MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 22:08:27+00:00
It is even deeper than that. The problem is that voters do not have faith in the organizations created to oversee and regulate government waste. Perhaps there isn't enough visibility. Or maybe the typical shenanigans that commenters love to harp on hides the actual good work that public servants sometimes do in managing the public purse.

So as with most political challenges, it all comes down to trust, and a failure to garner it.

The lack of trust then creates the vaccuum into which silly notions of thinking a coffee cup is worth a grand, or an ashtray is tens of thousands of dollars, or the magic hammer that is the same as a normal hammer but costs 100x, or whatever.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-18 22:08:45+00:00
A refrigerator should be an insulated box with the following electrical items: a thermostat, an interior light wired to a door switch, and a compressor motor activated by a contactor that is wired to the thermostat, and I think you need a timing relay to prevent the compressor from cycling too much. Refrigerators are dead simple, it’s the items I just listed plus two heat exchangers, an expansion valve, piping, and refrigerant.

Variable speed motors are icing on the cake that reduce operating costs so I’ll allow for that. What I just described is true for every single commercial refrigerator available for sale, homeowners have absolute garbage to pick from for appliances.

Who are the psychopaths buying refrigerators with screens? Please stop, you’re ruining things for the rest of us. I know Speed Queen exists if you want sane appliances for laundry, but I’d like to know the brands for laundry and kitchen appliances that are well made and not full of insane garbage nobody asked for like screens.
by achierius | 2025-09-18 22:08:55+00:00
Isn't this (covenants that basically have dead people in their graves reaching out to smite living people) exactly what the dead hand rule was created to prevent? This was a major part of the "defeudalization" that took place between the 17th-19th centuries in most of western Europe, as before then the nobility would entail their estates so as to keep them whole in the senior male line. It does allow for limited postmortem control, but practically not more than one human lifespan thereafter.

C.f. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
by prmph | 2025-09-18 22:09:38+00:00
Wow, just goes to show how different people's perception can be. To me Gnome is ugly, I really tried to like it but just could not. Didn't work too well for me also, but no way I'd describe Gnome as nice looking. KDE has been the only DE that does not give me that subliminal feeling of being grainy and crummy in the way that many people have associated with Linux UI since the beginning.
by autoexec | 2025-09-18 22:09:42+00:00
I'd be willing to bet that there's some percentage of people who don't have ADHD, but they're also not capable of adapting to and meeting the unnatural demands school and work place on everyone and so they struggle in those environments where most people don't. ADHD medication still helps them overcome that difficultly and those medications can make a huge positive impact on their lives as a result. I'm okay with that.

Maybe we should have a different diagnosis for those kinds of people entirely and leave ADHD to the folks who couldn't accomplish what they wanted to do even if they never had to work, go to school, or follow a schedule set by another person. In the end though, what you call it doesn't matter. Both situations are thankfully improved through the use of the same types of medications. Medications which are pretty safe and can mean the difference between being able to support yourself or failing to.

I'm okay with a wider spectrum of people falling under the ADHD umbrella even if some of them don't like being lumped in with people who really do have an executive function disorder. Odds are good those people wouldn't like whatever new label doctors came up with to describe them either. It'll pretty much always carry negative connotations because ultimately, it means that you don't have it in you to do what most people are able to do just fine.
by neuralkoi | 2025-09-18 22:10:30+00:00
Depression and lack of motivation is a signal. It means you're on a path which is not making you feel fulfilled.

As a rando on the internet, your idea to take an old fashioned working class job while you find small gigs or side projects in an area of your interest seems better than getting stuck in a soul-crushing corporate job. That way at least you maintain your sense of agency, and having a sense of agency makes at least me feel more fulfilled.
by mrandish | 2025-09-18 22:10:59+00:00
Now that I'm pushing 60 it's clear my relative perception of tones has shifted somewhat. Although I've had no reason to have my hearing formally tested, as someone involved in video and audio production (as well as being a long-time home theater enthusiast), I have enough digital media samples with which I'm intimately familiar I can tell the sound I'm hearing has shifted from what it once was.

