MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JasonSage | 2025-08-25 19:11:57+00:00
The saying is confusing and I would suggest makes the opposite claim. It’s common in sports. You practice at an uncomfortable pace to normalize it, even making mistakes, because if you can’t practice at game speed you won’t be able to compete at game speed. In that context there’s room for both, and I’d say the same for music—you need slow, deliberate practice and also reps in “performance” mode, and it’s probably too reductive to say you should “only” be doing either at any point in time.
by millerm | 2025-08-25 19:12:21+00:00
> And thus these kind of statements happen within an application.

Who made that rule? Most database tools I have used do this. I can go into SQLite's command interface and do it. It's not limited to the application.

Not all of us want to write code for everything. Sometimes when I'm developing an app or an idea, the last thing I want to do is keep messing with cruft I don't have to. It's a waste of time to write yet another alter/create/etc script. I just click and change it. That's it, and I move on. I don't care until my design is done to export/create the creation/alter scripts, if I even need them, because I can ship a fully set up DB file with the app, I don't actually have to have scripts for that stuff. Sure, later I may need to on an update, but when rapidly prototyping I'd rather just have the quickest way to deal with it. Else, the argument becomes "Why not just use the SQLite terminal interface instead of a graphical tool?" or "Why would you create or rename a directory using Finder rather than a shell script to do it?"

> IE, who's using SQLite in this way, and what are they using it for?

Anyone that wants to do such things? I just recently wrote an app that runs in a browser using only javascript, but in the end I wanted the data and it exports it to JSON so I can load it into another app. I haven't gotten around to integrating these (and I probably won't) as the app is a pure browser application, but the other is a tool for creating TTML2 documents, and I need that data. So, I can easily import that. It's not a commercial thing, it's my own. So, I don't want to merge the two. I don't mind the step. This sort of thing is good. What is wrong with the ability to do so? PostgreSQL can do it. You don't believe it could be useful to export your data so that someone that isn't using SQLite can view it? Dumping a table for viewing in Excel is so common that I don't really understand why you're asking.

There are literally billions of devices using SQLite. And within those devices, countless applications are using the thing. Do you believe it has a limited set of use cases? Heck no.

Your questions seem like bait and I bit.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-25 19:12:51+00:00
The claims are unsubstantiated. From the source article:

> Disclaimer: The identity of the news submitter has been verified by us. However, we have not received any confirmation or verification from Walmart regarding the information provided.

Without proof or corroborating evidence, this is social media rage bait making the rounds. Proof and evidence are of course welcome to substantiate the claims being made.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-25 19:13:19+00:00
Is that not a transition through the color mixing (or overlay). I'm assuming the light sort of tails off as you leave the area of one color and head to the other (and the other color comes on with more intensity then).

I suppose that's different with light than some analog with pigments? (Two dabs of color set apart, a brush perhaps used to blend them as continuously as is possible.)
by citrusybread | 2025-08-25 19:13:28+00:00
Not using it this way, but wanting to: a friend of mine is working on a TTRPG. He has items, powers, other things to track - and right now it's in a mess of a Word document.

It would be so much better if he could store these things in SQL - for non developers, they often use Excel, when a SQL DB is the correct solution, just because they can't figure out SQL at all. A visual editor/manager is perfect for them - create a table with columns, enter data, later integrate with other tools that can pull it out.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-25 19:13:33+00:00
There was chatter about this in one of the NYC subreddits over the weekend.

Apparently ending the de minimus exemption is closing the grey market for e.g. sunscreen; places that used to sell Japanese sunscreens on American shelves no longer are.

There's a frustratingly long list of goods that the US decided to put requirements on in previous generations, and then stopped maintaining. Sunscreen is one; other countries have invented sunscreens that feel better on your skin than the old styles, but aren't yet approved in the US. Motorcycle helmets are another. You may have seen the MIPS system - the yellow slipliner that's become popular in bicycle helmets. Scientists have realized that rotational impact leads to concussions and similar brain damage, but prior helmets only protected against naive impacts. Europe now requires helmets to protect against rotational damage. The US requires that manufacturers self-assert that they meet a very old standard that ignores rotational impact. They do not recognize Europe's new standard.

Closing these de minimus exemptions is making it harder for discerning consumers to buy higher quality goods than are currently available in the US right now. Protectionists are going to see this as a win.

More background on helmet standards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUyp3HX8cY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yu124i3Bo
by danenania | 2025-08-25 19:13:38+00:00
Sorry you got triggered. I know it can be an emotional topic for some people. I'll try to explain in a simple way.

We clearly are replicating at least some significant aspects of human intelligence via LLMs, despite biological complexity. So we obviously don't need a 100% complete understanding of the corresponding biology to build things which achieve similar goals.

In other words, we can (conceivably) figure out how intelligence works and how to produce it independently of figuring out exactly how the human brain produces intelligence, just like we learned the laws of aerodynamics well enough to build airplanes independently of understanding everything about the biology of birds.

Whether we will achieve this or not to the point of AGI is a separate engineering question. I'm only pointing out how flawed these lines of argument are.
by gosub100 | 2025-08-25 19:14:21+00:00
"do not call" means "call me from India on a burner number". Seriously, I've been fighting scammers for years now and their MO is some sort of SEO service where a local business pays to get more "marketing" and (probably unbeknownst to them) their money is used to fund an outbound call center in India that robodials all day long, careful to not call during the night. The calls solicit Medicare upgrades, burial insurance, or home improvement. I don't think these are the malignant "clean your bank account" scammers, they end up promoting legitimate business with the catch that "by accepting this offer you agree to be called (by the local rep) even if you are on the DNC list". So their original robodial is illegal but it's from India so good luck with that, but they record your consent if you pretend to be interested in the product, so you cannot sue the people who contracted them. It's just a classic skirt the law ploy.
by bccdee | 2025-08-25 19:14:28+00:00
> Sounds very much like the description of a big ball of mud.

I mean, yeah, kinda.

For any given object in the game world, it's funnest for that object to be able to interact with as many other objects as possible in as many ways as possible. A game object's handles for interaction need to be globally available and can't impose many invariants—especially if you don't want level designers to have to be constantly re-architecting the engine code to punch new holes for themselves in the API. Thus, a lot of the logic in a given level tends to live inside the callback hooks of level objects, and tends to depend on the state of the rest of the level for correctness.

Modularity is a property of high cohesion and low coupling, which are themselves only possible when you can pin down your design and hide information behind abstraction boundaries. But games are a flexible and dynamic enough field that engines have to basically let designers do whatever they want, whenever they want in order for the engine to be able to build arbitrary games. So game design is naturally a highly-coupled, incohesive problem space that is poorly suited to unit testing.
by kube-system | 2025-08-25 19:14:30+00:00
That's quite a tall claim to be making about a country built on immigration. The greatest periods of economic growth in the US are correlated with immigration rates.

I don't know what "proof" you have but remember that the economic impacts of demographic shifts are pretty broad, so I would suggest you validate that your source is taking that into account, and isn't intentionally biased for political reasons. The overwhelmingly predominant economic opinion is that immigration is very valuable in growing a country's wealth.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-08-25 19:14:30+00:00
>she should buy the Professional version of Windows, and not the adware-riddled Home one

Interesting and disappointing. When I googled the difference between the two versions I only came up with the fact that one supported disk encryption (which I didn't really feel was necessary for a desktop)

I would have loved a stripped down install of windows without all the bloat, but the only option I knew of was the LTSC version which is supposedly janky for gaming
by breadwinner | 2025-08-25 19:14:59+00:00
After acquiring Macromedia in 2005, Adobe integrated Flash into several of its products, including Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. This allowed embedded Flash (SWF) content in PDFs, which contributed to increased installer size and complexity. Flash support was eventually removed in the early 2020s after Adobe officially ended support for Flash Player.

Adobe also embedded a JavaScript engine in Acrobat to support interactive PDF features like form validation and automation. Both Flash and JavaScript introduced significant security risks over the years.

While Flash is no longer supported, Acrobat Reader still includes JavaScript functionality, which remains a potential attack surface. In contrast, lightweight PDF readers such as Sumatra do not support JavaScript or Flash, offering a smaller and more secure footprint.
by lapcat | 2025-08-25 19:15:00+00:00
> old people predominantly aren't buying new homes

What do you mean exactly by buying new homes?

Obviously the average length of home ownership for the oldest group would be much longer than for the youngest age group. How new were their homes when they were first purchased, and has that number changed over time? I have no idea. But if the value of older homes is increasing, it means that someone is purchasing those older homes.

> or investing in new equities

If I'm reading the tables right, it looks like the oldest group received their largest jump in net worth during 2019-2022 and actually did worse than all other groups in 2016-2019.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-25 19:15:06+00:00
Democracies can't survive with unfettered free speech. It's called the Paradox of tolerance [1] or sometimes the Popper paradox (after Karl Popper).

I don't know if you've ever seen some of the dark corners of the Internet. This includes 4chan, Kiwi Farms and, well, arguably Twitter at this point. Twitter has really become 4chan. But I digress.

We, as a society, are fine with suppressing certain kinds of speech. We always have. We can use CSAM as an obvious counterexample to free speech absolutism. There's no way to reconcile banning that and free speech absolutism. At some point it comes down to deciding certain kinds of expression is simply unacceptable.

Now is the UK government using 4chan (etc) as a stalking horse for a wider surveillance state? Almost certainly.

We saw a similar thing when Apple wanted to scan all private messages for CSAM. They faced a completely understandable backlash and reversed course.

But we don't have to defend 4chan or Kiwi Farms to oppose a surveillance state.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-25 19:15:10+00:00
I definitely think USB-C would be a pretty good option!

Another option is getting a dedicated power supply. Mean Well makes a HEP-600-20, with 560W of 20V power. You can power quite a cluster off that! It sucks that they don't take 24v: there's so many 24v power supplies, but 19/20V is quite rare!

I have quite handful of hard drives in toaster-style carriers: having a single high efficiency rugged 12V power supply felt better than dealing with a sea of questionable-efficiecy power bricks.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-08-25 19:15:29+00:00
The article begins with a good premise, but in the later phases it tries to brush this off as mostly a right-wing phenomenon; whereas plenty of individualist streaks are also seen within left-wing movements. Of course, a deeper analysis is not possible without devolving the discussion into yet another “their barbarous wastes” discussion[1].

In my view, modern society makes it too easy to seclude yourself from people and ideas that are opposed to yours, and there’s a lot of people focussing on individual achievements and winner-takes-all mindsets instead of trying to see how they can be valuable to their community and build relationships putting aside disagreements.

[1] https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-thei...
by sroerick | 2025-08-25 19:15:49+00:00
Nix seems really cool, and I'd like to explore it. I'm spending more time with OpenBSD right now as that approach just seems simpler. I use Artix and hyprland at home though. It's a better desktop experience, I think. The only reason I'd use OpenBSD or NixOS in the desktop would be to try and learn it more so I was more comfortable in deployment.
by tobias3 | 2025-08-25 19:16:25+00:00
That depends on the regulators being asleep on the wheel again and letting monopolies happen. At the minimum here in Europe they'd automatically fall under Digital Services Act. According to OpenAI they have 41.3 million average monthly active recipients in the European Union. Only a few million more and they fall under DSA.

That is if US sanctions don't kill the DSA.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-25 19:16:47+00:00
> On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff.

I'm pretty sure it's doable, but it probably does need to be baked into the compositor. But since there are compositors that can do full immersive 3D environments with windows moving around in them, I can't believe that there's any manipulation of the contents of a window that you can't do in Wayland.

Of course, being able to add it as tiny helper program is probably something that's going to be specific to X11, or possibly (best case) require non-portable APIs that are specific to individual compositors in Wayland.
by lurker919 | 2025-08-25 19:16:59+00:00
Maybe it just needs provenance. So bad actors can't flood the system.

Counter to the above is that, your bad actor may be my leader. People like convenience. When someone is expressing what you want to say, in a better and smarter way, you just reshare/retweet them. And the 'other side' will feel like your leader is a 'bad actor' who is flooding the system. So even the method of resharing/retweeting needs some sort of provenance/single use only. So you can 'agree' with your thought leader, but they shouldn't be able to mass manufacture consent. Since you might even reshare 'fake news' since you generally trust your leader. It's messy, not sure what that would look like - every post that starts getting traction needs to be fact checked? Community Notes on X is a step in the right direction maybe.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-08-25 19:17:09+00:00
It's weird to me because I seem to be replying to people talking from a prescriptive position (ie "social security should care for the elderly"), while I am trying to force the conversation to a descriptive (ie here are the actual observed impacts of social security).

I don't want to discuss should-statements, and I don't think that violates the spirit of HN.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-25 19:17:35+00:00
Pretty much everyone in my part of the industry is either working with thor-family chips already or actively investigating whether they should switch to them, with very few exceptions. The pricing seems completely viable based on that alone.

Anyone who can use an RPi (or one of many other SoCs in that class) should absolutely consider them, but that's not the market this is competing in. RPis are more comparable to the Jetson nano line, which had sub-$100 dev kits. Slightly above that are the Orin-based tegras like the SoC in the switch 2, which are still clearly viable.
by thfuran | 2025-08-25 19:17:43+00:00
I've received I think two total spam calls in the years since I ported my cell number to a voip service and set up an IVR in front that just says to press any number. It also blocks the very, very few robocalls I might actually want, and occasionally some company will refuse to accept a voip number as a cell number, but most everything just works fine.
by card_zero | 2025-08-25 19:17:51+00:00
From his biography, the turtleneck was kind of an accident:

> “So I called Issey [Miyake] and asked him to design a vest for Apple,” Jobs recalled. “I came back with some samples and told everyone it would be great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea.”

> “So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them.” Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he gestured to them stacked up in the closet. “That’s what I wear,” he said. “I have enough to last for the rest of my life.”

I wonder if Issey thought the turtlenecks might be the Apple uniform, and that's why he made lots.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-25 19:18:12+00:00
It's not a theory -- every business that imports product from international sellers is staring at their current import prices and their remaining pre-tariff inventory numbers right now. (See the huge import volume burst pre-tariffs)

What they're trying to decide is (a) do they eat the cost of tariffs in margin or (b) do they raise prices?

That's a decision that doesn't need to be made until they burn through warehoused inventory, but for high-volume businesses (read: retail) it's measured in months at most.

Once that hits, either (a) or (b) will be chosen, and neither is great for equities markets / the economy.

Moreover, there's no "hiding this under the rug" once publicly traded companies begin to report quarterly financial results AFTER burning through their pre-tariff inventory. They can't not explain to their shareholders why they've taken a hit to profitability.

Best possible case is retail prices rise, once, by the amount of tariffs, and that's that.

But a 15%+ price hike is going to be an uncomfortable narrative for those in power who insist tariffs won't raise prices... so I'm not betting that conversation goes logically.*

* See the reaction part of Amazon got when they "accidentally" line-itemed tariff charges as evidence on how dangerous the administration sees transparency around tariff costs
by bri3d | 2025-08-25 19:18:34+00:00
The CDU is inside the datacenter and strictly liquid to liquid exchange. It transfers heat from the rack block's coolant to the facility coolant. The facility then provides outdoor heat exchange for the facility coolant, which is sometimes accomplished using open-loop evaporative cooling (spraying down the cooling towers). All datacenters have some form of facility cooling, whether there's a CDU and local water cooling or not, so it's not particularly relevant.

The whole AI-water conversation is sort of tiring, since water just moves to more or less efficient parts or locations in the water cycle - I think a "total runtime energy consumption" metric would be much more useful if it were possible to accurately price in water-related externalities (ie - is a massive amount of energy spent moving water because a datacenter evaporates it? or is it no big deal?). And the whole thing really just shows how inefficient and inaccurately priced the market for water is, especially in the US where water rights, price, and the actual utility of water in a given location are often shockingly uncorrelated.
by lxgr | 2025-08-25 19:18:40+00:00
I think you might be talking about "fraudulent transaction/cardholder does not recognize" disputes. Yes, when using 3DS (which is now much more common at least in Europe, due to often being required by regulation in the EU/EEA), these are much less likely to be won by the issuer.

But "merchant does not let me cancel" isn't a fraud dispute (and in fact would probably be lost by the issuing bank if raised as such). Those "non-fraudulent disagreement with the merchant disputes" work very similarly in the US and in Europe.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-25 19:18:56+00:00
Tariffs don't inherently cause inflation.

The noise about inflation is very likely propaganda trying to focus people on something that the government can control. (Yet, it looks like the US government is giving up on controlling it.)

Instead, tariffs have complex effects on the real economy. Universal tariffs do cause the concentration of wealth the GP was talking about (but it's way worse than the GP's claim) and deindustrialization. Inflation may or may not happen, it's not a given.
by ghaff | 2025-08-25 19:19:06+00:00
Yeah. I'm not sure why Spam Risk rings because it almost certainly is spam. But I do get doctor offices, service people related to something I'm dealing with at the moment, emergencies related to family members, etc. that are legit. I suspect the permanently do not disturb faction are mostly in a different life stage than many of us.

I'd probably add that the area code + exchange calls from an area code that you don't actually live in are spam as well though don't see those as much as I once did.
by SirMaster | 2025-08-25 19:19:09+00:00
I have opened mine a few times to clean the wheel encoder. When it gets too dusty the scrolling can get wonky, but I just detach the whole encoder and dunk it in 90% alcohol and then put a dab of lube and then put it back together and it's good for several more months.

I managed to get the screws out without messing up the pads, and for me the mouse seems to stay clicked together just fine without any screws, so I just leave them out and can open it as much as I like without messing with the pads or screws.

I haven't had double clicking buttons yet, but yeah I had seen that the switches are not too hard to replace, so I will probably do that at some point.
by mikestew | 2025-08-25 19:19:14+00:00
Cynically, I feel as if politicians are unwilling to get tough on these, because they (or their proxies) use them.

Of course they do, and they voted themselves an exception. Same reason some small business in Redmond, WA isn't allowed to put out a sandwich board sign, but 10 months before every election every g*ddamned piece of dirt in Redmond has a political sign stuck into it.
by delfinom | 2025-08-25 19:19:19+00:00
They figured out the flaw to SHAKEN/STIR. It was mandated for VOIP calls.

So instead these scam call centers switched to the legacy SS7, that's how you are getting all these fraudulent calls. SS7 is not IP based and incompatible with SHAKEN/STIR

And it'll be 400 years from now before any US telecom thinks about discontinuing SS7.
by EGreg | 2025-08-25 19:19:25+00:00
In areas I am an expert in, I am sure my discoveries are interesting, and probably novel. I am working now to actually build them myself. ChatGPT is just helping discuss what else is out there.

But in areas I am not, I am still skeptical, but enthusiastic — that they’ll be vindicated maybe in a decade. Any physics or QM experts can opine on this? https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=568