MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teeray | 2025-08-28 03:29:58+00:00
While this is valuable for the physical “how”, there is quite a bit of regulatory “how” that you must also figure out if this is something you wish to do. In many states, there are setbacks from property lines, buildings, and septic systems to be considered. For example, here are NH’s rules for dug wells: https://www.des.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt341/files/documen...
by dcrazy | 2025-08-28 03:30:10+00:00
I don’t understand this argument. If the CPU dissipated an equal number of watts of heat energy as it consumed from the wall, there wouldn’t be any energy left to do actual useful work. Isn’t the extra 100W accounted for by things like changing the state of flip-flops? In other words, mustn’t one consider the entropy reduction of the system as an energy sink?
by colechristensen | 2025-08-28 03:30:20+00:00
>Does one have to be one of the self-congratulatory "healthy" and swear off vices to benefit from this, or is it something you can do before you head off to the bar?

This is... well it's much more of a direct physical response so no you don't need to have any particular uh mental states or be self-convinced of some woo.

Have you ever hyperventilated until you felt lightheadded? You can do this on purpose right now with no training or conditioning your thoughts or anything and there you go, you've got neurological effects from breathing.

This technique is just advanced "hyperventilating until you feel lightheaded".

If you've got a medical condition you might want to reconsider or be very careful about getting the right information before you try.
by canucker2016 | 2025-08-28 03:30:37+00:00
from https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-asus-ascent-gx10-a-...

ASUS and NVIDIA told us that their GB10 platforms are expected to use up to 170W.

[edit] the PSU is 240W so that'd place an upper limit on power draw, unless they upgrade it.
by tqi | 2025-08-28 03:31:23+00:00
This seems like excruciatingly obvious? Anything popular, including books tv shows and movies, also affect "everyday" speech. Where's the moral panic about that?

“My motivation to pursue this research stems from seeing AI push the limits of what’s possible in major industries and realizing that this influence isn’t just limited to tool usage — it can condition societal aspects, including how we use language.” More like the motivation was to find something zeitgeisty that they knew would get them eyeballs and hopefully tenure.
by eigen | 2025-08-28 03:31:38+00:00
> A Staff and Sr manager would be paid the same

do they report to the same level? every place I've seen a "technical track" and "management track" it seems the higher level technical people report to someone on the same or even lower level in management. I.E. a manager can have technical reports that are equal level or higher. that obviously doesn't happen in the management track.

not that these are first level managers but if a principal engineer not reporting to a VP, the it doesnt seem like the tracks are equal.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-28 03:31:41+00:00
I am trying to figure out what this means for me as a very pro vax person who is healthy - until I get any type of respiratory viral infection and my immune system over reacts.

Covid vaccines seem like they are going to be more of a pain to get because I will have to go to a doctor instead of the pharmacist. Flu and pneumonia vaccines don’t seem to be affected yet.

I am paying more attention to other country’s health departments since you can no longer trust the US.

On the other hand, the US was one of the last countries to admit that the COVID vaccines - especially the non mRNA variants effectiveness wore off. I got a booster off label a couple of months before it was officially recommended in the US based on credible evidence from other country’s health departments
by schiffern | 2025-08-28 03:32:16+00:00
Yup, someone thought of it. That man's name? Buzz Aldrin.

https://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/rocket_science/aldrin-ma...

https://web.archive.org/web/20101102073607if_/http://buzzald...

It is indeed more efficient to perform the usual Hohmann transfer, but the advantage of the Aldrin Cycler concept is you can accelerate a large vehicle once and then 'amortize' that over multiple trips.
by acdha | 2025-08-28 03:35:34+00:00
It’s a big mistake to thing of people as stupid: they’d be far less dangerous if they actually were.

The problem isn’t lack of intelligence but the information space they inhabit and the feeling that they have somehow been mistreated. There’s an entire genre of “why are leopards eating my face?” schadenfreude posts about MAGAs asking why Trump is doing some “surprising” thing he said he was going to do for years. Because they’re _not_ stupid, once they’ve thrown in with a side they’ll put a lot of effort into coming up with rationalizations or attacks to try to “balance” things out. The bitter grievances are really powerful because they let people talk themselves into seeing things as necessary sacrifices: sure, you’re losing Medicaid and paying more in taxes but the alternative is living in a world where Riley Gaines was forced to tie for fifth so I guess you just have to tighten your belt on behalf of female athletes.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-28 03:36:10+00:00
>“Decades and decades” would satisfy your 20-yr scenario

Actually it's more like "decade and decade" lol

I have been surprised at the figures I found for nuclear power versus wind. The reason our nuclear reactors cost so much, so far as I've heard, is that each one is designed anew and there are tremendous regulatory compliance costs. I think designs could be standardized and regulatory stuff streamlined, so as to drastically reduce costs for nuclear. Say what you will about Chinese safety or quality, but they seem to be cranking out a ton of new nuclear reactors as most of the West is foolishly retiring theirs with no good replacement.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-28 03:36:24+00:00
Japan used a lot of Deming’s theories, to significant success. I worked for a Japanese company.

In my case, the company produced absolutely top-shelf stuff, but even relatively mediocre companies did well, using Deming’s techniques. It required that everyone be on board, wrt the culture, though.

But I have found that a “good” engineer is one that takes their vocation seriously. They may not be that accomplished or skilled, but they have self-discipline, humility, and structure.

I’ve met quite a few highly-skilled “not-good” engineers, in my day. I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve hired some of them.
by moandcompany | 2025-08-28 03:36:40+00:00
It's been a few years, but from what I recall, a Principal is a Director-equivalent (L8) level.

The prior poster is missing the L7 tier, which is Senior Staff Engineering Manager for the Engineering Manager Ladder.

L8 is a Director on the Engineering Manager Ladder L8 is a Principal on the Software Engineer (SWE) Ladder.

Tech-Lead Managers (TL/M or TLMs) were on the SWE Ladder.

For reference:

Software Engineer Ladder

L8 - Principal Software Engineer

L7 - Senior Staff Software Engineer

L6 - Staff Software Engineer

L5 - Senior Software Engineer

L4 - Software Engineer II

L3 - Software Engineer (new graduates would start here)

----------------------

L2 and below exists in rare occasions.

Engineering Manager Ladder

L8 - Director

L7 - Staff Engineering Manager

L6 - Engineering Manager (M1)

L5 - Engineering Manager (M0 - normally this level does not exist for external hires and is for the rare situation when a SWE is converting to the Engineering Manager ladder)
by canucker2016 | 2025-08-28 03:36:59+00:00
on the reserve now page for USA, there's:

ASUS Ascent GX10 - 1TB $2,999 MSI EdgeXpert MS-C931 - 4TB $3,999

the 1TB/4TB seems to be the size of the included NVMe SSD.

the reserve now page also lists

NVIDIA DGX Spark Bundle 2 NVIDIA DGX Spark Units - 4TB with Connecting Cable $8,049

The DGX Spark specs lists an NVIDIA ConnectX-7 Smart NIC which is rated at 200Gbe to connect to another DGX Spark, for about double the amount of memory for models.
by mappu | 2025-08-28 03:38:36+00:00
VMs also don't always require hardware virtualization - Alibaba's PVM https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/2/26/1263 didn't get upstreamed, but, theoretically the MMU is all you need for complete isolation. This kind of idea is also how VM software worked before VT-x was introduced. And of course QEMU has the TCG which works with no kernel support at all.
by pedalpete | 2025-08-28 03:39:05+00:00
I'm sorry to hear about your mother.

Yeah, there is a relationship between sleep and Parkinson's and there is some preliminary research in what our technology does in that space.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.25320306v...

One of the challenges in improving sleep in these diseases is that just because we're improving sleep and people feel better because they are sleeping better, doesn't mean we're actually treating the underlying disease. It can be difficult to measure the difference.
by neuronexmachina | 2025-08-28 03:39:54+00:00
Yep. He was forced to pull his first nominee for CDC director due to the nominee being an anti-vaxxer: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/dave-weldon-vaccine...

> Weldon, a Florida representative from 1995 until 2009, has been critical of the federal government’s oversight of vaccine safety. While in the House, he sponsored a bill that would have taken vaccine safety oversight from the CDC and created a separate “Agency for Vaccine Safety Evaluation” under HHS, and as recently as 2019 repeated the disproved claim that “some children can get an autism spectrum disorder from a vaccine” in an interview.
by the_af | 2025-08-28 03:40:17+00:00
What do you mean? As far as I know, the context is that Miyazaki hated it because it reminded him of a friend with disabilities. That's why he said it was an insult to life itself.

Miyazaki's attitude to tech in general is ambivalent, isn't it? He used to be very conservative and traditional, yet in Princess Mononoke you can tell he used some CGI.

I think I agree with his approach: the work/vision comes first, and tech can be used but not as a gimmick, and always careful not to overpower the artistry.
by ivape | 2025-08-28 03:40:46+00:00
How about “the current properties of your relationship with reality”. Adjust the properties, and your relationship with reality changes. For example, the properties of the relationship to reality of a six year old is different than that of the relationship to reality of a twenty year old. They are not conscious in the same way.

Experiences are byproducts once the system is set (adjust the properties, perceive reality based on that), and then experiences pop out. I would consider consciousness (a state) different from the byproducts of consciousness (the things that happen in that state).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-28 03:41:18+00:00
I'm lazy, so I have sudo and 1P/op gated by biometric. If for some reason biometric doesn't work (which happens a lot in Ubuntu... sigh...) I have a long alt-password that works instead. Otherwise I never type passwords, I only get them from 1P, because they're all complex and unique so I wouldn't remember them anyway. If I get a prompt I wasn't expecting, I cancel it.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-28 03:41:37+00:00
> but a choice is forced between two options and I (and the majority of the voting public) thought Harris was worse

Glad you finally had the balls to say this. Dunno why you had to type all that up. Next time, just say you would rather have a dictator in charge who you align with ideologically, and that the most important thing to you.
by ggm | 2025-08-28 03:41:38+00:00
> The physicians in my life - including my spouse - have essentially all abandoned the CDC and FDA as a source of decision-making on vaccines and pharmaceuticals, except for what is required by law.

The risk in this implicitly will be that some vaccines may be declared illegal, or not permitted in some other licencing model, which means physicians will be at risk of their professional registration to make them available.

I could imagine a similar risk in the prescribing of Mifepristone/Misoprostol. Not to actually declare 'day after' pill illegal, but withdraw licence to use the drugs, and put doctors at risk if they go ahead.
by lovich | 2025-08-28 03:42:46+00:00
> Role power is by far the least effective.

Eh, maybe at faangs or at the executive level but at non faangs you might not notice a role having power because most roles with the Manager title are no longer actual managers but supervisors.

I had more agency over where capital was deployed as a teenager deciding how many people were going to be on the shift for closing, then I have making over 200k/yr as a Senior Manager.

Any role that has decision making power over where money goes automatically has a massive amount more power than a role that does not
by pedalpete | 2025-08-28 03:42:51+00:00
Interesting, I commented above about the research in slow-wave enhancement (the foundational science behind our technology) in Parkinson's, however, the potential in MCI and Alzheimer's including positive amyloid response in healthy older adults, and significant increases in deep sleep in people living with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.

During early night stimulation, stimulation has shown to decrease cortisol levels by 15% in healthy older adults. One theory is this helps people living with AD because they have a cortisol dysregulation which is disruptive to their sleep.
by malteg | 2025-08-28 03:42:57+00:00
I am more confused - a "commitment engine" ? Like crowdfunding? Seems its a static page which does not reflect the actual demand: https://github.com/gunta/PRiority/blob/5f05aea3b499f7830a82f... - so where is the "system underneath"?

"In 24 hours, I've collected hundreds of dollars in binding commitments for a product that doesn't exist yet " - so the original statement "From tweet to deployed product in three hours" means actually 'from tweet to non-existing product in 3 hours' - so what you spend these 3 hours on? Why you need claude for it? what does this have to do with software?

Talking about the actual development: "The GitHub bot implementation? That's the easy part. I can do that in less than 3 hours." - if you can do so, anyone can do, so why to buy your 'product'?

'build it and they will come,' I think thats a very outdated view - basic marketing classes teach you how to validate your product market fit, especially if you go into new markets.

all in all, "Why Everything You Know About Software Is Now Wrong" just reflects on how you misunderstand profesional software companies - they dont build for fun or try out something new - they build to deliver solutions for customer requirements.

But perhaps I am wrong - perhaps stripe already knows that "everything you know about software is wront", and they dont "spent months planning architectures?" and achieved 99.999 uptime with claude and abit of luck: https://stripe.com/blog/how-stripes-document-databases-suppo... . I will think about it once again when I stuck in Tokyo underground caus the entire IC system goes down as it was reimplemented within 3 hours by vibe coding :)
by TheCraiggers | 2025-08-28 03:45:32+00:00
> Is one persons statement less important than the other? Less profound or less valid?

To whom?

One of my favorite quotes is "The product of your art is you." (I heard it from Brandon Sanderson, not sure if he's the original.) I have come to believe this is true on multiple levels. So in your example, I can answer "they're both equally valid and profound" assuming they put similar levels of effort, skill, and basically themselves into that work.

I think that's the part where generative art falls behind. Sure, I can generate some art of a frog, print it, and hang it on my wall. But the print next to it, that I took with my actual camera after wading through a swamp all day? That will have much more profound meaning to me.

Excellent question though. I had to think for awhile on this, and most importantly, I learned something while doing it. Thank you.
by gentooflux | 2025-08-28 03:46:40+00:00
Accu-pressure mat seems to (for me) induce the body temperature spike and dip that accompanies the start of the sleep cycle in the same way that taking a warm shower before bed is supposed to. I've also found that it adds to the intensity of deep breathing exercises.

The most surprising thing is that despite the initial discomfort, I often find myself waking up on the thing an hour or more after laying down on it. I always set a stopwatch timer on my phone when I use it since 20 full minutes on it is the baseline recommendation, but very often I'll blow right past that.
by glaucon | 2025-08-28 03:47:57+00:00
> hint- the wealthiest man in the world for 20 straight years

Your hint doesn't help me much because, as far as I can tell, no individual has been considered the wealthiest person in the world for a period of twenty consecutive years since John P Getty[1], and he's been dead for fifty years. It seems unlikely that he had views about vaccine policy in the USA which are relevant to today, so who are you referring to?

[1] https://www.madisontrust.com/information-center/visualizatio...
by clumsysmurf | 2025-08-28 03:49:24+00:00
Indeed,

"Nineteen states have laws or regulations that only let pharmacists administer vaccines recommended by ACIP, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

In those states, pharmacies may not be able to dole out shots even for people who fit the FDA’s narrowed range until the committee makes its recommendation."

https://apnews.com/article/covid-19-vaccine-insurance-covera...
Show HN: AIKit - Minimal library for calling OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini gen APIs
by _chinmaymk | 2025-08-28 03:49:38+00:00
AIKit is a minimal TypeScript wrapper that gives you unified access to the generation APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini—complete with streaming, multimodal inputs, and tool calling. No extra runtime packages: just the fetch that ships with modern Node and browsers.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-28 03:51:39+00:00
> "disease very bad. disease may kill. inject this. you less likely to get disease."

The actual argument is that by everyone getting injected, society as a whole crosses a threshold where viruses fail to spread exponentially and don't cause pandemics.

It's a more nuanced, more complex reason that some (incredibly selfish) people are just unable to grasp.

"Why would I ever a tiny personal risk to stop other people getting sick!?" was a very common argument during the COVID pandemic.
by agentultra | 2025-08-28 03:52:22+00:00
This is why I like strong, sound static type systems with interesting features.

I’ve had similar experiences working with a large 1m+ SLOC Haskell codebase. It was straightforward to make large refactors because of the type system.

And we weren’t even using fancy things like linear types. Just plain old Haskell with a sprinkling of dependent types in core, critical sections.
by foresto | 2025-08-28 03:53:10+00:00
That copy is missing the chapters. Here they are:

00:00:00 - The NVIDIA AI GPU Black Market

00:06:06 - WE NEED YOUR HELP

00:07:41 - A BIG ADVENTURE

00:10:10 - Ignored by the US

00:11:46 - BACKGROUND: Why They're Banned

00:16:04 - TIMELINE

00:21:32 - H20 15 Percent Revenue Share with the US

00:26:01 - Calculating BANNED GPUs

00:29:31 - OUR INFORMANTS

00:31:47 - THE SMUGGLING PIPELINE

00:33:39 - PART 1: HONG KONG Demand Drivers

00:43:14 - PART 1: How Do Suppliers Get the GPUs?

00:48:18 - PART 1: GPU Rich and GPU Poor

00:56:19 - PART 1: DATACENTER with Banned GPUs, AMD, Intel

01:06:19 - PART 1: Chinese Military, Huawei GPUs

01:09:48 - PART 1: How China Circumvents the Ban

01:19:30 - PART 1: GPU MARKET in Hong Kong

01:32:39 - WIRING MONEY TO CHINA

01:36:29 - PART 2: CHINA Smuggling Process

01:43:26 - PART 3: SHENZHEN's GPU MIDDLEMEN

01:50:22 - PART 3: AMD and INTEL GPUs Unwanted

01:56:34 - PART 4: THE GPU FENCE

02:06:01 - PART 4: FINDING the GPUs

02:15:12 - PART 4: THE FIXER IC Supplier

02:21:12 - PART 5: GPU WAREHOUSE

02:27:17 - PART 6: CHOP SHOP and REPAIR

02:34:52 - PART 6: BUILD a Custom AI GPU

02:56:33 - PART 7: FACTORY

03:01:01 - PART 8: TAIWAN and SINGAPORE Intermediaries

03:02:06 - PART 9: SMUGGLER

03:05:11 - LEGALITY of Buying and Selling

03:08:05 - CORRUPTION: NVIDIA and Governments

03:26:51 - SIGNOFF
by kees99 | 2025-08-28 03:54:41+00:00
> not offering (...) GPIO/I2C/SPI/Serial

Nearly every "old PC" does offer built-in easily accessible I2C - as "DDC channel" of a monitor plug - VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort - all have it. Linux exposes those as regular /dev/i2c-*, so any I2C software that works on a RPi or other Linux SBC, will run with those too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120903090802/http://www.painty...
by adzm | 2025-08-28 03:55:13+00:00
Personally I like to think of breathwork as another form of music, or rather that music and breathwork are all rhythmic stimulus with similar and complementary effects. Add dance to this as well. One of the big draws of EDM and trance and tribal music is the incessant rhythm of music and dance.

The altered states from uninhibited dance really seem to be underappreciated.

Along with rhythmic visuals and lights, and things like binaurals etc, the common trait is the rhythm.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-08-28 03:55:33+00:00
The problem with an Aldrin Cycler https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aldrin_cycler is that you pretty much have to leave it unoccupied for several years at a time because the planets are in the wrong place on most orbits. Then after 20-30 years the gaskets start to leak and the electronics get glitchy. Look up how much elbow grease it takes to replace the expired components on the ISS over a 5 year period.
by Incipient | 2025-08-28 03:55:56+00:00
There are a myriad of companies that have thrived in "IP locked" environments, a host that have failed too. Equally there are heaps that have thrived and failed in "IP open" environments.

I think at best you could say it's more challenging or perhaps risky being a bit restricted with IP, but I'd call it miles away from a "graveyard".

You can hardly call Intel/amd/qualcomm etc all struggling due to the architectures being locked down.

Look at powerpc/Isa. It's (entirely?) open and hasn't really done any better than x86.

Fundamentally you're going to be tied to backwards compatibility to some extent. You're limited to evolution, not revolution. And I don't think x86 had failed to evolve? (eg avx10 is very new)
by aix1 | 2025-08-28 03:58:23+00:00
> At that time my M was a staff level IC TLM with 4 reports who was forcibly converted to EM.

I am obviously not disputing your experience, but wanted to mention that this was not the standard pattern. The standard pattern for forced conversion at L6 (Staff) was either 6 or 7 reports (I don't remember exactly).

> Principal EM

I don't want to be overly pedantic, but there's no Principal EM on Google eng ladders and so it's not entirely clear which level you're referring to.

The IC ladder runs Staff SWE (L6) - Senior Staff SWE (L7) - Principal SWE (L8) - Distinguished SWE (L9)

The Eng Manager ladder runs EM II (L6) - EM III (L7) - Director (L8) - Senior Director (L9)

P.S. I hope I got the EM II/III designations right. I think EM I is L5, though almost never seen in practice.

P.P.S. Confusingly, the IC ladder allows a limited number of reports (the limit increases with level).
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-28 03:59:19+00:00
> Good developers looks at "what is the best and simplest (KISS) tool for this?"

Good ol’ SSR - but eventually users and PMs start requesting features that can only be implemented with an SPA system, and I (begrudgingly) accept their arguments.

In my role (of many) as technical architect for my org, and as an act of resistance (and possibly to intentionally sabotage LLMs taking over), I opted for hybrid SSR + Svelte - it’s working well for us.