I've been thinking about trying one of those mobile phone apps which give you a test of different frequencies and then provides and EQ preset to correct signals (as much as possible). This seems like a good idea and conceptually no different than the hardware I use to create screen profiles for displays and the calibrated microphone I use to adjust my home theater. However, I haven't done it yet because so far I've yet to find any tool that discloses much technical detail about it's doing and how. Being familiar with high-end audio DSP processing from the production side, I'd like visibility into what it's doing so I can assess how much theoretical support and/or rigor there is behind it. Would love any suggestions...
by ruuda | 2025-09-18 22:11:08+00:00
I’ve toyed with Cue, but never in a production setting. I like the ideas behind it, it’s very elegant that the same mechanism enables constraining values and reducing boilerplate. It’s somewhat limited compared to Jsonnet, RCL, Dhall, etc., you don’t get user-defined functions, but the flip side of that is that when you see something being defined, you can be confident that it ends up in the output like that, that it’s not just an input to a series of intractable transformations. I haven’t used it in large enough settings to get a feeling for how much that matters. Also, I find the syntax a bit ugly.

We did a prototype at work to try different configuration languages for our main IaC repository, and Cue was the one I got furthest with, but we ended up just using Python to configure things. Python is not that bad for this: the syntax is light, you get types, IDE/language server support, a full language. One downside is that it’s difficult to inspect a single piece of configuration, you run the entry point and it generates everything.

As for RCL, I use it almost daily as a jq replacement with easier to remember syntax. I also use it in some repositories to generate GitHub Actions workflows, and to keep the version numbers in sync across Cargo.toml files in a repository. I’m very pleased with it, but of course I am biased :-)
by jacobgkau | 2025-09-18 22:11:23+00:00
To be fair, he just said it's a fireable offense-- presumably (and according to the article he linked) to use the tools for people you don't know at all, not just to take money for it. (It's probably easier for Meta to prove an employee used the recovery tool than to prove they received money for it.) I do hope you get your account back, though.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-18 22:11:34+00:00
>Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

These were one thing, The New Deal. Done by Democrats who had 90% control of congress, a hyper popular president, and 1 out of every 5 Americans was jobless. When the Supreme Court threatened to push back on The New Deal, FDR threatened that he could pack the court, and that threat carried weight because he actually had the congress to do so, and the public would have been on his side as well. The public wanted The New Deal.

Then the Progressive Democrats got big support on the Civil Rights bill. That support was also used to force, through Federal power, a bunch of sourthern states to stop segregation and other literal racist bullshit. Many federal politicians blamed that on the Democrat party (which is untrue, both support and opposition to the Civil Rights act were bipartisan), and southern states have largely voted Republican since.

Then Carter's "Lets do clean energy and a strong environment and do the hard things to make a good nation" were so thoroughly rejected by the American public that it is considered a huge political realignment, and the Democrat party responded by giving up, and adopting neoliberal policies because they were so fucking popular with the public, that they might as well get rich and elected.

As a result, the Clinton years got us the damn Crime Bill. We also got the Nutrition Facts panel on food, and that thing is awesome in ways I think most people don't realize.

Then, when Obama came close to having real power in congress, we got the ACA.

If you want to see this nation do things, give the people who want to build things actual power. Give the Democrats actual damn power. Not "President and half of one house of congress". That's not how power works in the US system when you are following the rules.

If the Democrats got 60 senators, 400 reps, and the president, maaaybe then they could get something done, but even then, the Supreme Court could trivially stop anything they tried to do.

This is all intentional. It's how the American system was purposely designed. It's hard to build things on purpose.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-18 22:12:16+00:00
Very well done! Congrats.

I'm also in the wearables space, though neurotech/sleeptech.

