MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nodja | 2025-09-19 15:52:55+00:00
Intel Arc - Intel's dedicated GPUs, each GPU generation has a name in alphabetical order, names are taken from nerd culture.

Alchemist - First gen GPUs A310 GPUs are the low end, A770 are the high end. Powerful hardware for cheap, very spotty software at release. Got fixed up later.

Battlemage - Second gen (current gen), only B570 and B580 GPUs came out. They said weren't gonna release more Battlemage GPUs after these because they wanted to focus on Celestial, but probably went back on it seeing how well the B580 was reviewed and the B770 is due to be released by the end of the year.

Celestial - Next gen GPUs, they were expected for release early 2026. This article claims it was cancelled, but personally I think it's too late to cancel a GPU this late in production. Especially when they basically skipped a generation to get it out faster.
by flowerbreeze | 2025-09-19 15:53:20+00:00
As a user, this is great news. I think that the artificial lock-in to services that have near zero cost of on-boarding and off-boarding is not what nice companies should do.

As an entrepreneur, this is amazing news! This means users can now more easily switch to my superior service.

At least this is how I choose to see it. It seems to encourage healthy competition and I'd rather compete on the service quality and value than the cleverness of my contracts and discounts. I'm sure it will hurt the bottom line of some companies, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-19 15:53:26+00:00
> The guy was at best confused in his ideological leanings. He held midly leftist ideas on some issues and right wing ideas on others, like on gun ownership.

I am wondering how did Jimmy know what his leanings where? It didn't seem like a guess. The language was pretty definite.

I guess someone found his gun ownership views online. I mean besides using a gun to shoot Kirk, which I don't think anyone needs to hold any ideological leanings to acquire a weapon in US. For instance, if I hear of shootings in Chicago overnight, I am not thinking "it's those 2nd amendment nuts again".

> Typical of a young Utah white guy, I'd say.

I'd agree but only if it wasn't shooting someone like Kirk. If some unknown John Doe was killed somewhere in Utah I can see making a guess that it's probably some maga trumper person doing it. And it would still be a wild guess. Here it seems there was more than a wild guess. And common sense would dictate the guess should have been the opposite -- it's someone opposed to Kirk and maga and all that stuff not for it. And it should been emphasized it's a just a wild guess until it becomes more obvious.
by intended | 2025-09-19 15:53:32+00:00
There are exceptions to this rule, and I am sure you are aware that all industries do not have the same ability to change providers, like say telecom.

You are NOT going to be changing houses and care homes very regularly past a certain age.

The animal that you pilot, will simply not have the capability to power through the change, remember every item, keep on top of documents, bills and more. You will not necessarily have friends and family to help you through this.

Going to court is unpleasant, since it will mean you are going to spend the rest of your life fighting. You may count on the fact that some portion of people will be fighters, and willing to sue, but thats statistic is of little comfort if you are the one fighting.
by dmoy | 2025-09-19 15:53:37+00:00
"irreparable harm" in this case is a legal term of art, which sort of translates to "cannot be fixed by *any* amount of money later". If you lose a job for 5 years, work a minimum wage burger flipper job, and then win a $100 million judgement, you're more or less made whole in the eyes of the court.

So losing a grant is probably more along those lines, in the context of "irreparable harm" for an injunction.

You could make the argument (and I'm guessing it was?) that for scientific grants specifically, if the goal isn't money in the first place, and the lack of grant makes a scientific career impossible to fix later even with any amount of money (say grants 10x as large), then maybe you meet "irreparable harm"? I don't know if the courts would buy that.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 15:53:42+00:00
I thought that made them heroes - tbh, I think they thought we would save them from this - ppl don't remember goodwill like that long enough tho - haha, your trying pass it off as shade.

Amazon, the largest profiter of digital book media - they definitely got theirs during the pandemic, you don't actually need to have their back - they profited so much, during and off of, out hard times, to then do this, haha - I'll always back the IA.

I could watch the IA upload the entire series of the expanse to their front page and had no issue at all with that.

