MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-09-10 07:23:55+00:00
Glamorous Toolkit is a lot more inline with what I'm thinking, being all about custom visualizations, but it's actually one level below where the tooling I want should be.

The issue with Moldable Development is that it adds a substantial additional cost in development time that is then hopefully paid back with much improved debugging and analytics.

That's a tough sell. The sort of tools you see in other engineering domains have tons of custom visualizations and such already built in, for all sorts of domains, even ultra niche ones (like battery design). That's why they can charge so much. Since all that stuff is just there ready to use, the cost is 0 (in effort, they cost a lot of money).

Because GT needs to adapt to all the insane sorts of existing use cases and programming languages, it can't possibly implement all visualizations itself (nor even know what those visualizations should be like).

What I'm thinking of is one level higher, where the entire development experience for a particular domain (which could be very broad) is entirely designed from the ground up with visualization in mind. Enso Analytics is a pretty good example.

GT could be used to build something like that, but is not itself that.
by lukan | 2025-09-10 07:24:34+00:00
Huh? I never read studies about it, but no hypothesis?

I frequently stumbled upon the assumption that a LCD screen is pulsed and flickers and that makes all the difference as E-Ink is more steady. (Artificial lightsources can also flicker, but with reflection it evens out)

In (old?) theory too fast for the eyes to notice, but I surely notice a difference.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 07:25:06+00:00
>> kids in the US are doing active shooter drills and staring at the Ten Commandments. USA! USA! USA!

>Not a thing at public schools (despite some attempts to force it)

>Between this and the prayer comment, I suspect this comment is either exaggerated or mixed with internet anecdotes rather than actual experience.

Actually, it is a thing in Texas. And unfortunately, it's not exaggerated at all.

From Wikipedia[0]:

"S.B. 10 requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments anywhere clearly visible. The law requires the display to be framed or a poster, and include the exact text of the Ten Commandments provided in the law without alternatives. It must also be at least 16 inches (41 cm) wide and 20 inches (51 cm) tall.[13]"

From the office of the Texas Attorney General:

“In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Twisted, radical liberals want to erase Truth, dismantle the solid foundation that America’s success and strength were built upon, and erode the moral fabric of our society. Our nation was founded on the rock of Biblical Truth, and I will not stand by while the far-left attempts to push our country into the sinking sand.”

Senate Bill 11, passed by the Texas Legislature this past regular session, allows school boards to adopt policies setting aside time for voluntary prayer and the reading of the Bible or other religious texts. The law requires that the board of trustees for each ISD in Texas take a record vote on whether to adopt a policy to implement these periods no later than six months after September 1, 2025. Student participation in these periods requires parental consent."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Senate_Bill_10

[1] https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-...

Edit: Fixed typo (nor --> not).
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-10 07:26:36+00:00
Prior art on writing line oriented prose comes from one B. Kernighan, no less! Via this blog post:

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/

> Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging sentences, these precautions simplify any editing you have to do later.

— Brian Kernighan, 1974
by Hilift | 2025-09-10 07:26:49+00:00
The US is a mobility and automobile obsessed society. Walking and cycling are usually associated with exercise or inability to drive due to lack of resources.

Combine that with an obsession to make cars available to anyone, even if they are known dangerous. Look up videos on YouTube of police pursuits in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Michigan. Those aren't exceptions, they are glimpses into a mass pathology. I believe Madison, Wisconsin was tracking multiple police pursuits per day in recent years. The subjects there frequently and deliberately drive on the wrong side of roads to compel the police to terminate the pursuits.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-09-10 07:27:28+00:00
In zero states can you show up at a charter school and say “I live next door, I want to enrol” and be enrolled. That is an enormous difference from public schools that immediately eliminates the most disadvantaged students from the applicant pool.

Moreover, some charter schools require things like parental time volunteering, which eliminates more kids, or introductory essays - they don’t score the essays! They just require it to be done! By horrible coincidence this eliminates more cough lower performing children, who simply never submit a completed application for the lottery, so sad. This definitely happens in multiple states but here’s one specific example:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-charter-app...
by dotdi | 2025-09-10 07:27:53+00:00
I think what happened here is that the target audience are people that do not feel pressure to upgrade to the latest mini every year. They do not look to have the lastest-shiniest-ohlookAI-snapdraxxon22pro phone. Just a phone that is a bit cheaper but gets the job done.

Why would you go from 12 mini to 13 mini, or to the concurrently released SEs if your phone still works?

I am also still holding on to my 13 mini. I would not have upgraded to the 14, 15 or 16mini even if they existed. I will upgrade at some point, and that point is when it either dies, or important apps stop working on the last iOS version supported by the hardware.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-10 07:28:32+00:00
Over 50 published peer-reviewed studies and a decade of research.

https://www.affectablesleep.com/how-it-works

Bottom of the page.

