MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by homebrewer | 2025-08-25 23:14:08+00:00
You wouldn't get very far without WeChat and AliPay in China. Last time a good friend of mine was there, many merchants simply refused to accept cash. The few that did had made it known how much they were inconvenienced by doing that.

Same for basically every interaction with locals, for accessing government services, or even just using the public transportation.

It's pretty similar for locals AFAIK.

And before anyone replies that he didn't have to travel there — no, he did, unless he was willing to look for another job (which are very sparse here, you hold on to a good job for dear life).
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-25 23:14:14+00:00
15 (just 15, not k) is par for a corporate dev on a good team. 100-300 is what you might expect from a "10x engineer" or independent dev consistently in the flow state.

1k lines is too much to even review in a day and I would assume it's useless.

Typical disclaimers "lines != Statements != Productivity" apply. Also I'm not counting things like unit tests and documentation.
by jeffbee | 2025-08-25 23:14:25+00:00
No, I do not remember that. I'm pretty sure you just made it up. Air filtering is obviously long-studied, and if you are alluding to COVID-era events I seem to recall that one of the first large-scale responses that happened in my region was the subway operator installed up-rated HEPA+UV air cleaners on every car.

If you want to sustain this claim, show us the process by which someone's career was truncated by researching air filtration.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-25 23:15:04+00:00
Eh, I like some of Neal's books a lot, particularly Diamond Age is likely in any top ten I'd come up with. But this claim is basically only true in the trivial sense that wouldn't have any arbitrary creative work if its author hadn't created it.

So in that sense it's the exact same as Facebook. Without Neal somebody else would invented "post Cyberpunk" and without Mark somebody else would have invented whatever Facebook is - social media for your grandparents maybe?

Neal is "unique" but we're all unique, it's the least unique thing about us. He struggles to write satisfying endings, he leans too heavily on the rape-as-character-development trope, his novels have become flabby as his fame grew and presumably he was able to resist editorial demands more, he doesn't know as much about technology as he thinks he does... Like I said, "Diamond Age" would probably make my top ten, but that's not because it's flawless by any means.
by sprobertson | 2025-08-25 23:15:21+00:00
Yeah good call, I missed that. I don't think there's a correct answer here, but it could be another step of the read or write. Either it would do another lookup of "my daughter" -> Name on read, or do a lookup on write if you already have a "my daughter is Name" memory. Whatever's less expensive in the long run. The graph memory someone else mentioned also seems like a good option there.
by stefanos82 | 2025-08-25 23:15:41+00:00
Bram died 2 years ago (already(!!!), time flies!), so it's not so recently...

Also the community does an incredible job and it's quite active with further development and improvements, especially in improving the Vim9 script engine among many things they work on.

If you don't believe me, just see for yourself https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/
by jld | 2025-08-25 23:16:01+00:00
Double blind studies are helpful when we do not understand they underlying dynamics of a complicated system (like a body) but we want to learn what effect a change has on that system (like a medicine).

If we know pathogens cause disease, and we know filtering removes pathogens from the air (and we can test and verify that) we don't need to run a double blind study to verify they work.

It's the same reason you don't need to run a double blind study on whether seat belts work. We understand the cause and effect of car ejections and windshield/steering wheel impacts on human bodies. Seat belts are designed to mitigate these incidents and are tested and validated in the lab using formal science and engineering.
by Dragon0 | 2025-08-25 23:16:06+00:00
DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR ID/INFO TO GOOGLE. I put my game on their app store some years ago, and they doxxed me right on the app store. Google posted my name and home address right on the game page. Not great when I was already receiving death threats! Later on, had a rando show up at 3AM one night and had to call the cops out. I moved after that. Google is absolutely not to be trusted to keep this data confidential. If Google demands I do anything with them, I'll just tell my fans to install lineageos or whatever instead -- no way in hell I'm having ANYTHING to do with google ever again. GFY google!
by HocusLocus | 2025-08-25 23:16:35+00:00
Breathing and sleeping in negative ionized air for 40 years. Just high voltage potential -7 to -10kVDC and spread carbon hairs (better than metal spikes) to launch it.

