MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kccqzy | 2025-09-19 18:45:11+00:00
A concept of a door is such that if you want to be closed off you can be and if you don't want to be you also have that choice. Having a door to the kitchen is strictly better than having no door. Personally I'd pick a glass sliding door too.

The air quality depends on exactly what you are cooking. Close the door if your cooking involves high heat, open it otherwise. And incidentally I don't understand why the author would do testing while frying an egg. Frying an egg does not involve high heat. High heat means getting close to or past the smoke point of your oil. I would not close the door when frying an egg.
by duskwuff | 2025-09-19 18:45:15+00:00
> Having genetic differences between males and females is mostly a bird and mammal thing, at least among vertebrates.

Also: the configuration and function of sex chromosomes is not consistent even within mammals. There are a number of species - primarily rodents - with unusual sex-determining systems, like species with XX/X0 (i.e. where males have an unpaired X chromosome) or even X0/X0.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8617835/
by kllrnohj | 2025-09-19 18:45:22+00:00
> For 8+ bays you just need a SAS HBA card and one free PCI-E slot. Not to mention that many motherboards will have 6+ SATA ports already.

And what case are you putting them into? What if you want it rack mounted? What about >1gig networking? What if I want a GPU in there to do whisper for home assistant?

Used gaming rigs are great. But used servers also still have loads of value, too. Compute just isn't one of them.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 18:45:31+00:00
Interesting - thanks.

I hadn't really considered the definition of asexually reproducing species - it seems that things are much more clear cut for ones that sexually reproduce since then we can use the more clear cut "point of no return" definition.

I suppose in cases like beefalos and mules, or these ring species, this "point of no return" comes down to is there any path for to the DNA of these divergent animals to recombine, so a fertile female beefalo (or the occasional fertile female mule) still provides that chance.

It seems that in general it's rare for widely divergent animals like zebras and horses to interbreed in the wild, but apparently western wolf-coyote hybrids are not that uncommon, so it's more than just a theoretical possibility. Who knows, maybe global warming will force polar bears to adapt to warmer climates and increasingly interbreed with grizzlies.
by namuol | 2025-09-19 18:46:01+00:00
> A study published last year, for instance, examined medical data from 360,000 light-skinned Brits and found that greater exposure to UV radiation—either from living in Britain’s sunnier southern bits rather than the darker north, or from regularly using sunbeds—was correlated with either a 12% and 15% lower risk, respectively, of dying, even when the raised risk of skin cancer was taken into account.

Emphasis on “may” - this is hardly a gold standard study. Living in sunnier/warmer climates as a proxy for UV exposure as opposed to lifestyle differences afforded by such a climate, regional culture differences, etc. makes all of this very dubious to me.

I’m going to keep wearing my sunscreen most of the time when I need to be in direct sun, and continue regular screening for skin cancer.
by orwin | 2025-09-19 18:46:57+00:00
Exactly. I don't care what semantic games you play. People who argue on semantics are uninteresting most of the time (unless the argument is about history basically, but even in this case, it's often a waste of time).

If someone starts to argue with me and then ask me 'whats the true definition of X', i just tune him out. If he ask me "What did Paxton meant when he used the word 'collaboration' according to you?", then I'll talk with him, because I know he can have interesting and meaningful discussions.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-09-19 18:46:58+00:00
It's not like Android and iOS are the only options exactly.

So I never spend much on phones, but I just got a Fairphone 4 running E/OS , which is .... like running android, except it blocks tracking by default, and you're in control. Some fairphones come with e/os pre-installed, but installing it isn't even all too fiddly, you can do it direct from chrome(ium).

And you can take it apart with your fingers and a screwdriver!

There's hope yet!
by stopachka | 2025-09-19 18:47:10+00:00
Update Sep 19:

Alas, we had to add sign in, and scope sign ins to users with an @gmail.com account.

We got a few trolls who were really motivated to use up as many tokens as possible.

We tried blocking Eastern Europe and Indonesia, but that wasn't enough. Hopefully the sign up will help alleviate this a bit.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-19 18:47:11+00:00
>SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler

Zero of any of that is needed. The new Pi "works best" with a cooler sure but at standard room temps will be fine for serving web apps and custom projects and things. You do not need an SSD. You do not need a HAT for anything.

Apparently the Pi 5 8gb is $120 though WTF.

What personal web site or web app or project can't run just fine on a Pi Zero 2 though? It's a little RAM starved but performance wise it should be sufficient.