Don't think of it as "sound", this isn't "gentle tones to help you sleep", and it isn't played during a particular "phase" of sleep.

It is specifically targeting individual slow-waves.

Think of it more like applying an electrical stimulation to a muscle while lifting weights, not just pumping heavy music into the gym.

Closed-loop neurostimulation, not neuromodulation.

However, you are 100% correct that overcoming the snake-oil factor is a significant challenge for us.
by obscurette | 2025-09-10 07:30:22+00:00
As someone old (60+) who was a teacher in school and thinking a lot about it:

- It's mostly a cultural shift in the western world – we don't value personal responsibility any more. When I was in school in seventies, it was my responsibility to study no matter what since grade 1. It didn't matter whether I liked a teacher, topic or whatever. It's not the case any more.

- Since nineties there has been a shift in educational sciences and practices from "old school" memorizing as "rote learning" and explicit instruction toward "critical thinking skills". Sounds nice for many, but in practice it doesn't work. Barb Oakley has a wonderful paper about it "The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI"[1].

- Smartphones, social media etc certainly contribute and the rise of LLMs will make it even worse.

[1] - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5250447
by thund | 2025-09-10 07:31:00+00:00
The one I have more vivid memories of is Nokia 8210, pretty small

https://www.businessinsider.com/drug-dealers-are-buying-noki...

https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/gadgets/phones/most-icon...

Yes I forgot about Ericsson, same era.

Funny how these are now classified dumb phones, while they have some odd niche market yet :-)
by c12 | 2025-09-10 07:33:06+00:00
Based upon the recruiters messaging me, if I gave up my remote job for one that required in-office attendance I would get an immediate 30% pay bump.

That would however, demand an hour and half commute each way and that would impact my ability to take my children to school and be involved with family meals. Back when I did have a hour commute each way it was costing me £2,800 a year in fuel, plus £2,220 in parking fees, plus about the same again for lunch out with colleagues.

So yeah, i'd get a 30-40% pay bump, but a large percentage would be consumed by additional costs with no benefit to my performance.
by amatecha | 2025-09-10 07:34:22+00:00
Once I saw Plex required an account even to self-host, it was a no-go for me. Stuff like this is why. (among other reasons, like "why should I go through a 3rd party for something I'm 100% hosting on my own hardware/network")

I've been very happy with Jellyfin FWIW :)
by saagarjha | 2025-09-10 07:34:34+00:00
Google did invest in MTE. In fact you linked to some of their investments that ended up trickling down to Android. The problem is actually shipping this is hard and Google was not able to do it. No, "some in the security community" being loud does not mean it is ready to ship. Google identified several problems that they were not able to solve and thus did not ship it generally.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-09-10 07:34:41+00:00
> JS (...) is designed to support hot reloading

no it's not lol. hmr is an outrageous hack of the language. however, the fact JS can accommodate such shenanigans is really what you mean.

sorry I don't mean to be a pedantic ass. i just think it's fascinating how languages that are "poorly" designed can end up being so damn useful in the future. i think that says something about design.
by bricomaz | 2025-09-10 07:35:11+00:00
Strangely no reference to "the most underrated configuration file" aka .ssh/config (reference is some internal docs I wrote) where you can name hosts whatever you want, define jumphosts to reuse to connect to different servers, specify different private keys and usernames for each host, and transform a monstrosity like

ssh -i ~/.ssh/key_A -o ProxyCommand="ssh -i /very/very/long/directory_name/hidden_somewhere/key_B user_B@jumphost -W %h:%p" user_A@192.168.1.5

into

ssh myserver

And how many knows windoze ships an ssh client (that yes supports .ssh/config) since years?
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-10 07:36:06+00:00
The linked article clearly states the export ban is the result of the US convincing other countries, such as ASML's host country the Netherlands, to join their export controls.

I'm not sure why European countries signed this deal, given that the US still started trade wars a few months later. Maybe they had more faith in the American electorate than they should've had.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-10 07:36:35+00:00
> No matter the current state, boosters believe it will get better

How can it not, tho? Like it can't get worse (at least for the open models. You have them now. The underlying models don't change). So the only obvious answer is they either stagnate, or get better. And a brief look at history shows that nothing truly stagnates.

Keep in mind that we're not even 3 years into this new paradigm. We're still scratching the surface of how we can use these things, that are unreasonably good for being trained for NTP.

That's my main argument against an "AI winter". We have so many things to try that it'll take decades to fully realise all the potential of this tech, even if all research into foundational models would stop now. And it surely won't. There is just too much capital allocated here, and that attracts a lot of smart people working the problem. Yeah, it's reasonable to say things will get better.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-10 07:36:57+00:00
Good.