Walls and floors always have positive charge conducted from the ground outside relative to the air, no sparks means ozone in too small concentrations to worry about. Dust, smoke, bacteria and viruses stick to walls not the inside of lungs and the air is clean and odorless. You can shine a very bright flashlight through it in a dark room and see absolutely no beam. Every so often you sponge off the walls with strong cleaning solution. Latex paint stains easily near the device which is a subtle way of reminding you how germy it really would have been. Use plastic over walls near the device to save yourself some color matching and painting.

Over all these years, the most annoying thing has been other people trying to sell me HEPA filter solutions with screaming fans that need accessory replacement often. They insist I'm killing myself with ozone as a fear tactic. Few people sell just ionizers or sabotage the concept by selling weak/ineffective ones... because HEPA is big money.

Ionizers use tiny energy and no recurring supplies. Just make sure your electronics are grounded well.
by cramsession | 2025-08-25 23:16:36+00:00
There has to be a payoff though. BitTorrent is actually pretty hard to get working correctly, track down the torrent files... people do it because it's the only way to get some content and a way to get content you'd otherwise have to pay for. With social media, there's not much reward and most people's friends already post for free on other networks. Not saying it's not worthwhile, but it's hard to extract this lesson from BitTorrent.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-25 23:18:04+00:00
> My feeling is that, provided a sufficiently long context window, an LLM will be able to go through the second kind project very easily. It will also be very good at showing that the first kind of project is not so new after all, destroying all people who can't find really new ideas.

My perspective is that value is had in understanding what and why a system needs to do what it does in order to satisfy a defined need, be it algorithmic and/or business. If the need is a use-case where a web form is used, an LLM can no more replace the knowledge of why it is there than someone fulfilling a "fiver contract" could.

Both might be able to complete a specific deliverable, but neither have the ability to provide value to an organization beyond the assets they produce.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-25 23:18:39+00:00
do we know they didn't download the DB? Maybe the new traffic is the LLM reading the site? (not the training)

I don't know that LLMs read sites. I only know when I use one it tells me it's checking site X, Y, Z, thinking about the results, checking sites A, B, C etc.... I assumed it was actually reading the site on my behalf and not just referring to its internal training knowledge.

Like how people are training LLMs, and how often does each one scrap? From the outside, it feels like the big ones (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc..) scrape only a few times a year at most.
by shazbotter | 2025-08-25 23:18:41+00:00
I'm old (50s), I don't want a strong any of those. I especially, however, don't want a strong executive because I don't think decision making should be strongly centralized.

I'm a syndicalist anarchist, who believes communities should be primarily bottoms up driven, democratic, and cooperative. I argue we don't need any of those branches to be strong.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-25 23:18:43+00:00
I think most people feel it’s ridiculous that someone can get on a flight with a tourist visa, lie to the immmigration officer, go to an unlicensed “hospital” to have a baby that will become a US citizen.

On the other hand, if you were born here and went to school here without leaving until you’re like 9 or 10 or some agreed upon logical age, it doesn’t make sense to deport you back to some country where you don’t understand the language or culture.

There’s gotta be a middle ground here. I think most people can accept the ridiculousness of either extreme.
by uz3snolc3t6fnrq | 2025-08-25 23:18:47+00:00
ironically, making linux users consider sailing the high seas for actual 4k rips instead of actually paying for the service just to get blocky low bitrate 720p content. so this piracy prevention not only creates more potential pirates, but makes paying customers' lives harder while not affecting the aforementioned pirates, who can now watch it at 4k on any device or program they wish
by akst | 2025-08-25 23:19:06+00:00
Ultimately it’s them that has market power.

To meaningfully challenge it, developers need to agree to withheld supply like a cartel (illegal?) or union.

