MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troyvit | 2025-08-25 16:47:43+00:00
How well does it serve those constituents? Shutting off the water cut off 15% of Fort Garland's water revenue (while reallocating 1% of its water). That's a big dent in a budget that was probably directly keeping those tax payers' taxes lower and providing them valuable services.

The water board didn't have to put it up to an immediate, unplanned vote that day, but they were inexperienced in dealing with "hollering" and waffled under a little pressure.

Add to it that they executed the short-term interests of their constituents with such ... alacrity that it put people in physical risk.

So who came out ahead here? I don't disagree that all those folks living off-grid really aren't living off-grid, and reality checks are healthy, but even a 2 week warning would have served everybody's interests, served the same FAFO lesson and maybe kept the animosity down a little.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-25 16:47:45+00:00
What I really want, but don't have the technical skill to write unfortunately:), is a window manager or compositor that lets me set the size of a window and the viewport into that window independently. That is, formalize the approach that yes this window is rendering as if it was taking up half the screen but I only need to actually see this tiny slice of it, so just give me a window that shows that piece
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-08-25 16:47:48+00:00
Perhaps I misunderstood the original question, I thought the idea was to go full field at 95 kHz, which would be either very expensive or very crummy resolution (like 50x50 crummy), or some combination of the two. Not getting a full-field camera to work line a line scan camera, which should be possible but would require some rewiring or special software, you're probably better off just getting a regular line scan camera.

There is actually a way to get full field at very high frame rates and NOT ridiculous expensive, but its not sustained. I believe it involves some type of "sample and hold" with something like capacitor banks, so the digital read out can be done slowly.
by HankStallone | 2025-08-25 16:48:17+00:00
The bit that jumped out at me was "a 3-2 vote that wasn’t even on its meeting agenda." Seems like we're seeing an increasing number of cases where small-time officials who used to work largely unseen because no one went to meetings of things like the local water board, are getting resentful because now they're on video or citizens are starting to show up and ask questions, and they're not responding well to all the democratic involvement. So you get sneaky tricks like sneaking things into the agenda at the last minute, or outright lies like accusing citizens of threats when they were just asking questions.
by 0b110907 | 2025-08-25 16:48:18+00:00
A book with stories about different people that have settled in that area https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60206504-cheap-land-colo...

Overall it seems tough living around there, large parcels of land were divided and sold 30+ years ago via mail order and land values haven' tracked inflation in a lot of cases. A lot of people moving there for a second chance or fresh start.
by redactsure | 2025-08-25 16:48:55+00:00
I have to to host a gpu node per session so 15min is to reduce cost and allow more people to try it.

It's not traditional security testing. I want you to break the hiding algorithm which requires no security knowledge other than copy paste and typing.

The private key is in plain text on the instance you can copy and paste it or delete it anywhere you like.
by lokar | 2025-08-25 16:49:06+00:00
I don't have a negative attitude towards people who live off wells, or local surface water, or some place that sells it to tank back.

What I have a negative attitude towards is developing housing in an area of the arid western US without access to water. Water rights (the right to buy water) has controlled development here since before statehood. It's very simple: you don't develop without water rights, it's irresponsible and puts an unfair social burden on others.
by fogx | 2025-08-25 16:49:18+00:00
yea right. Privacy is a fundamental right in the EU (GDPR, Charter of Fundamental Rights), while the U.S. legal system offers almost no general privacy protection. On top of that, the NSA has a long history of warrantless surveillance and backdoors (Snowden, PRISM), with very limited oversight. In practice, it’s far costlier to push mass privacy infringements in Europe than in the U.S.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-25 16:49:39+00:00
>rapid rise in monster US pick-up trucks on Europe’s roads is set to accelerate after the EU-US trade pact

I hope the EU resists this, as a bicycle commuter those monster trucks causes mayhem here in the US. Maybe the EU or Countries can levy a special tax on them when registered. Something like 1000 USD per year. The good thing is gas is very expensive there compared to here, so maybe their sales will be very low.

But how would the fit on the roads I have seen there ? Will they be banned from driving on those roads ?
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-25 16:50:35+00:00
> Of course, this is meaningless, as you can't actually do any common operation, except maybe Close*, on all of them.

You can write and read on anything on Unix that "is a file". You can't open or close all of them.

Annoyingly, files come in 2 flavors, and you are supposed to optimize your reads and writes differently.
by kenm47 | 2025-08-25 16:51:19+00:00
i built maybe don't ai's mcp gateway——but to me the interesting technology isn't about the registry or flattening of downstream MCP servers (honestly that was a reasonably easy problem to solve) it's about the behavior of the AI agents that are connecting to these servers and making very bad decisions.