I'm assuming you did 3d printed enclosures, so really board design and was the longest process.

What I think is really clever about your design is passthrough USB-C and then not needing your own battery. So essentially you've got a micro, probably with it's own memory?

So elegant.

Others are saying you must have had your Taiwan contacts beforehand, but even without that, two weeks for board manufacturing isn't unrealistic I'd think, even for a noob, and lucky for you the board design should have been pretty simple.

Can I ask what your experience going through YC as a consumer hardware founder was like?

If you're curious about what we're building, we're enhancing the restorative function of sleep, without altering sleep time. Check out https://affectablesleep.com
by andrew_eu | 2025-09-18 22:12:17+00:00
I've used probably 15 or 20 web browsers in my lifetime and all of them had the same barely searchable table of URLs as their only history view. Why couldn't we have full text search of the pages, or a view that reflects tab histories as some kind of graph, or UIs that support any kind of sorting? Instead it's 2025 and the solution is to attach an LLM slot machine to the front and drive engagement.

I'd be very open to any Firefox extension suggestions (or standalone applications that can consume a Firefox history) that makes it more searchable. I don't often need to search my browser history, but when I do the answer is rarely easy to find.

All of the other features look like a high potential for abuse, but with lots of glitz to make it seem essential to laymen.
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 22:12:17+00:00
"Difficult to dispose of and has no use" is the very definition of a tailings pond, and you'll find them all over the place if you care to look. Environmental catastrophies are happening all over the globe on a massive scale. My point is exactly that; yeah it's toxic, but so is basically every mine and many oil refineries too. Check out the rate of cancer around coal mines or refining hubs, you might be surprised.
by goloroden | 2025-09-18 22:13:00+00:00
Hi there,

I’m one of the creators of EventSourcingDB, and the CTO of the native web (the company behind EventSourcingDB).

Because of ongoing legal investigations I can’t comment any further, but I’d like to provide you with some links, so you can see for yourself:

https://www.eventsourcingdb.io

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io

https://hub.docker.com/r/thenativeweb/eventsourcingdb

https://www.cqrs.com

https://www.eventsourcing.ai
by jggube | 2025-09-18 22:13:07+00:00
Yeah, you'd have to enforce very strict nesting rules in the document structure, which is impractical, especially for more complicated, multi-user web apps. Classes provide flexibility and atomicity.

> What’s the advantage of [shape-type="1"] over .shape-type-1? In terms of CSS selector performance, classes are often faster than custom attributes, so I also don't know if there are any advantages in this particular use-case.
by ajross | 2025-09-18 22:14:41+00:00
See... that's the scam. You have in your mind a "They" that doesn't actually correspond to real people. Seriously: name the three "most wanted" antifa offenders you want to see jailed under this order. Can you name even one person that you think qualifies? Don't you think that's a little suspicious?

What this order is actually going to be used for is to indiscriminately jail protestors of any kind. And the point of that is to eliminate protest in general. Sure sure, you're imagining buildings on fire and the arsonists in chains. But what this is really designed to prevent is the March on Washington.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-09-18 22:16:06+00:00
> Not sure I understand this.

Imagine that you open the video on one tab, see where the ad IN MIDDLE of the video is (e.g. because of a system like Sponsorblock, other users reported it), click on progress bar to go after the ad, the system is probably smart enough to show the ad anyway - OK, you mute the ad, and open the same video again, and watch it from the beginning. By the time you get to the ad, you can switch to the other tab, where the ad already played.

Of course it wouldn't work if the ad was at the beginning.
Ask HN: How would you lint natural-language specs before LLMs run them?
by ceyhunkazel | 2025-09-18 22:16:24+00:00
We lint code before execution—what’s the practical equivalent for natural-language specs before an LLM/agent runs them? I’m not looking for “NL ≠ code” debates; I’m after concrete designs, rules, and tooling that catch mistakes pre-execution.
by cyanydeez | 2025-09-18 22:16:32+00:00
Doubtful. Far right violence "knows" christ just as well as the atheist and anchoring it in a symbol that's already fractured, is just painting nihilism with random paints that are just as nihilistic.