Tbh - I think the big corpos should HAVE TO subsidize the IAs existence - with no strings, so they should pay the IA to give away their shit - that is my official position.
by RHSeeger | 2025-09-19 15:53:43+00:00
> But you'd very likely have their number saved on your phone.

I certainly don't. Every call I get from the school seems to come from a different number. And the camp she was at when she hurt her leg and had to be taken for immediate medical attention.

I get it, in your world, in your experience, it all works out. But in mine, it just doesn't. From experience, I _know_ this is true.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-19 15:53:44+00:00
Fun fact, a raspberry pi does not have a built in Real Time Clock with its own battery, so it relies on network clocks to keep the time.

Another fun fact, the network module of the pi is actually connected to the USB bus, so there's some overhead as well as a throughput limitation.

Fun fact, the Pi does not have a power button, relying on software to shut down cleanly. If you lose access to the machine, it's not possible to avoid corrupted states on the disk.

Despite all of this, if you want to self host some website, the raspberry pi is still an amazingly cost effective choice, from anywhere between 2 to 20000 monthly users, one pi will be overprovisioned. And you can even get an absolutely overkill redundant pi as a failover, but still a single pi can reach 365 days of uptime with no problem, and as long as you don't reboot or lose power or lose internet, you can achieve more than a couple of nines of reliability.

But if you are thinking of a third, much less a 10th raspberry pi, you are probably scaling the wrong way, way before you reach the point where a quantity matters ( a third machine), it becomes cost effective to upgrade the quality of your one or two machines.

On the embedded side it's the same story, these are great for prototyping, but you are not going to order 10k and sell them in production, maybe a small 100 test batch? But you will optimize and make your own PCB before a mass batch.
by throwoutway | 2025-09-19 15:53:45+00:00
I agree the article seemed disingenous and almost felt like it was shady (can you believe the EU lets them cancel in a sane way?!). When I hear ARR, I don't think of an annual contract. ARR is equivalent to MRR*12 and can be a mix of contract types or even utility spend ($ per bytes). I understand that "committed spend" is when a business agrees to pay $XX annually, but that's not defined by ARR.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-19 15:53:59+00:00
> the F-35 cannot intercept a MiG-31

The fact is that the F-35 was not designed to be an interceptor fighter jet. Rather, it was designed to use its stealth features, advanced sensors, and long-range missile capabilities to detect and destroy a MiG-31 well before the MiG-31 could even become aware of it. Whether the F-35 is a suitable aircraft for dealing with the aforementioned MiG-31 provocations is another question.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-19 15:54:00+00:00
Sure, here are some to look at :

https://iterm2.com/features.html

I'll just mention some that I have used and found good.

The drop-down visor like Yakuake is great.

Instant Replay is handy for ephemeral text that gets wiped from the terminal, like TUI apps and scaffolding tools. You can imagine that there's always something like Asciinema recording into a buffer, so you can stop and rewind to catch any output you missed.

The notifications are useful.. I can start a long running task, get on with other things, and get a MacOS notification when that terminal rang a bell.

Global search is good, and searches across tabs. I also set a large scrollback buffer, so I can do a reverse incremental search for strings. You can also use the Triggers facility to highlight any string matches (or regex) whenever they occur in the terminal output. This is great when you are tailing a log and want to know immediately when an expression is output, alerting you that a condition has occurred.

Jumping up and down through the command entry points in a session is useful, if there's a lot of output to cut through (I think vscode terminal also does this).

I've also used the toolbelt side-window when I want to repeat verbose commands on a host where I don't want to set up aliases. There is much more you can do with the toolbelt, including automatically capturing text that matches regex patterns.

There's a lot I haven't mentioned, but those are some features I can recall finding useful.
by kllrnohj | 2025-09-19 15:54:13+00:00
Note the E5-2690V4 is a 10 year old CPU, they are talking about used servers. You can find those on ebay or whatever as well as stores specializing in that. Depending on where you live, you might even find them free as they are often considered literal ewaste by the companies decommissioning them.

