close and watch every pitch, a habit I developed growing up in a family full of minor and even major league umps. It’s a lovely way to spend a summer evening. Sadly minor league numbers are way down. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/milb-attendance-numb...

As the OP article mentions it’s a great pastime for all walks of life. Minor league games aren’t even about winning most of the time as you get to watch coaches prepare players for the show instead of worrying too much about the final score. I love baseball and especially my local minor league team.
by vel0city | 2025-08-28 05:11:44+00:00
I wasn't trying to suggest California was alone with such laws. Only pointing out they do indeed have internet laws that cross state boundaries, far from the "free state" suggested by the parent comment. Lots of states have such laws, and I generally do agree such things are good.

And yes, in this particular circumstance for this specific law as currently written a private blog doing it's own normal things probably wouldn't infringe or be subject to these rules.

But what about a Utah focused social media site that does have $25M in revenue? It's not trying to court California users. Why should they have to be liable to laws in a state they never intended to do business in? It's these Californians leaving California to interact with an org across state lines. Whatever happened to state sovereignty? Should an Oklahoman be required to buy only 3.2% beer in Texas as well or have some Texas beer and wine shop face the wrath of Oklahoma courts for serving an Okie some real beer?

Where did that web transaction actually happen? On the client or on the server? Where did the data actually get stored and processed?

IMO we're past the time of patchwork laws. The social experiment of figuring out what makes some sense is largely over at least for the basics. It's time for real federal privacy laws to make a real, enforceable nationwide policy.
by II2II | 2025-08-28 05:12:27+00:00
For some people, they have no need for bookmarks. For other people, bookmarks may be useful but the implementation is not.

Reading the author's description made me realize how unbookmark-like bookmarks actually are. The current implementations are somewhat akin to creating a list of books that you like at the library. It's not so much a pointer to the information you found useful, as it is a list of books you found useful. You still have to do some digging when you go back for the book. If the book is lost, you end up having a reference to something that you cannot obtain. And if you just add books to the end of your list, you still end up having to search through the list. The only way around that is to spend time organizing your list. It's no wonder why bookmarks are useless to so many people.

The author doesn't really solve the problem with bookmarks, except for one. The last one. By sticking a bookmarks file in a project directory, at least you're only searching through a list of bookmarks relevant to the project. If you are no longer interested in the project and delete it, you're also getting rid of bookmarks that you (hopefully) no longer need. It also addresses the portability of bookmarks. As far as I can tell, the only way to move bookmarks between any of the major browsers involves the use of special software or network services. Look at moving bookmarks from one Firefox installation to another: you either use online sync, export to HTML to import from HTML, or import the database (which replaces your current bookmarks with the ones being imported).
by manmademagic | 2025-08-28 05:12:52+00:00
It's an interesting dilemma, since if I know that an email was written mostly with AI, it feels to me like the author didn't put effort in, and thus I won't put much effort into reading the email.

I had a conversation with my manager about the implications of everyone using AI to write/summarise everything. The end result will most likely be staff getting Copilot to generate a report, then their manager uses Copilot to summarise the report and generate a new report for their manager, ad inifinitum.

Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified, and nobody gains anything.
by mannyv | 2025-08-28 05:13:02+00:00
When the device is doing nothing it should use no power. The goal is to get to 'doing nothing' as fast as possible.

That's a legacy of iPhone. And that's a fundamental philosophical difference between Apple and everyone else.

I suspect that's why Apple's caches are structured the way they are: the goal is to stop working. More instruction cache means more work, which leads to less work.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-28 05:13:58+00:00
> If you don't suck at management, your team inevitably grows

Inevitably because why?

> those who suck at management

If higher management can figure out not to put more people under them, why can't it figure out to remove the existing people under them?

> those managing dead-end projects on dead-end teams

If "dead-end" just means "not growing" then that sounds fine. When a company does thousands of things only a small fraction of them need to be growing.

> those who desperately cling on to the engineering past and actively refuse to take on more people

"Desperately cling" is a wild way to refer to someone sticking with a job they like. And if they're a TLM it's not the past, it's the present. Wanting to keep your present job is very normal.

And is the end goal to have zero TLMs in this expanded team? If you're going to pick new TLMs to go under the one you push into higher management, what's bad about leaving them in place and putting someone else above them?
by emporas | 2025-08-28 05:15:09+00:00
I have done this since forever. Put music on and doing breathwork. Some of the most imaginative ideas I have ever had, start to be generated by themselves 15 minutes in the breathwork.