Other than second-hand mini PCs, old laptops also make great home servers. They have built in UPS!
by rtkwe | 2025-09-19 18:47:25+00:00
There's still a lot of non mechanized agriculture in the US. Fruits especially are often hand picked. Strawberries in particular can be pretty grueling [0] because they're low to the ground. Even the semi mechanized version has the workers lying on their bellies rapidly picking as the tractor tows their platform along. [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1kqv2yd/pov_manual... pardon the subreddit it was the best video I could find shortly.

[1] https://youtu.be/jmib5b7AhXg?t=24
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-19 18:47:27+00:00
But you are going to find vegans working in a slaughterhouse. Some people prioritise pragmatism over ideological purity. (See https://our-compass.org/2020/06/15/i-worked-undercover-insid... and parts of https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50986683.)
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 18:47:35+00:00
Why? Was Steve Jobs literally the only human who was capable of seeing the massive unserved demand that existed back then?

Sidekick was amazing for its time, but only on one also-ran carrier. BlackBerry had great features like BBM (essentially iMessage) but underpowered for multimedia and more difficult to learn. If Apple was out of business, one or more companies would have made the billions on MP3 players that iPod made, and any of them could have branched into phones and made a splash the same way. Perhaps Sony, perhaps Microsoft. Microsoft eventually figured it out -- the only reason they failed was that they waited for both Apple and Android to become entrenched so in this timeline they could have been the second-mover, but unlike with Apple and Android, maybe neither MS nor Google would have automatically owned the US marketshare the way Apple does[1]. If that were the case, we may have competition, instead of the unhealthy thing we have where Apple just does whatever they want.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...
by washadjeffmad | 2025-09-19 18:47:42+00:00
Universities aren't the lofty, inviolable, autonomous institutions of lore; they're generally immediately dependent on alignment to their local and state governments. The governor (Abbot) would have replaced the BoR, which could and would have fired Welsh for continuing to align with Biden-era policies.

Welsh had been if not "resistant" to the rollback of DEI language and initiatives, then tolerant of them, and there have been campus protests against the current presidency. If the POTUS asks a state governor why they can't keep their people in line, that's going to come down the chain quickly.

These types of signals are not mysterious and complex (although the reporting on these topics tends to be selectively awful), and we often overestimate the subtlety of the politics involved. If Abbot is aligned to his party and the presidency, then he is expected to show he can act if called upon to.

Reprimanding a few faculty and terminating one senior lecturer as proof is worth more than whatever their legal affairs team is going to come up with to get everyone to move on. And Welsh is 71. He's "stepping down" into retirement.
by perching_aix | 2025-09-19 18:48:00+00:00
That's actually an important distinction. You can recapture the DRM protected (and then decoded) video pretty much always indeed, but then you degrade the quality by having to encode it again.

Well, not important to some, but for enthusiasts and people looking to actually archive things, it is very important.

Case in point, hilariously, the last time I used YouTube's video download feature bundled with their Premium offering, I got a way worse quality output than with yt-dlp, which actually ripped the original stream without reencoding it.

I think I saw an idempotent h264 encoder at some point, where you wouldn't suffer generational loss if you matched the encoder settings exactly from run to run. But then you might need the people mastering the content (in this case YouTube) to adopt that same encoder, which they're not going to be "interested" in.
by rixed | 2025-09-19 18:48:26+00:00
At the end of the day, what we have been experienting since the early 2000s is just the industrialisation of software development. 20 years ago it was still a craft and it has become a job. 20 years ago if you needed to do something serious with computers your best bet was to hire a self taught amateur who started working in the video game industry while still in highschool, had build his own 8bits computer and programmed his own operating system as a past-time.

That was not sustainable, the industry needs predictable employees. Even if that means many more of them. "Industrialization" of a process consists of nothing more than splitting that process into smaller, simpler tasks: Front end / back end / system ops / architecture, each split again by technologies, frameworks, languages, etc etc. Gone are the days where you could and needed to know everything.

The workforce increases massively, but since workers no longer need 10 years of intensive practice before being useful they are also cheaper, and most importantly, again : the whole process becomes predictable. You can replace a worker without jeopardizing your business.

The same process happened to many crafts during the industrial revolution, and that spawned similar culture wars between the old gard of craftsmen lamenting the poor quality of the industrial output. Maybe Stallman will be remembered as the Proudhon of our times?

Our times may be a bit more epic, because we were not only craftmen, we were building a new society, or so we though. Computers being machines of logic would help us become more rational, being accessible universal means of production they would blur the distinction between consumers and producers by making everyone a producer, and worldwide networks would turn our divided societies into a global village. Well, in just a few years the oposite happened: the machines locked consumers into walled gardens, greatly reinforced the power structure in place, and made us more divided than ever.

In 20 years from now, very few people will remember how free and powerful we have been.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-19 18:49:04+00:00
> They were equal partners with Woz doing far more of the work

What counts as "the work" and what doesn't such that Jobs did much less of it than Woz?