It also means it performs like a 10 year old server CPU, so those 28 threads are not exactly worth a lot. The geekbench results, for whatever value those are worth, are very mediocre in the context of anything remotely modern: https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2690-...

Like a modern 12-thread 9600x runs absolute circles around it https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-5-9600x
by jdietrich | 2025-09-19 15:54:32+00:00
>Nothing in this Regulation prevents a customer from compensating third-party entities for support in the migration process or parties from agreeing on contracts for data processing services of a fixed duration, including proportionate early termination penalties to cover the early termination of such contracts, in accordance with Union or national law.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-19 15:54:37+00:00
so far, i haven't noticed any performance issues myself. my phone usage is pretty minimal - i don't venture outside of iMessage, feeed, my insulin pump software, a couple of low-requirement games and Orion.

on the other hand, my coworker also has a 15 Pro and he complains that things are slow compared to iOS 18 for him.
by squigz | 2025-09-19 15:54:51+00:00
This has grown into a longer series of misunderstandings than seems necessary. :P

Yes, Discord's behavior with regards to the initial creation of threads is not the same, if I understand you right. To create a thread, one has to explicitly click a New Thread button, OR Discord will prompt you after 2-3 replies in a row to create a thread for that message chain. After that, the thread will show up under the top-level channel, and you can open it up in a sidebar. *

What I meant when I said this is how Discord does it was with regards to how messages are shared - or not, as it is - between the top-level channel and the thread. As I said, I misunderstood earlier comments regarding how this works on other platforms. I really ought to just download Mattermost and check it out :P

* If you're not just talking about specific thread behavior, and indeed have never seen threads at all, you're not alone. They're not very commonly used on Discord, probably because it's not easy to discover them. They're also a relatively new feature.
by RangeLead | 2025-09-19 15:54:57+00:00
While freelancing years ago, most of my work was scraping business data from public sources like Google Maps and Yelp. Clients always wanted the same thing: leads filtered by state, city, or category. It was repetitive, slow, and expensive.

I decided to turn that process into a product. RangeLead is a US-only B2B lead database where you can:

Filter by state, city, category, reviews, website status, ownership tags, and more

Export business emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn, and social profiles

Get verified contacts (99% deliverable) that update daily

I’d love honest feedback from the HN community:

Is this useful for agencies, marketers, or startups looking for their first customers

What features or filters would make it more valuable
by rayiner | 2025-09-19 15:56:02+00:00
The legal system is too complex for your average reporter to understand. They operate at the level of stories rather than systems, rules, allocations of decision making power, etc.

I had a civil procedure professor once explain various federal court procedures in terms of the flow of cases through pipelines, and an evidence professor who explained the rules of evidence in terms of Bayesian statistics. But if you’re smart enough to understand that, you can make a lot more money doing something other than being a reporter.
by aprdm | 2025-09-19 15:56:07+00:00
I guess I met Jeff's work on Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans which is roughly 10 years old.

I then used many of his ansible playbooks on my day to day job, which paid my bills and made my career progress.

I don't check youtube so I didn't know that he was an "youtuber", I do know his other side and how mucH I have leveraged his content/code in my career
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 15:56:10+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly. That's why my heart breaks seeing other countries use the F-35 as an interceptor, presumably because their air force was priced-out of something like the Eurofighter or Rafale. It's in your own airspace, you don't need a highly-survivable stealth platform or 10x sensor loadout. You need a fast interceptor.
by hylaride | 2025-09-19 15:56:12+00:00
The tone around "high taxes" are set by the uber-rich. Hilariously, most of them borrow against their shares to fund their lifestyles (where the interest is tax-deductible!) if they're even still resident in CA.

That being said, California is an ungovernable mess where state-constitutional amendments dictate a huge percentage of taxation and spending. It'd otherwise be a great place to live if real estate prices were somehow brought into line, but alas...
by refulgentis | 2025-09-19 15:56:20+00:00
30% of the corporate blog links on HN the last 4 weeks have mysterious distance from the facts they purport to relay.