And yes to teh comments about people making a million of these... so very very many of them.
by michaelt | 2025-08-25 16:51:41+00:00
> A political establishment that builds a "total surveillance police state" is not going to allow itself to be displaced by "elections".

Kier Starmer may be a wildly unpopular leader, even within his own party, and may have declared inconvenient protest groups to be terrorists so they can be banned, and may support a porn ban and an encryption ban, and an expansion of police facial recognition, and may back jailing people for misinformation posted on twitter that lead to riots, and may happily play lapdog to the wildly unpopular Trump government for little benefit.

But he will not call off the next elections, or refuse to step down. He is nowhere near popular enough to succeed at that, even if he tried. He can't even get his own party to pass his government's flagship spending reductions.
by usefulcat | 2025-08-25 16:51:43+00:00
> apparently they are providing 45% of the towns tax revenue with their water purchases

"Revenue for the water sales to rural residents totaled $43,000 per year, about 15% of total revenue."

This means that 'total revenue' is about $287k. I would guess that's the revenue of the water system, not the town's entire tax base. Still a significant figure, but not 45% of the town's tax revenue.
by lokar | 2025-08-25 16:51:53+00:00
Yes, in a way. They live within the bounds of a water district, which itself has water rights. These districts limit use (or the growth in use) by passing rules on the use (limiting the watering of grass, for example), or (fairly often in some places) limiting new service hookups. They won't let you connect if they don't think they can secure the supply long term.
by tonoto | 2025-08-25 16:51:55+00:00
The cars sell because that's what the customer wants (as opposite of what EU wants customers to buy/rent/share). There's not a single ordinary brand new car sold in EU that I'm interested to buy if I could afford. Cars used to be fun until 2010-2015 something (when instruments were still tactile and less "automatical" features were obligatory) - I do not want to pay for e-call, automatic lane assistant and so on. Might pay for rear camera and parking sensors though.
by smaudet | 2025-08-25 16:52:04+00:00
> The latter is not the point

On the one hand, I get that and I get that you might not want to take criticism etc on a small utility that you create...

However, on the other hand, if this such a pervasive issue as to merit an official "correct" implementation, then I would think you would want more implementations working correctly, so that your brand behaves more consistently, correctly, across impls.
by wildzzz | 2025-08-25 16:52:05+00:00
It's pretty hard to overdose on water unless you're in some state like extreme dehydration where water consumption needs to be overseen by a doctor. Unless you're talking about drowning, then you're just being silly. As a healthy adult, drinking too much water until the point that you're injured is hard to do. You likely need a mental disorder to ignore simple signals like "my stomach is very full right now". Whereas OTC medications can be very easy to overdose. If you don't read the instructions and regularly take more than recommended, you can injure your liver or other organs. Pills are not very big so a handful of them can easily be in the LD50 area.

Oxygen toxicity is not a risk for most people. You either are a scuba diver regularly working at depths beyond what most do or are taking supplemental oxygen while under the care of a doctor. You are not at risk of oxygen toxicity reaching into your bathroom medicine cabinet.
by dang | 2025-08-25 16:52:20+00:00
> amazing that stuff like this still gets funded. This sounds like a 2 day project

Ai yai yai - you can't dismiss someone's work that way, especially not in launch threads. HN has additional rules when people are sharing their work, because it's particularly important not to be a jerk in such threads. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html as well as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd appreciate it. Thoughtful criticism is fine, of course, but supercilious dismissals are something we'd really like people to avoid here.
by tguvot | 2025-08-25 16:52:24+00:00
they spotted some kind of optics following troops. hamas teams frequently have cameramen to film hits or remote controlled cameras in general for surveillance. also sniper rifle reflections and camera optics reflections at large distance looks similiar.

edit: few days ago they identified somebody who put camera on external stairs of hospital near roof and followed troops. troops got attacked a few times. they asked for approval to take whoever it is down. approval was given but it was conditioned to use "light munition" to prevent too much damage. from some reason was used heavier munition. currently they investigate why orders weren't followed.
by maxwellg | 2025-08-25 16:52:38+00:00
I would also recommend the OAuth 2.1 IETF draft as a precursor to the BCP: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-...

Although it isn't a published RFC yet, it intends to replace several sometimes-conflicting previous RFCs + the BCP with a single document.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-25 16:52:57+00:00
Nothing is "guaranteed", so no. People usually congregate where resources exist, that's often why towns are where they are, near water for example. Where I live for example, freshwater comes from a pretty stable water source. Paying the municipality to operate and maintain that is as close to "guaranteed" as it gets probably.