Think of nihilism like all the colors in the visible spectrum, but instead of creating white, they create black because they're physically constrained, not metaphorically.

As such, every figure associated with every religion once disassociative will _never_ be anything but an anchor for nihilism because of the natural deviations of man's desire to align god's intentions with one's actions, ad hoc.
by tjs8rj | 2025-09-18 22:16:55+00:00
AI and technology is already replacing jobs.

The way this manifests isn’t mass layoffs after an AI is implemented, it’s fewer people being hired at any given scale because you can go further with fewer people.

Companies making billions in revenue with under 10k employees, some under 5k or even under 1k.

This is absorbed by there being more and more opportunities because the cost of starting a new company and getting revenue decreases too as labor productivity increases.

Jobs that would otherwise exist get replaced. Jobs at companies that otherwise wouldn’t exist get created.

And in the long run until it’s just unprofitable to employ humans (when the max their productivity is worth relative to AI falls below a living wage), humans will continue working side by side with AGI as even relatively unproductive workers (compared to AI) will still be net productive.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-18 22:18:01+00:00
There’s a development in the works near me that is I think more along the lines of what the OP is thinking. A developer assembled around 1000 acres of farmland and proposes to build housing with half the land being open space. There are no amenities planned, however the houses will be grouped into “dense” clusters with paths through and around them. The paths will count as open space and are going to be owned by our county forest preserve agency, who will be building and maintaining that part.

The interesting part is that the agreement is that the county will be buying about 400 contiguous acres and then the housing clusters will be placed in 500 of the remaining 600 acres, with the 100 acres weaving in and out donated once they do the platting. They’re pretty far along in the process, with zoning and approvals in place. There are still a few unresolved technical issues that could derail the whole thing, yet we are less than one month away from signing the agreement that will irrevocably force them to sell the 400 acres. I’m excited to reach that milestone and after that won’t care at all if the project falls through (the remaining land revert to agriculture zoning and a future developer has to start over from the very beginning).
by ekuck | 2025-09-18 22:18:04+00:00
We wrote up a fun little project where you make a light-up caterpillar using conductive dough, a 9V battery, and LEDs. It’s simple enough for kids to build (and safe with supervision), but still highlights core electronics concepts like polarity, circuits, and conductivity.

The post includes step-by-step instructions, photos, and some notes on why the dough works as a conductor. We think it's a fun way to introduce kids to electronics or just to play around with a squishy medium for prototyping.
by sky2224 | 2025-09-18 22:18:10+00:00
Here's a conversation using ChatGPT Study Mode I had a little bit ago covering Linear Algebra concepts that I wanted to learn. The concepts that were gone over in this chat aren't the most complicated, but I think you might find it interesting to look over since I think it actually does show we'll likely reach the level you're seeking. This conversation is with 4o shortly before the GPT-5.0 rollout, which is why it's a little less concise and more emotive.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68cc844a-14d4-8009-88e3-53f5d781b5...
by HocusLocus | 2025-09-18 22:18:26+00:00
Modern equalizers on screen are most often parodies of the original they were designed from. How can you get excited about photorealism and shiny looking knobs and 'skins' when it's 'grab with grabber hand, hold mouse and lift or lower then drop' 30 times? Like a dumb child's simulation game.

I love EQs with many bands. In the real world I used to drag across the row of sliders with the knobs between two fingers setting a general curve during the first second of a song... in a single motion. Without looking. Graphic designers want rectangular EQ knobs. DJs want round ones. I wanted to manufacture round ones with spinnable outsides to max the speed of the curve-swipe.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-09-18 22:19:14+00:00
The Kotaku article on this had a really nice final zinger[0]:

> Oh, and here’s Jack Mancuso making a Korean-inspired steak sauce in 2023.