Then, they pivot to something vaguely related that is more fun to talk about.

The distance is never closed, and then you're hit by the ur-slop: "That's not X—its Y" and realize where we're at: it used to be a good idea for SEO to write informative blog entries, then it got outsourced from subject matter experts to marketing, then it got delegated to the interns, then the interns got told to use an LLM. And I love LLMs! Just makes me smile and wish for a new way to run links sites.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-19 15:56:35+00:00
> Cisco Umbrella

My current employer was somewhat recently purchased by a large, publicly-traded company and I had this installed on my work machine. Suddenly DoH was forced off by administrator policy and I had to use some specific internal IP for DNS. Which isn't strictly less secure but let's just say I would, even for my large, publicly-traded business, trust Mullvad more than Cisco.
by firefoxd | 2025-09-19 15:56:44+00:00
This is a reminder that the power of Oracle is not in creating great software, it's in having iron clad lawyers and salespeople[0]. I want this to happen and will contribute, but I think there will be a rude awakening when the anvil falls on our heads.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/why-use-oracle-db-today
by RussianCow | 2025-09-19 15:57:50+00:00
The US average hasn't been that low in a few years; according to [0] it's 17.47¢/kWh, and significantly higher in some parts of the country (40+ in Hawaii). And the US has low energy costs relative to most of the rest of the world, so a 3-5x multiplier over that for other countries isn't unreasonable. Plus, energy prices are currently rising and will likely continue to do so over the next few years.

$50/month for 100W continuous usage isn't totally mad, and that could climb even higher over the rest of the decade.
by palmotea | 2025-09-19 15:58:10+00:00
> An answer better than "Do not try to understand it". I don't know how you could justify that answer being appropriate to give to a student.

"Do not try to understand it now," is a perfectly appropriate answer, if the answer is beyond the scope of the class and the lesson is focusing on something else. I would be ideal to identify when that topic would be covered, but it might have to be a hand-wave "in college," because it's quite possible the teacher doesn't actually know the particular "why" question (especially in a subject as empirical as Chemistry).
by mercutio2 | 2025-09-19 15:58:33+00:00
Your googling gave results that were likely accurate for California 4-5 years ago. My average cost per kWh is about 60 cents.

Rates have gone up enormously because the cost of wildfires is falling on ratepayers, not the utility owners.

Regulated monopolies are pretty great, aren’t they? Heads I win, tales you lose.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-19 15:58:36+00:00
Note that many, many animals have non-genetic sex determination. Most fish, amphibians, and reptiles have the same genes for both males and females. Sexual differentiation typically depends on things like the egg temperature or salinity and so on. Some species can even change sex during their adult lifetimes, with external conditions triggering a complex hormonal shift that convert an adult, fertile male into an adult, fertile female.

Having genetic differences between males and females is mostly a bird and mammal thing, at least among vertebrates.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-19 15:58:36+00:00
Fantastic science, very cool discovery. I'm surprised to learn that ant colonies don't really produce males in lab conditions, that must make this research incredibly difficult.

> For M. ibericus, this adaptation ensures they have plenty of workers, which are responsible for many important tasks in a colony

I don't understand this part, though. It doesn't address why it is beneficial for the workers to be hybrids instead of pure M. ibericus. At some point M. ibericus lost the ability to make non-hybrid workers, but that must have happened after.
by ptaffs | 2025-09-19 15:58:45+00:00
So, who loses money here and why aren't they upset? And are they important enough to worry the president. Those of us without stock aren't direct victims here, but someone must be. Bosch is mentioned in one story, I wonder what they're doing. My observation is lots of friends of the president are being forgiven crime, such as the J6ers, who if you believe the documentaries were violent toward the police, but the police aren't minding the pardons?
by pessimizer | 2025-09-19 15:58:45+00:00
If I had to guess, I'd say that the settlement was a lot closer to $41K than one would think, and that's why it's being kept quiet. Otherwise, the labels saw themselves either losing a famous copyright case in the age of LLM threats to copyright, or winning a famous copyright case in an awkward fashion that made people far less sympathetic to them.

People are on copyright holders' side in the battle with LLMs. Either winning or losing this case would be poison.
by walleeee | 2025-09-19 15:58:53+00:00
If basic interventions in public health could widely prevent or improve chronic conditions, would big pharma or big food voluntarily change its business model for the public good?

If wellknown land management practices could cure the decline of soil health, would big ag suddenly change its tune?

I've never been in a physics dept, but the parts of the academy I have seen absolutely would (and do) ignore good work if it's inconvenient or somehow unpalatable. This is of course, though not exclusively, related to the marriage of academy and industry.

No comment on the merit of Wolfram's work.
by nbadg | 2025-09-19 15:59:15+00:00
This is a really clear picture of things, thanks! I am actually originally from the US, but I've been living in the EU for 5ish years and haven't had a car since I gave the one I had in college back to my parents after I moved to the bay area, where public transit was good enough that I couldn't really justify the ongoing expense for something I was just using for grocery runs. Otherwise, I've just been purchasing motorcycles in cash.

I guess I'd never really seriously considered the availability of loans for used cars (beyond the unsecured personal loans); it makes sense that they would exist, but in the ~30 years I lived in the states, I never once heard mention of them, or talked to anyone who had gotten one. Which is pretty crazy if you think about it. I think that, combined with the complete and total lack of regulation surrounding private sales (ie, no way for banks to de-risk the loan), made me assume they just weren't a thing. So I stand corrected.

But I think your anecdote might offer an even more compelling reason why: to satisfy the conditions to actually get one, you find yourself in territory where, from a short-term month-to-month financial perspective, you might as well just be buying new. And if you're struggling to make ends meet... welp, that's that.

The credit score is another good point; it might also be the case that the people who have a good enough credit score to land a decently-priced financing deal on a used car are almost by definition financially capable of buying new. Where I grew up, there was definitely a stigma against buying used, so that seems like it might also have some explanatory power.
by cal85 | 2025-09-19 15:59:18+00:00
The equivalent tailwind is to just put h-8 (or whatever it is) on whichever form elements and buttons you want to be that height. Tailwind recommends you never use `@apply` - it’s basically an escape hatch for weird, niche interop requirements if you’re not all-in on Tailwind.

What is it about your example that the tailwind approach (h-8) doesn’t achieve?
by rubymamis | 2025-09-19 16:00:04+00:00
I wrote the block editor of my note-taking app[1] in QML, I hope this can show it's not QML that makes it a out of place - it's the care for aesthetics that developers put into the app. I also wrote a blog post on the subject if you're curious[2].

[1] https://get-notes.com

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
by entropicdrifter | 2025-09-19 16:00:19+00:00
I commented on Kirk's stance, not the shooter's. I don't endorse political violence.

I just take umbrage with the framing of Charlie Kirk as a moderate. He was a white supremacist. He believed that women shouldn't have the right to vote. He endorsed the state-sponsored execution of LGBTQ+ individuals.

These aren't moderate positions in the modern day, they're the positions of a religious extremist.
by basisword | 2025-09-19 16:00:28+00:00
The only thing this 'kills' is a stupid metric. You can no longer guarantee a customers LTV will be more than two months. So the metric used to try to value these businesses will change a little. Otherwise, if you offer a good product and don't engage in scummy practices to lock people in, you should be unaffected. If you're a scumbag (and unfortunately, there are a lot of them out there) you will need to work a bit harder to maintain your subscribers.
by jleyank | 2025-09-19 16:00:34+00:00
The meat sack can only handle 8-9G’s and only some number of those. So, make missiles and drones that can outdo this and get them to go fast and the problem is reduced. Stealthy and fast might not be possible due to IR, and stealth might not work at all in optical wavelengths with any ambient light.

Ukraine might have demonstrated that smart, smaller weapons will or even have taken over the battlefield. And they brought down a stealth fighter with boring old flak in the Balkans decades ago.