Once the circumstances change, we'll have to adapt.
by uz3snolc3t6fnrq | 2025-08-25 16:53:08+00:00
you'd think that by a certain point youtube ads would've been regulated/managed just like ads on tv channels.. it made sense not do to it that way when the platform was in its infancy, but nowadays almost every news channel is on youtube and the platform has the kind of money to manage ad spaces the same way or similar to the way television used to. whether that's the right method of doing it.. there'll probably be some objections to going back to that way of dealing with ads but a new system is needed because allowing instant adsense deployment to the entirety of youtube without any checks to make sure there's no inappropriate material, copyright infringement or scams isn't working out that well
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-25 16:53:20+00:00
> It does if you go on and read the judgement ...

I think this is beside their point. Police are practically given qualified immunity by default; the case isn't strictly "lost" at this stage, it's lost if that decision is appealed and upheld until the victim is out of appeal options.

To your point, the summary judgement is still a clear injustice and it does practically give police the ability to stop speech whenever they want. But there's an element of random punishment if the person they stop has the resources to appeal the first decision. I'd be surprised if that appeal would be lost in this case given the main problem was the content of the expression; that's a pretty cut-and-dry 1a violation.

(It's a separate issue but there's another problem with the cases in which the officer loses qualified immunity in that the city they work in (tax payers) will pay the damages to shield them from consequences. I forget the legal mechanism but it pretty much always happens.)
by baq | 2025-08-25 16:53:28+00:00
Swap is not 'super slow extra memory' (well it is, but that's not useful!), it's a place to temporarily store contents of memory for things less important than what wants to be in fast memory right now. Idle apps can (and are) swapped out to have more file cache even on boxes with large RAM. Memory can also be fragmented and you'll have nominally lots of free space, but in reality allocations will fail; in this case, swap can be used to defragment memory instead of OOM killing stuff.

You always want some swap, even if it's 1GB for a 96GB machine.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-08-25 16:53:33+00:00
But that is astonishingly idealistic in the best case.

What happens is generational shifts over longer periods of time mean that draconian law or feature has more and more chances to be used by someone with bad intentions. It's the law of large numbers or murphy's law in full effect, it's not just 1 or 2 people.
by bityard | 2025-08-25 16:53:38+00:00
My favorite mouse is the Logitech Anywhere MX. It's highly comfortable despite being pretty small. The back/forward buttons on the side are indispensable for web browsing, file management, and switching weapons in first-person shooters. It takes two AA batteries which last for months and take seconds to swap out. The dongle is small and has good range. The scroll wheel switches between clicky and free-scrolling.

It's pretty much the perfect mouse, IMO, to the point that I built up a back stock by hoarding new and open box on eBay. But there are two main problems:

1) The the microswitches go bad after a couple years. It's possible to replace them, but it's tedious and you run a very real risk of damaging the PCB (as I have already done).

2) The dongle is USB Type-A only. Logitech actively refused to make a USB-C unifying receiver. I assume they wanted to shift to bluetooth but they still made unifying receiver devices for years and years after bluetooth was everywhere, so I dunno.

As far as newer iterations, the Anywhere MX 2S is somewhat tolerable, but it has a built-in battery which must be charged every couple of months, which is annoying. All of the newer Anywhere MX mice are even worse because they changed the basic functionality/features of the mouse with each revision. Oh, yes and they cost $90 (!) retail now.

So basically one of my side-projects, one of these days, is going to be to try building an open source Anywhere MX clone. Should be a fun yet challenging endeavour. I know there are a bunch of online communities making their own keyboards from scratch and at great expense, is there such a thing for mice?
by beedeebeedee | 2025-08-25 16:53:49+00:00
Hi, all causation can be doubted- that's a key aspect of skepticism, and in general, is important for philosophical development. In this case, it's clear that it is not a substantive objection to these papers or others. It is clear that you have set out this discussion with prior belief and are trying to reject that wealth disparity drives crime. You're not acting in the spirit of skepticism (and only are applying skepticism selectively here, because you think it sounds smart).

Read the papers. Apply your logic evenhandedly. Follow the leads and research on your own. It may be scary- you may discover things that force you to change your life (or you may learn something about yourself you dislike).
by mandevil | 2025-08-25 16:54:15+00:00
This has been the dream driving smart refrigerators for literally decades: if you know what food they have, you could sell them ingredient li so they could take their existing theta and digeut and make dish sha. Advertisers have wanted this for a long time. But no one has found a use case that is actually compelling to customers to get them to buy such a refrigerator. This is actually similar to the Alexa: Amazon invested in the project expecting there to be a lot of purchases through it, but mostly it gets used as a timer or to play music and not much purchase volume goes through it.

Maybe people will accept ubiquitous digital surveillance enough that they accept someone else knowing what they have in their pantry and refrigerator, but so far it isn't a thing.
by iamleppert | 2025-08-25 16:54:21+00:00
It's not as easy as "nudging, cajoling and creating incentives for major customers to diversify their supply chains and use Intel capacity". Changing out process tech isn't like changing the tires on your car for another brand. It requires, in many cases, a substantial redesign....and directly working with Intel.

Why would a company support two different chip designs, for the luxury of deployment on an inferior technology platform, coupled to a troubled company that has a history of not being able to keep up or consistently deliver the latest process tech? It's a substantial, long-term investment that has wide reaching implications on the performance of your own products you are building. Who pays for that and sets up their company for failure like that?

If you build on Intel, you are making a decision that exempts you from competing in the top of market for your products. Your designs will run hotter, consume more energy, have less yield, and lower clock. The design will be more complex and costly and have very little shared between other vendors. You'll need to maintain and inventory two different BOMs for a critical component, and you'll likely have subtle hardware differences or completely missing features that will require further software customization, creating even more complexity and headache to delivering a modern tech product. Hardware designs are hard enough as it is and companies don't have infinite resources or capacity. And don't count on Intel taking the lead from one of the others, giving your product a boost -- anticipate them further falling behind, or lagging behind at best.

Like always, the government doesn't understand any of this and the outcome of this latest missive is going to be completely predictable.
by opcode84 | 2025-08-25 16:54:35+00:00
A version of the 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer model was initially trained with 8-bit precision—FP8, which has been shown in previous studies to closely match 16-bit precision, and hence served as our baseline for comparison. We then successfully trained this same 12B model from scratch using NVFP4, demonstrating that this new low-precision format can support full pretraining at trillion-token scale. The NVFP4 run exhibited stable convergence without the training instabilities or divergence issues that typically plague ultra-low precision training.
by smaudet | 2025-08-25 16:54:52+00:00
That might explain why their software never took off to the same extent that the US's did, despite having been leaders in the hardware space.

You can of course "just program" the same way you can "just build" a car out of plywood and some electric motors, however the presence of an engineering mindset (and tools/resources) is what separates a fire hazard from a Ferrari.
by vedhsaka | 2025-08-25 16:54:56+00:00
(cofounder here) Honestly, we were hoping Gemini would nail this so we wouldn't have to build it ourselves, but here we are. The main difference is we're not bounded by Google's ecosystem - we're starting with Gmail but already working on Outlook and other integrations. Also, the goal is to build an executive assistant, not just a voice client for email and calendar.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-25 16:55:05+00:00
I've been using a mouse from https://pmm.gg, it weighs about half as much as the mouse I swapped the guts out of (28 grams vs 60 grams). Basically a couple sheets of printer paper.

I don't really care about the weight, what caught my attention was they offer ceramic? coated magnesium scrollwheels. My otherwise mild skin condition completely destroys the shitty grippy/gummy rubber they put on scrollwheels and sometimes the sides of the mice. They offer the same coating on the shells, which I really enjoy.

Yes, it's expensive but it still costs less than replacing mice over and over. I spend too much time holding this damn thing to settle for anything less. The quality is exceptional, assembly was easy, and the carbon fiber rod that snaps into place horizontally across the shape makes it more rigid than the stock mouse.
by njovin | 2025-08-25 16:55:10+00:00
The Water Knife is a fun fiction book about exactly this.

The synopsis is that in the near-future water in the west is SCARCE and there are dueling factions (NGOs, state governments, criminals) fighting legally and physically over water, including digging through old libraries and government offices for water right contracts that may be older than the known ones to usurp the standing owner's right.
by vel0city | 2025-08-25 16:55:58+00:00
I've been using a Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball for several years now. You might like it for a center trackball position. It also has a ring around the ball as a scroll wheel and four buttons which are easily programmable. A couple of AA batteries last me about a year on the 2.4GHz wireless, many months on Bluetooth. The ball comes out really easy so it's easy to take apart and clean. It has handled almost a decade of near daily use without any parts breaking.

https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...
by Hansenq | 2025-08-25 16:56:02+00:00
I wonder how much of these issues will be fixed by smarter models and scale. Building guardrails like "always redirect Chase requests to chase.com" seems like re-learning the bitter lesson. (the issue in the article could be fixed if they started with a Google search to buy an apple watch, vs asking them to buy an apple watch after already loading the fake website).

We caution elderly family members to ensure that the website they're visiting is the real chase.com. If they ask a younger family member to help them go to Chase, the younger family member has to use their own knowledge even today to determine whether or not a given website is the real chase.com. That seems like something LLMs can learn as they get smarter.