Curious to see how much of this new arch will actually be adopted by Qualcomm, or whether they will diverge further with their (Nuvia-acquired) Architecture.

Either way, I hope the result is not causing fragmentation in the market (e.g. developers not making use of next-gen ARM features because Qualcomm doesn't support them)
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-10 07:38:14+00:00
I’ve been considering switching to Jellyfin.

I’m getting increasingly frustrated at just how badly Plex behaves for home set ups. Which is the entire point of installing something like Plex.

Most annoying still, I’ve even paid for their premium products in the hope that it would make things behave better and it did not.

The only reason these security incidents happen is because Plex try to extort home users. There isn’t any other compelling reason to have your details on their database with credentials to active installs.
by satyrnein | 2025-09-10 07:38:24+00:00
I think the graph you linked obscures the issue a bit by showing total immigrant population by year, which would change much more slowly than arrivals by year.

I found a graph of arrivals by year here: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-u-s-net-immigration...

It certainly seems to be a big increase under Biden, compared to the last 25 years. Anyway, I personally favor immigration, I just don't want to use statistics to lie to myself either!
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-10 07:38:48+00:00
Thanks to a combination of espionage and homegrown Chinese technology advancements, they went from "decades behind" to "years behind" quite rapidly on several critical parts of the chip manufacturing process.

China isn't quite there yet, but they will catch up. The question then becomes whether China can surpass the west or if they're stuck in lock-step behind us.
by MandieD | 2025-09-10 07:39:07+00:00
We kind of do both in Germany. I say "kind of" becaue that year of parental leave (14 months total, shared between parents as desired) is capped at the lower of 1800 EUR/mo, or 2/3 of previous year's net monthly salary - that was significantly lower than either of our net pay, but we did it anyway.

And once the little guy was a year old, daycare for not quite enough hours to work full time (7am - 4pm) was a mere 500 EUR/mo, and would have been less had we not been a 1.5 engineer couple. It drops to 200 EUR/mo when the kids turn three. For awhile, Bavaria was considering giving a rebate to families who didn't use preschool, but then I think they realized that the people whose minds would be changed by an extra couple hundred Euro per month in their pockets were a lot of the people who this rather conservative state really, really wanted to have send their kids to preschool as soon as possible.

This goes hand in hand with very strong protections for parents choosing to work part time. My employer had to allow me to drop to part time for up to three years (prorated salary, of course), with an option to extend it until my kid is eight.

Result? I'm still working in the same department and position I was before the kid, but spend several hours a day with him.

He took to daycare like a duck to water and still loves preschool; it turns out that my little guy is way more social than either of his parents.
by immibis | 2025-09-10 07:39:54+00:00
> Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company.[1] In many countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information are illegal. The rationale for this prohibition of insider trading differs between countries and regions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
by watwut | 2025-09-10 07:40:00+00:00
3 is very real. Sometimes even openly so, as in an executive telling it out loud.

> And nobody is dumb enough to do RTO as a layoff proxy because anybody with a brain knows you're going to lose the people with options, who are exactly the people you don't want to lose.

Here is what our CEO told me once: layoffs always mean you loose more people then those you just fired. That is unavoidable and can amount to additional 30%. And obviously those will be those with options. He said that you can not avoid nor control this factor, there is no point in overly fretting about it. From his point of view, people always have agency to leave and layoffs and surrounding chaos always annoy people and weaken their ties.

These arguments based on "we do not want to loose good people in layoffs" are off mark. Company will loose good people in layoffs.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-10 07:41:12+00:00
Jesus.

I can rob people one at a time or I can go rob the bank. I can break into your clients one at a time or I can break into your "security" company.

Where is the product that keeps that data, your infrastructure safe? Why arent you selling that. Oh wait there is no such thing as it does not exist.

You are a compromise by a state level actor waiting to happen. In fact if you were compromised by a state level actor it is in your companies best interest to cover it up rather than disclose it (as that would be the end of your organization).

It's the fox guarding the hen house.

At some point were going to find out that a government, China, Russia, India.... used you, or one of your peers doing the same. This is taking off my shoes at the airport levels of stupid and ineffective.

I spend a fair bit of time talking to C-levels. The bulk of them use your services not because they think they are effective but because they know that they can point the finger at you when the shit hits the fan.
by lukan | 2025-09-10 07:41:36+00:00
Erm, just no. I have an old book lying around about Viking, the first mission to the surface of Mars and written before it reached Mars. The book is full of the expectation that they will find life and are rather curious what kind of life. (And the book describes all the instruments and methology)

But no traces of life were found ever.