I think it’s probably close to the union scenario in an industry with a single employer, as there is that one too many relationship (all developers vs Google). Whereas a cartel is a few suppliers conspiring against all consumers.

I’m not sure developers would go to those lengths, and I’m not sure it would work either as the benefit is too high from defecting from such a coalition.
by nodesocket | 2025-08-25 23:19:19+00:00
It is really good though. Network has come a long way, and really is powerful, intuitive, and can support most advanced use cases. Protect is awesome, no cloud storage tomfoolery. AI features like license plate and facial recognition, and partner it with access and you can do some awesome integrations such as automatically open up your front gate, door, etc based on your car or face.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-25 23:19:24+00:00
Got a source? I don't remember anyone objecting to studying HEPA filters' impact on airborne viruses. In fact, I've found studies on that exact topic from that time period. The CDC was saying that HEPA combined with masks was more effective than masking alone back in 2021 (but masking alone was better than HEPA alone)

> Without the HEPA air cleaners, universal masking reduced the combined mean aerosol concentration by 72%. The combination of the two HEPA air cleaners and universal masking reduced overall exposure by up to 90%. The HEPA air cleaners were most effective when they were close to the aerosol source

2022: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35947419/ 2022: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34098798/ 2021: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7027e1.htm
by vict7 | 2025-08-25 23:19:29+00:00
That’s my bad for not clarifying I am talking solely about the laptop form factor here. It’s a given that laptops are not comparable in performance to desktops. In terms of laptop hardware, Apple Silicon performs quite well

Nice assumptions though.

It’s not just my opinion that Apple silicon is pretty performant and efficient for the form factor; you can look up the stats yourself if you cared to. Yet, it seems you may be one of those people that is hostile towards Apple for less well-founded reasons. It’s not a product for everyone, and that’s ok.
by aborsy | 2025-08-25 23:20:09+00:00
Thanks!

AOOSTAR 2-bay AMD R7 5825U mini PC seems to check the boxes, for an entry-level storage + virtualization miniPC host. The CPU is similar to AMD R7 5800H in a Beelink SER5 Pro miniPC which runs proxmox very well.

It has a cpu with 8C/16T, up to 4.5GHz, and supports max 2x32gb DDR4 3200Mhz RAM, 2x4T PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMes and 2x2.5G NICs.
by shekhar101 | 2025-08-25 23:20:41+00:00
I was reading Xiaomi YU7 marketing page[0] yesterday and the NVIDIA AGX Thor stood out (says: NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor). I was wondering what it was and this showed up! Looks like it is (or a Drive variant of it) is already being used in newer cars for self-drive and such. [0] https://www.mi.com/global/discover/article?id=5174
by mothballed | 2025-08-25 23:21:29+00:00
The depths are 600-700ft.

The price at that depth is dominated by the per foot cost. But inside the per-foot cost is the licensing, regulatory, casing compliance, and permitting compliance.

It's about $50/ft just to drill. After that is electric, the pump, the pressure tanks, burying pipe to enough houses to make each share cheap enough, and the legal cost of setting up a well share.

If you just wanted a well for your own property and merely put a spigot powered by a generator right next to it, you might be able to get away with $35k to start with. If you are looking to do a well share so that it becomes more economically feasible to split costs, I think it would be minimum $50k.
by belorn | 2025-08-25 23:21:44+00:00
Karolinska Institute in Sweden did a study during the pandemic that had findings of virus particles in every location in the hospital ventilation system, past all filters and air purifying. It was a early finding that indicated the role of recycled air in spreading the virus in places like airports, planes, trains and large buildings like shopping malls. The covid virus is so small and so effective as a airborne virus that even hospital filters had a limited effect.
by Tostino | 2025-08-25 23:21:55+00:00
Have dealt with this. I own a 2007 RV. Maintain it well enough that it isn't an eyesore, but I'm not going to waste my life on upkeep. I have never been turned away from an RV park in the last ~6 years that I've owned it, even when staying at "must be 10 years old or newer" camp sites.