I use a technique no else uses, and at the start I was trying to emulate fighters being hit in the stomach. It had occured to me that fighters have generally more triangular upper bodies than other types of athletes. It turns out, that organs in the belly aggregate fat around them, and being hit in the stomach discombobulates the fat particles. I found a more intelligent way to emulate that, and less dangerous.

Altered state of consciousness start after 10-15 minutes of breathwork, when I put saliva on my scalp to clean the testosterone from the hair. That one was inspired by cats. The male scalp excretes lots of testosterone which cannot be removed with just shampoo. This also fixes androgenetic alopecia (it does not get reversed, but stops happening). I get seriously dizzy when I do that, that's why I have given up on all mind altering substances including alcohol. Getting dizzy from exercise is so much better.

There are 2-3 more exercises I do complementary to that. The breath work also is not breath work, it is something similar.
by mickelsen | 2025-08-28 05:15:20+00:00
I like words that weren't part of my speech, which I now use quite often, because of the context in which they were introduced to me by ChatGPT, they felt like a natural addition. Like intention, as in living with intention; before I'd rather use having a purpose or direction, but this captured something else, mind that english isn't my native language.

I hated the 'vibing' thing, 4o for some time started to use it on any given text, about the time vibe coding and the zoomer revival of the word was a thing last year.

Another one that I've seen pop up, and on a proofread comment of mine right here I let it slip (sorry, will keep doing it when I feel lazy) was that thing where you lead with a question "...the result? this happened".

I try to calibrate on NOT introducing them even if I like the expression, if I see it repeated too often throughout my chats or elsewhere in social media (X usually, esp. with foreign elonbux grinders), because then it feels cringe.
by nine_zeros | 2025-08-28 05:16:06+00:00
> And I can’t get a booster because these ignorant imbeciles decided for me, based on non-scientific vibes?

Remember how republicans were so angry at the government politely requesting people to get vaccinated in the heat of 2020 and 2021?

Well, now that the tables have turned, polite requests turn into big government mandates.
by rendaw | 2025-08-28 05:16:10+00:00
Not all static type systems are equally expressive/safe/consistent - Java falls back to `Object` and runtime casts frequently, Go doesn't have enums, and C++ variants come with significant footguns and ergonomics issues since they were hacked on and aren't first class language features (i.e. safe access requires using `try/except` which is exclusive with other control structures).
Ask HN: Do cloud provided LLMs get "dumber" during business hours
by dav43 | 2025-08-28 05:17:26+00:00
I have heard this mentioned, online and in casual conversation

** During business hours these endpoints may get so highly utilised that accuracy and quality decline (ignore latency) (effective available token capacity is reduced etc?**

Has anyone run studies/experiments to show (true or false) - across a large dataset - that the performance of these endpoints during peak usage hours vs, low usage hours changes or does not change (I assume some statistical significance test required).

I don't have the knowledge to answer this question or understand if it's a valid hypothesis. Anyone got resources on this? I could only find tangential mentions in these papers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/html/2507.18007v1 "These challenges contribute to bottlenecks during peak workloads, ultimately affecting inference service quality, scalability, and responsiveness, which requires accurate resource profiling for LLM inference task."

[1] Asking Gemini - https://share.google/aimode/bWb5w9dpf2ZeggqSj
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-28 05:17:38+00:00
What differences do they lead to? I just find union types more flexible, with the perceived downside of losing some semantics on success/error results (but I don't think it's a problem personally). But I wouldn't say I'm super knowledgeable about Rust outside of writing some toy programs.

You could create your own Result<T, Error> type in TS but people don't really do that outside of ecosystems like Effect because there isn't usually a reason to.
by Anon1096 | 2025-08-28 05:18:19+00:00
> Does the change mean the most competent solution architect who has successfully designed and implemented many complex systems from scratch is capped in salary package because they're not doing the important job of demanding those around them fill out TPS reports all day?

In house solutions architects are not really a thing at FAANG. Designing and implementing systems is what mid+ level SWEs are expected to do. The solutions architects I have seen were all in the sales org helping external customers better use the cloud. My experience isn't exhaustive of course.
by waste_monk | 2025-08-28 05:19:02+00:00
My university offered (not sure if it still exists) a software engineer degree that was part of the school of engineering, had a mix of courses from the school of engineering and school of math and IT, and at the end of it you would be eligible to take the local equivalent of the PE exam and become a Real Engineer (I think technically you would be in the field of mechatronics).

IMO this should be the standard - software engineer should be a protected title, and everyone else would be titled some flavour of software developer or similar.
by random3 | 2025-08-28 05:19:05+00:00
Has the stability of CDC changed between this and the rest of presidencies, across the political spectrum?

Your angle reminds of a recent post -

> "John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."— Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong