MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kristianp | 2025-09-27 19:58:54+00:00
"Reality has a surprising amount of detail" (2017): 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087779

8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255

6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22020495

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407851
by jerlam | 2025-09-27 19:59:21+00:00
China, which has extremely high myopia in its student population, decided to tackle the problem top-down by reducing the amount of homework and forcing kids to play outside. They have some success: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9412110/

The claims have been around a long time, but how many people actually follow the guidelines? There are lots of stronger factors preventing people from doing it: economic unrest, smartphones, fear of outdoors and pollution, stronger emphasis on education, etc.

By the same token, doctors claim we can address heart disease and obesity with exercise and diet, but things don't seem to be getting any better.
by KronisLV | 2025-09-27 19:59:36+00:00
I'm not sure why they haven't been acquired yet by any of the big ones, since clearly Moondream is pretty good! Definitely seems like something Anthropic/OpenAI/whoever would want to fold into their platforms and such. Everyone involved in creating it should probably be swimming in money and visual use cases for LLMs should become far less useless with the reach of the big orgs.
by fathermarz | 2025-09-27 20:01:55+00:00
As I mentioned above. I do not like Microsoft, but there is a difference of intention. In your over-characterization, you forget the fact that they provide product/services to users. Regardless of their strategies and how they build their bottom line, they provide users something in exchange for money. Regardless if the thing they provide has far reaching consequences or happens to be built for better fingerprinting, it’s been long enough of this that informed users know the trade offs.

I am so shocked at the amount of people that think someone who wants to siphon your livelihood in a parasitic fashion is equivalent to a corporation that you have to conceivably opt into using. Users can make choices in the products they use. This person injected themselves as a man in the middle in user’s lives. Completely different circumstances and not at all the same intention.
by TheFreim | 2025-09-27 20:02:14+00:00
Explanation of the NixOS Steering Committee and NixOS Moderation Team (https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1nrsu9c/nixos_modera...):

> The Nix Steering Committee (SC) (https://nixos.org/community/teams/steering-committee/) is the elected community leadership body. It was established as part of the Nix governance constitution (https://github.com/NixOS/org/blob/main/doc/constitution.md) last year, after which the first elections were held, where 450 contributors voted for the current members. This years election (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-election-committee-announc...) is currently in progress. The SC generally is responsible over project direction and community matters, including management of teams. While most responsibilities are delegated, the SC has the authority to step in when necessary.

> The moderation team (https://nixos.org/community/teams/moderation/) was established before the SC or constitution existed. The initial moderators were appointed from RFC 102 (https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0102-moderati...), with the mandate to self-select successors. Over the years the team has changed members a lot, none of the initial members are part of it anymore, and the last larger rotation happened last year. The responsibilities include moderation according to the Code of Conduct (CoC) (https://github.com/NixOS/.github/blob/master/CODE\_OF\_CONDU...) of the official community spaces, which is mostly the Discourse and a bunch of Matrix channels. Earlier this year the now-existing SC took on the responsibility of approving new mod team members and CoC changes (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/code-of-conduct-and-moderation...).
by notatoad | 2025-09-27 20:03:08+00:00
specifically, the first one is XLR to RJ45 - the cable could be cat5, cat6, cat7, etc depending on the standard it was manufactured to. and ethernet is the protocol for the digital signal those cables usually carry.

as you say, it's common to use that cable for long analog audio runs, but when it is used that way it's not ethernet.
by lowsong | 2025-09-27 20:03:55+00:00
Effectively everyone, including Sam Altman [0], is saying we're in a bubble.

The only questions left, the only ones that matter, are:

- When is it going to pop? Tomorrow? Next year? 2030?

- How hard is the crash going to be? Only a bunch of AI startups and one or two of the big "AI" companies (OpenAI, Anthropic) go down, or a global financial crash that wipes out hundreds of companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

- What's left of "AI" tech in the wreckage. Once the hype is over, what real use-cases exist?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/openai-sam-altman-warns-ai-m...
by estearum | 2025-09-27 20:06:03+00:00
IMO there seems to be more consensus among even the biggest hypemen that this is a bubble. But to protect their bag (and their LP money) they have to find some way that the silly investments they made weren't totally irresponsible.

So here's the line of thinking we'll see more of:

"Yes it's a bubble, but so were the railroads, and yet plenty of people made out big time! The railroads themselves were left over and hugely valuable!"

Then the slightly more astute observer would say, well hold on, that's not quite analogous because the depreciation on AI buildout is way faster than in railroads.

Then the even more astute observer would say, even that downplays the stupidity: the actual value creation from railroads was in the land itself.

There is no analogous dynamic in AI-land, and so will probably be far more broadly catastrophic to the bubble blowers.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-27 20:06:21+00:00
> You can sit them down and explain precisely why buying something, like a new car, is a bad financial decision and that they cannot afford it anyway, and then watch them go buy it anyway. To the point where I have seen people laugh about how dumb of an idea it is, while in the act of doing it.

And this is actually fine because it comes with its own integrated stupidity penalty. We only need the government to impose a penalty if the person who needs the disincentive when making a decision is different than the person being affected by it.
by cb321 | 2025-09-27 20:06:41+00:00
I actually noticed that other comment you mentioned and almost said something at that time. The style is just not mentioned much and Python is about 1000x more well known than other offside-rule PLangs like Haskell. There are also enough exceptions, in Nim at least, that a true bracy fan would have at least some disappointments here & there.

In general Nim's syntax affords much, much more choice than Python, from UFCS to user-defined operators to macros to term re-writing macros to etc., etc. It's really a step up from Python in so many ways with a lot of compile-time checking and safety and essentially the same perf as C++. It's a shame it's not a little more popular.
by allenu | 2025-09-27 20:06:42+00:00
You're right, I forgot about the Pi 500 which was already that price. Still, it doesn't answer my question about who this is for.

Is their strategy to branch out to more premium prices? Did they see enough uptake of the Pi 500 that they figured there's enough of a niche to want to pay $200 for a bit more?

It's just interesting to me that they started out making cheap little educational devices that were great for the price and now they're making $200 devices. I understand there's a profit-making side to Raspberry Pi now that they're not strictly just a charity, so this must be some long-term bet.
by notatoad | 2025-09-27 20:08:53+00:00
technically samsung didn't buy these brands, Harman did. And samsung has owned Harman (including JBL and AKG) since 2018.

so you should probably expect that these brands will continue operating the way that Harman, JBL,and AKG have since they were acquired. which is to say, pretty independently of anything samsung does.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-27 20:09:01+00:00
> There they've gone a long way up in TCO without an equivalent feature/performance differentiation over the competition to show for it.

Yet they’re still selling out quickly and it can still be hard to find the model you want without shopping different distributors.

I think people like you who comparison shop based on the specs in a table don’t realize you’re simply not the target market. The target market will take the better ecosystem, support, and documentation even if it comes with less performance.

The people who want the fastest SBC and don’t mind spending a day or week chasing the right kernel fork to solve their problem are not the target audience.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-09-27 20:09:14+00:00
There's no way for evolution to read the history of how an organism responded to something and codify it into an instinct. All it can operate on is whether the organism reproduced. If a tendency to mull things over made the organism survive, that's what gets codified, not the actions it chose.

The whole advantage of thinking is being able to select adaptive responses to situations that change too rapidly for evolution to ever hard code as instincts.
by jdlshore | 2025-09-27 20:09:51+00:00
I think you’re going to need to back that up in order for me to take your claim seriously. I’ve always found Nate Silver to be opinionated, sure, but with opinions based on data.

(To be clear, I’m not disputing that Silver thinks BlueSky is failing—I’ll take your word for that—I’m disputing that he’s doing so because he had an axe to grind rather than data backing him up.)
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-27 20:09:56+00:00
> Yes, but it does refer to something observable.

“Observation” in science means testable. You were talking about perception earlier and that’s not the same thing as being scientifically observable.

We don’t directly observe particles “spin”. We crunch petabytes of statistics from experiments and generate new maths to fit the results.

> No—it's still coherent with the observable universe.

No it isn’t. We’ve had to invent dark matter, dark energy and dark flow to make our observations match the maths.

We can’t even figure out the maths behind gravity at a quantum level.

So much of quantum mechanics is still uncertain literally because it’s beyond our perception.

> time before time is just gobbledigook

You’re talking about time as a global constant (to borrow a phrase from software development) but that’s not how time behaves at all.

In a multiverse, time would just be a local variable for each universe.

This isn’t “gobbledigook” it’s just another hypothesis derived from the same mathematical principles.

———

To be clear, I’m not saying you’re wrong about your assumptions of the universe (we simply don’t know). Just that the reasoning you’ve used to derive those assumptions are.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-27 20:10:37+00:00
No Datadome Javascript:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/britain-to-introduce-c...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1Nmgi0...
by jjav | 2025-09-27 20:11:07+00:00
This mostly falls under "Accessible", but want to highlight how incredibly limited the UI is in every proprietary messaging platform. One is forced to interact with it in just one way and it's inevitably missing tons of functionality.

With email, there can be no limits because it is an open standard.

One can pick whichever MUA (email client) one prefers or trivially switch betwen multiple ones without any loss of data.

But even more importantly, if one has custom needs or preferences, that is also easy. All my incoming email goes first through procmail where I can apply various filters and labels and can sort it into different folders and priorities on completely custom criteria that fits what I want.
by OptionX | 2025-09-27 20:11:18+00:00
And we have decades of hindsight with sql injection to work with and make it obvious. No so much with all the fancy new AI tools.

Yes MCP has next to no security features, but then again is it even a year old at this point?

Not excusing it just pointing out something folks should me mindful of when using tool based on it, its an immature system.

And heck, I still remember a time when most of the internet traffic just flew around in plain text. Insanity to us now.
by gpm | 2025-09-27 20:11:26+00:00
As a Canadian I really can't imagine why we would be a better country for Greenland to be part of then Denmark. Unlike Denmark (and the other nordic countries) we don't have any historical connection to it... nor is it part of our landmass, or really anything else other than vaguely near by.

We're also really not interested in annexing random things.
by kordlessagain | 2025-09-27 20:12:18+00:00
This is the comment on here that matters. Supply chain attacks happen all the time. Malicious PyPI packages being one classic example.

This is not about how stupid MCP is, it's about how stupid people can be. And anyone mucking about with agentic workflows, through contractors or not, should be responsible for the code their machines run. Period.
by curl-up | 2025-09-27 20:15:07+00:00
> The first thing you notice when you land in Greenland is there are no trees or grass. There is snow and then there is exposed rock.

This is only true of the area around the airport. Even his pictures further into the article show how misleading this description is. I was actually very surprised how little snow/ice there was. Now when I think of Greenland, I think of something similar to [1].

Of course, in the winter, it's a completely different story (I was there in July). But he was there during the warm period as well (as is obvious from his photos).

> The city itself sits in a landscape so dramatically inhospitable it makes the surface of Mars look cozy.

If you look at a map, you will notice that Nuuk is at the same latitude as Reykjavik. There's a common meme about Iceland being green and Greenland being icy, and that's definitely true if you compare inland or northern Greenland with Iceland during summer (during winter, both are icy and dark), but hiking around Nuuk is a very "green" experience. Yes, there's a ton of mosquitoes, but nature itself is very inviting. I did not get any of the "inhospitable" vibes he mentions.

> But again even riding the bus around it is impossible to escape the feeling that this is a fundamentally hostile to human life place. The sun is bright and during the summer its pretty hot, with my skin feeling like it was starting the burn pretty much the second it was exposed to the light. It's hard to even dress for, with layers of sunscreen, bug spray and then something warm on top if you suddenly got cold.

This whole section is just overblown BS.

All in all, I enjoyed it a lot. Compared to Iceland, it's definitely a lot less "user friendly" and you need to prepare better, but I have never been to a place that is less affected by humans, and in our age, that is something worth experiencing.

[1] https://truewindhealingtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08...
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-27 20:15:30+00:00
But these are not children, and they were not just handed a gun. They went out and acquired one.

That is what astounds me. How one can come into possession of a gun completely without understanding that it is dangerous. How fundamentally the worlds I and they live in must be for that to happen.

Oh, now that I write it out like that, I've definitely been on the other side of that astoundment before, for lacking 'common sense'. Ain't that just the way.
X and my skin colour and discrimination
by akeil-zarudny | 2025-09-27 20:15:39+00:00
I woke up today with functional neurological disorder fndhope.org. I am Jamaican and Ukrainian so I look like I got a great tan. I went to Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto as a History major. I like many am still not finding employment easily today. I go onto x.com and find that Muslims on Musk's account are being labelled as rapists. This concerns me given my skin condition lol. And apparently now border control is using AI to scan people's faces with data-sets trained on x.com. Does anyone here know what is going on better than I do? I'm scared for my life. I live in forest-hill Toronto with my parents and brother.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-27 20:16:19+00:00
I hate that web-enshittification of SSH is considered the solution to this problem, and many other modern application-level problems.

It's done because the web stack exists and is understood by the web/infrastructure folks, not because it represents any kind of local design optima in the non-web space.

Using the web stack draws in a huge number of dependencies on protocols and standards that are not just very complex, but far more complex than necessary for a non-web environment, because they were designed around the constraints and priorities of the web stack. Complicated, lax, text-based formats easily parsed by javascript and safe to encode in headers/json/query parameters/etc, but a pain to implement anywhere else.

Work-arounds (origin checks, CORS, etc) for the security issues inherent in untrusted browsers/javascript being able to make network connections/etc.

We'be been using kerberos and/or fetching SSH keys out of an LDAP directory to solve this problem for literal decades, and it worked fine, but if that won't cut it, solving the SSH certificate tooling problem would be a MUCH lighter-weight solution here than adopting OAuth and having to tie your ssh(1) client implementation to a goddamn web browser.
by jjav | 2025-09-27 20:16:27+00:00
> "1. Mailing lists require no special software" is utter bullshit.

Proprietary mediums require and are limited to specific software with limitied functionality, whether in the form or a specific application, or a web interface that only works one way and is missing most functionality.

With email I run whatever email client I like best and can filter, sort, thread, etc just the way I want.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-09-27 20:16:56+00:00
"Right now, on a Saturday night, where is there an all-ages music show going on anywhere in the US where the kids in the pit are 14, 15 years old and no adult knows or cares that they're there?"

I used to go to those kinds of shows in my late teens. For what it's worth, I mostly am out of that because a) I like calmer music and b) the kids should have their own space.

But that doesn't mean that I don't run into small all-ages punk shows. There's usually one going on in Durango, CO a couple weekends a month that I have seen. I'm certain that in larger places the same thing is happening even though I don't know about them.

Consider that older folks not knowing about the show is kind of the sine qua non of what you're looking for, so I am no surprised that I, an "older folk", don't know about them.

But I know enough to know they are there. It's easy to find new music if you're looking for it.

Maybe go read or review Hesse's "Journey to the East" if you want a longer version of what I am getting at.
by MBCook | 2025-09-27 20:17:03+00:00
I can’t wait to see the numbers from the next M-series chip that integrates these core designs.

I don’t know if that will be the M5 or M6 series but with active cooling and wall/big battery power I bet it will be impressive.

And a pro/ultra variant with lots of cores might post some very nice multi core numbers.

Way to go Apple. That’s a great accomplishment.
by xg15 | 2025-09-27 20:17:39+00:00
How do you know you're getting "most" of the benefits? Data collection for most proprietary apps and websites is still extremely hard to monitor and as long as it's still a primary source of revenue, I don't think the businesses behind them will give up the data without a fight. So I don't think using an ad blocker or relying on the service's own privacy settings will work here.

On the other hand, some of the "simple" recommendations are hard to follow in practice, especially "get rid of whatsapp". Right now, I have 5 messengers on my phone, both Signal and WhatsApp among them. Not because I particularly like them, but because those are the apps that the people I want - or have - to talk to are using. The network effect is real. For messaging apps, the choice of which apps to use is effectively a group decision, nothing that users can decide on their own.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-09-27 20:17:46+00:00
If you can charge at home, they’re an amazing deal. I think the vast majority of households with n >= 2 cars would be best served by [1..n-1] of them being an EV.

Even a ten year old Leaf for $4k is still useful to soak up the around-town driving that an average family does most of their miles in.
by yongjik | 2025-09-27 20:17:48+00:00
I won't say the governmental fingerprint DB is great for liberty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's largely inconsequential.

Case in point: South Korea. It has the total fingerprint DB of every adult citizen. Has been so for decades. Doesn't really affect people's freedom except in the abstract sense of "I don't like it when the government knows too much about me" way. Didn't even stop citizens from organizing mass protests when our president was stupid enough to declare martial law last year.

There are usual suspects that pose much bigger threats to democracy: things like income inequality, failing education, social network doing its things, media colluding with mega corporations, the usual stuff. Fingerprints may make a nice Hollywood SF thriller but that's about it.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-27 20:18:24+00:00
There are much better articles addressing this topic. The good ones generally reference this study: https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/

Given that you can expect to get well over 200,000 miles and/or 20 years out of a large liquid cooled EV battery, there are some screaming good deals out there.
by johnea | 2025-09-27 20:18:30+00:00
tl;dr Yes! They're a good deal!

I know some people who bought one of those little electric "golf cart" like vehicles to drive around the neighborhood.

It seems these cost between $15K and $30K!

I paid $15K for a used Nissan Leaf, with 150 miles of range, and a bit of the factory warranty still in effect.

Personally, I don't see why the Leaf gets such a bad rap. I would like more range than 150 miles, but this much serves all of my typical driving (including freeway, which the golf carts can't do at all).

The EV acceleration (and one-pedal driving) are awesome. No internal combustion vehicle can ever match the performance of an EV.

My expectation is that the overwhelming majority of people drive less than 150 miles the overwhelming majority of the times they leave the house, i.e. they almost never need the gas provided range.

I do still have a gasoline van that I use during long distance travel, but this is once or twice a year.

I think the overwhelming majority of objections only exist between the objector's ears.

I always charge in the driveway, and haven't bought gas in over 6 months.

Try it, you'll like it...
by curl-up | 2025-09-27 20:18:34+00:00
I tried explaining in the other comment here. In summary, it's beautiful, raw nature, that's different from anything else I've seen. It takes some preparation, but I haven't experience any of these "sun will kill you and ice will kill you too" vibes that the article suggests. It felt like one of the last places on Earth not affected by humans (at least directly through resource exploitation, as it definitely is affected by the warming - but that's another discussion).
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-27 20:18:40+00:00
The president (I'm assuming you mean by way of the justice department) doesn't always do a good job.

The court's opinion is lack of standing due to lack of harm because the law wasn't enforced and unlikely enforced. They can have this opinion even if the law is supposed to be enforced.

A requirement isn't invalid because it's not always followed.