Like you said, it's more used as a policy to turn away. People who the park doesn't think fits their vibe.
by homebrewer | 2025-08-25 23:22:08+00:00
It's already that way in my country. The few banks that still have the web version only support it for their business clients, and it's only something like two or three banks. If you're a regular client, there's not a single bank left that you can still use without a smartphone (unless you're ready to visit a branch for every little thing — so pretty much daily).
by greenavocado | 2025-08-25 23:22:37+00:00
If you are having random people try to attack you while you are at your home, you need to be prepared. Strengthen your door jambs with nine inch screws to replace the screws your door is mounted to and use metal plates to strengthen the locks (there are kits available at home improvement stores), install adherent plastic frosting on your windows that will slow down break ins by making the window much more annoying to break through, and install surveillence cameras outdoors. On the offensive front, you can consider OC/CS grenades you can throw down the hallway to avoid exposing yourself and handheld pepper spray for non-lethal deterrence at moderate range. Finally, if all else fails, keep a loaded handgun in a easy to use but hard for kids to unlock gun box under your drawer next to your bed. An under barrel flash light severely blinds invaders and makes them think twice about charging you, maximizing the chances that you nobody will get hurt. The door jamb upgrade is the most important one. I have returned home to a severely beaten door with my shattered iron door knocker on the ground laying in front of the door in pieces but the house was impenetrable to the burglar(s) who weren't willing to break through the glass. It also doesn't hurt to install fake $5 security dome cameras around the property.
by shazbotter | 2025-08-25 23:23:02+00:00
Yes. Of course it failed. It also succeeded several times. I'm not a communist, though. (I do have communist friends, however.)

Most of my communist friends are not authoritarian communists (aka tankies). A tankie is a very specific type of communist who believes in central autocratic power and a single party.

I think you'll find most modern communists tend to prefer a worker led democratic government. And people like myself prefer a syndicalist democracy without a central government.

I consider tankies my opponents, just like I consider all authoritarians my opponents.
by high_priest | 2025-08-25 23:23:08+00:00
Recently, I had written a post mentioning basics of my fully keyboard oriented workflow on Windows.

https://amun.pl/blog/post/working-on-windows-with-keyboard-o... (Sorry for missing images, I accidentally deleted them when messing with containers backups)

I mention the BrowseCut chromium plugin over there, which made navigating all kinds of pages, a total breeze.

Expecting questions if the BrowseCut extension works with Duolingo. It does not. Although, I have not had issues on any other pages.
by valbaca | 2025-08-25 23:23:10+00:00
> It's the same reason you don't need to run a double blind study on whether seat belts work.

We might need some historical investigation into the road that was travelled to get seatbelts to where they are now (physically, legally, and socially). I'm a millennial and I remember growing up where similar arguments were made:

- "If it's my time to go, then it's God's will"

- "It's uncomfortable"

- zero/inconsistent law enforcement

- "If the car rolls over than it can trap you"

To now, where it's entirely automatic and incredibly wild to even suggest being without a seatbelt.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-25 23:23:11+00:00
Utterly pointless.

Banking apps, messaging apps, streaming apps, even video games all want locked down devices. They will use hardware cryptography to discriminate against us and refuse service if they can't cryprographically prove we're using a corporate owned device.

Naughty user. Looks like you've been tampering with your device, installing unauthorized software and whatnot. Only money laundering drug trafficking child molesting terrorists do that. I'm gonna have to deny your request to log you into your bank account.
by blooalien | 2025-08-25 23:23:24+00:00
> ... "under this definition, bluesky and friends, dsspite all their talk, really does fit in the centralized camp."

In my mind, I put them somewhere in-between, leaning a tad more toward "centralized" because they still rely on an individual to host the service no matter how "federated" they are. Until they're truly peer-to-peer, there's still that aspect of centralization involved. We need something kinda like BitTorrent but for messaging / social connections.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-08-25 23:24:24+00:00
Agreed. Most people don't care that they can't run "unauthorized app XYZ", as long as their bank account / vacation pics / texts don't leak.