If there is life on Mars, it is hidden underground in vulcanic active areas and alike and no mission we can do today, could conclude with certainty that there is no life on Mars. But we have been looking real hard.
by conductr | 2025-09-10 07:41:39+00:00
Isn't choosing to engage as a participant in a study more analogous to entering a contract which is also generally deemed inappropriate/invalid while under the influence?

Just saying there's a ton of grey area. I've never taken sex too seriously, meaning if I did something I regretted while impaired, I just shrugged it off. Other people obviously feel sex is a much bigger issue and regrettable situations are absolutely unacceptable to the point where it's their partners fault for somehow knowing how impaired you are, determining whether your consent is valid, etc. I personally don't get it, how it's become victim shaming to expect people to control their own selves. I get that date rape type stuff is very real and tragic but again, lots of grey area between that and regrettable drunk night out type stuff that's way more common. All to say, there exists a wide spectrum of what any given person may feel about this exact subject.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-10 07:42:02+00:00
Apple has implemented synchronous MTE with almost neutral overhead and also mitigated Spectre v1 using a novel technique that I haven't heard of before (which, alas, they don't really go into detail here); what's more, they plan to ship this to (hundreds of) millions of devices. I think these are significant improvements of the state of the art.
by noobermin | 2025-09-10 07:42:05+00:00
I've related this story here before. I was a first year in physics grad school, and my professor told me he heard rumours of students telling each other memorising formulae was a waste of time, and that as a physicist one should just be good at deriving results. The professor scoffed at that and sardonically surmised that may be the person who said that was intentionally trying to stiffle their competition in the class. Memorisation while limited in some ways is a part of the whole in addition to creative and critical thinking. Without facts and ideas in your mind, you have nothing to think criticall about.
by pembrook | 2025-09-10 07:42:26+00:00
Agreed, "culture" is a symptom, not a cause.

All humans are the same species, and in a vacuum, have no ideas or inherent behaviors beyond base instinct.

Culture is simply a byproduct of the environment around a segment of humans.

Hence, filtering by white kids in the US simply measures the result of higher average economic status (same as filtering by Asian kids).

American outcomes would look better if the populations they economically disenfranchised historically stayed in other countries like Europeans did with the colonial system (vs importing populations as slave labor domestically in the US). The economic class stratification that still lingers as a result of this in the US is such a unique factor as to make comparisons that don't take this into account worthless.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-10 07:42:55+00:00
IIUC, display controllers normally iterate rows and columns like a double for loop. The outer loop increments the row counter, inner one increments the column, and the voltage meets at the current pixel at pixels[i * j]. Most LCD controllers don't take pixel(i, j) or pixel[i * j] as the input, but expects a synchronize() signal to reset both counters followed by transfers of either row[width] in rows[height] or pixels[width * height].

The bare panel, for both LCD and EPD, would consist of a pair of glasses vapor coated with transparent indium tin oxide, chemically etched as bunch of horizontal lines on the first one and vertical in the other one, with corresponding choice of fluids suspended inbetween. It would be possible to wire a custom fabricated controller onto those row and column electrodes to drive individual pixels. I guess that is what is being done here.
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-10 07:43:26+00:00
Let me enumerate. Printf survives debugger restarts, shows up in git diff, usually messes less with the timing, can be exchanged with coworkers or deployed to users and be toggled with logging rules, has the full power of the programming language, the output is easier to run "diff" on to compare runs, works in CI containers, has no problems with mixed language environments...

As far as I'm concerned, breakpoints and backtraces, especially of crashes, are the superpower of debuggers. Where they are not immediately applicable, I usually don't bother.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-10 07:43:34+00:00
> in the article

Why on earth would it be? You've lost the thread, this is about djinnandtonic's claims, not what the article says. Here, a quick recap:

1. djinnandtonic: I have no sympathy for the complaining farmers in this article, who are probably ones that cheered a separate chainsawing-bureaucrats event. They willfully chose a cruel mess.

2. NotGMan: Comparing the misfortune of good farmers to the misfortune of bad bureaucrats is unfair.

3. Terr: djinanndtonic wasn't comparing the two groups, djinnandtonic was using that event to to argue that rural farmers' voted for the mess they find themselves in.

4. Kulahan: Which line says farmers are voting that way?

5. Terr: djinanndtonic's line right here about the chainsawing-bureaucrats thing, because it's a reference to [...]

6. Kulahan: OMG THAT LINE ISN'T EVEN IN THE ARTICLE!111

7. Terr: Of course it isn't, because the article wasn't about their vote patterns, that was introduced in the HN comment that NotGMan critiqued. Here's a recap [Recursion Error Detected]