> https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn248pLDoZY/?utm_source=ig_em...

0: https://kotaku.com/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-korean-steak-sauc...
by a5c11 | 2025-09-18 22:19:29+00:00
Back when the internet was a nice place, I mean years 1999-2010, it was full of websites managed by individuals. Each site was different, some were pretty-hideous, quite frequently with unusual knowledge and curiosities. It was so much fun to Google them (Google was a damn good search engine back then too). Most people knew how to use FTP to upload a basic HTML page.

Now it's an expert level knowledge, especially amongst younger generation. Private websites are nearly extinct, thanks to (and not only) Google and SEO cancer.

Corporations like Meta are scared of people taking control over their own data, so they put lots of effort into making the content creation process as brainless as possible.
by codedokode | 2025-09-18 22:19:53+00:00
> Basically, video memory could be gone after Suspend/Resume, VT-Switch and so on.

This actually makes sense: for example, a new task has swapped out previous task's data, or host and guest are sharing the GPU and pushing each others data away. I don't understand why this is not a part of GPU-related standards.

As for solution, discarding all the GPU data after resume won't help? Or keeping the data in the system RAM.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-18 22:22:13+00:00
I guess this means the system volume is not encrypted with FileVault? It makes total sense, since it’s supposed to be sealed, read-only data, and identical for every macOS installation.

There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to boot all the way up including networking, before requiring the data volume to be decrypted.

I know they do a lot of clever things with overlays too, to make it look like you’re writing to the system partition when you’re actually writing to the data partition. It’s a pretty welcome change if FileVault can just skip encrypting the sealed system volume altogether.
by dingnuts | 2025-09-18 22:22:36+00:00
it's always been a national security issue and I don't understand why it took the election of this chucklefuck to change things

it's the same shit with high fructose corn syrup! everyone hates that shit, why did it take the Great Orange Menace (not to be confused with this website, the other Great Orange Menace) to get companies to realize that?

I know that bringing up HFCS here is a big digression; there are probably better examples. It's just another "broken clock is right twice a day" issue from the current admin that is so obviously popular that I don't understand why it was never an issue before.
by Bender | 2025-09-18 22:23:16+00:00
the US can embargo Windows updates

That's actually a funny and real example. For a long time there was a heat map that showed where the concentration of MSIE 6 was. It was China because every copy of Windows was pirated and may have also had government keys hard coded in the pirated copies. They were locked at the patch level the pirated version was made from and it was impossible to patch it otherwise.

Either way the US has nearly unlimited amounts of rare earth material in raw form. Its just much more expensive and time consuming to process it in the US and US regulations make it even more expensive. China does not follow our environmental laws and we breath the output of that. That's why they are processed in China. Processing it in the US would reduce global pollution for a hefty price.
by __aru | 2025-09-18 22:23:47+00:00
I moved from Gnome to KDE around 2 years ago. I just got tired of Gnome extensions breaking all the time, Gnome not being customizable, no support for AppIndicators, etc.

In my opinion, Gnome's UI feels more visually polished than KDE, but that polish doesn't matter when functionality takes a back seat to it.

One extremely minor complaint I have about KDE is that I wish they'd rename "Dolphin" to something like "KFiles".
by pogue | 2025-09-18 22:25:50+00:00
Oh, I thought maybe I'd made a friend... :'(

Tbh, I'd be curious if it's even recoverable and what triggered the ban. I just got an email out of the blue asking me to fill out a captcha, reply to an SMS and send a selfie. I did all that and just got a reply I had violated "community guidelines" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Since it was a private account I never posted anything on, I was racking my brain what could have possibly got me flagged. All I did was reply to pics of ppl's pets (and sometimes cute girlies). Definitely nothing abusive.

From what I've read, the SMS was used just to automatically block any new account you make.