Now, that may happen anyway, but they'll give up a TON to avoid that.

Me, I try to avoid using my phone for anything important, use a VPN under Linux at home whenever possible, ad blockers, privacy guard, etc, etc. I can't expect my non-technical family members to do that.

Bad car analogy coming up: MOST drivers benefit more from ABS than the few really, really good race car drivers who can do threshold braking and outbrake ABS - and even then, I doubt it's true for anything but the earliest ABS systems. I'll bet the newest ABS systems are better than almost any human - because they don't have an off day, don't get distracted, etc.

And I get the anger - I'm an old school Atari 800xl / ST / DOS / Linux user who tries to ditch Windows where possible. Restricting things seems heavy-handed - and I don't trust Google in the least. But I would NEVER tell anyone in my family to sideload an app, even though they're all Android users - I don't want that support burden.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-25 23:24:45+00:00
> Instead, the computer models showed that after a giant impact, the dense rocky material would quickly settle back down

At planetary scales, never underestimate the power of gravity to force everything to settle.

In particular, I'm thinking of soft sci-fi settings where a planet or moon is artistically unspherical, either from fantastic geologic processes, or because it was blasted last episode with the hyper-mega-beam.

Nope, that's like trying to scoop a permanent hole out of a mountain of custard.
by arp242 | 2025-08-25 23:25:04+00:00
Whatever may or may not have happened in the past is not especially relevant. Today it's essentially impossible to enter the market as you will need to develop a solid iOS or Android compatibility layer, because the best phone in the world is useless without software (apps) you want to run. This is also a major reason several of those platform you mentioned didn't work out by the way.

Sailfish OS does exactly that, but it has a number of limitations and added friction due to legal and technical reasons.

And choosing between two systems is really not much of a "choice". Right now there is a story on the front page about Android app requiring devs to validate their ID, even for side-loaded apps.
by pinoy420 | 2025-08-25 23:25:22+00:00
Are you allergic to going outside?

I watched a grand designs episode where the parents (well, inflicted by the wife) Munchausen by proxied these allergies onto their kids. They were obsessive about having an allergy free house and spent hundreds of thousands building one with, basically a lesser version of what you explained up there.

Revisiting several years later, the children had integrated with society (amazing that they weren’t homeschooled) and lo and behold - allergy free.

The provocative host coaxed out of the parents that they believed that the house did bugger all in terms of helping their children.

I wonder how the kids are doing now without their namby mother
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-25 23:25:34+00:00
Asking where somebody's from and having them respond with the state is not unreasonable -- you can already tell they’re American from the accent. The US is huge, about half of its states have more land area than half of the countries in the world. Asking where someone is from and receiving "the US" in response is about as informative as someone from Europe replying "Europe". Like yeah, obviously, I could tell by your accent, but where in Europe?
by zahlman | 2025-08-25 23:26:05+00:00
> I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT.

I don't understand the mindset behind letting an LLM generate some text, acknowledging that you did so, acknowledging that there are serious issues with it, but then publishing it without taking action to fix it.

> Recall that in SimKube, there is

If you hope to get traction, it's important to write in a way that doesn't assume the reader has seen your previous work. At the very least, leave a link.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-25 23:26:26+00:00
> we would share Java phone games at school via Bluetooth. I’d assume kids these days generally don’t anymore.

I am both happy (from a user-friendliness point of view) and sad (from a "works offline" perspective) that F-Droid's share button now shares a link that will show them info about the app with an option to install the software, instead of the share button directly giving you an APK file with no way to link someone to the 'store' page. I'd personally still know how to send people APKs via hotspot or bluetooth (such as for peer-to-peer voice/message apps) but a lot of people won't

This move from sending each other software to sending each other links to centralized platforms has been long ongoing. Most messaging systems don't allow you to send executable (.exe, .apk, .sh, etc.) files anymore. And I believe that virtually all of them individually do it for your own good, but the combined result is a societal shift