> People that become billionaires do not care about making things right or fair.

I don't even consider myself, or anyone else, to even be capable of making things right or fair or even knowing what would be "right" and "fair". This is not a remotely simple thing and there is not even a widely agreed upon definition of it. I see no evidence that billionaires care any more or less about this than any other person. And I fundamentally distrust anyone who claims this as a motivation. Mostly those people are just using the word "fair" as a stand in for their personal preferences as to how things should be.

> The early days of tesla/spacex he sold the idea that "you'll change the world!" to undercut the salary of his employees.

Employees in the early days of Tesla made out like bandits on their options, so I find this to be a very strange objection. It's the same tradeoff any engineer at an early stage company makes.
Ask HN: Would you allow an AI to go on most of your dates for you?
by amichail | 2025-09-19 18:49:11+00:00
Dating is expensive, time-consuming, and often… exhausting. What if there were a way to test compatibility before even leaving your couch?

Here’s the idea:

* Your personal AI chatbot learns your personality from your social media writing.

* Instead of going on every date in real life, your chatbot "goes on dates" with other users' chatbots.

* Chats that go well in these AI simulations are then escalated to actual humans, so you only meet people with real potential.

* Basically, AI-simulated conversations filter out the bad dates so you can focus on the good ones — saving time, money, and awkward conversations.

Would you try a service like this?
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-19 18:49:28+00:00
There isn't only one kind of power user, and not every kind of power user will like KDE. I use GNOME almost daily, with KDE being my primary daily driver. I just really don't see how GNOME could ever said to be great for power users. There are so many ways you can tailer KDE to specific things you may find yourself doing heavily, that would be impossible with GNOME's UI. Being a power user and using GNOME, to me just means you're using the terminal for everything, which is totally valid.

Linus also may not even really be a power user. He says himself that he rarely writes code anymore, and primarily just sends emails and reviews code.
by foota | 2025-09-19 18:50:30+00:00
So... The issue is that I'm not using lustre. As far as I can tell, NVME over fabrics (nvme-of) for RDMA is implemented by kernel modules nvmet-rdma and nvme-rdma (the first being for the target). This kernel modules supports infibiband and I think fiber channels, but _not_ EFA, and EFA itself is not an implementation of infiniband. There are user space libraries that paper over these differences when using them for just network transport (E.g., libfabrics) and EFA sorta pretends to be IB, but afaict this is just meant to ease integration at the user space level. Unfortunately, since there's no kernel module support for EFA in the nvme-of kernel modules, it doesn't seem possible to use without lustre. I don't know exactly how they're doing it for lustre clients. There seems to be a lustre client kernel module though, so my guess is that it's in there? The lustre networking module, lnet, does have an EFA integration, but it seems to only be as a network transit. I don't see anything in lustre about nvme-of though, so I'm not sure.

Maybe there's something I'm missing though, and it'll just work if I give it try :)
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-19 18:51:11+00:00
Blame Youtube. They are the ones that run a purposely zero sum and adversarial system for directing attention at your videos. If he doesn't have a high enough click rate on his videos, Youtube will literally stop showing them to people, even subscribers.

Youtube demonstrably wants clickbait titles and thumbnails. They built tooling to automatically A/B test titles and thumbnails for you.

Youtube could fix this and stop it if they want, but that might lose them 1% of business so they never will.

They love that you blame creators for this market dynamic instead of the people who literally create the market dynamic.
by SXX | 2025-09-19 18:51:36+00:00
AFAIK "secretive" SSH agent is not actually running inside SEP when it using the keys. So when keys are actively used they are exposed in main OS RAM and only protected by macOS security model (so are safe unless there is jailbreak / actual root exploit).

So "secretive" and similar software is not as secure as let's say hardware token.

If I'm wrong please correct me, but when I researched the topic I come to this conclusion.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-09-19 18:51:53+00:00
> Depends. At full load? At Irish power prices? Just the Pi, no peripherals, no NVMe? 5 units? €13/mo.

Pretty sure most of us aren't running anywhere close to full load 24/7, but whoa, Irish power is expensive. In the central US I pay $0.14/KWh.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-19 18:52:16+00:00
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth

Javascript was never a good name and if they weren't the defacto option to program the web, they would have never made it. I don't know why deno is so eager to get hold of the JS trademark when they have the perfect unencumbered name right there: denolang.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-19 18:52:45+00:00
Like many people here, I dislike the moralizing aspect, so I tried thinking of it on a more technical perspective. Which led me to the question:

Why are the tabs and URL on my browser on top while the OS bar is on the bottom? It looks like it would work if we flipped it over, in fact, on mobile, it would work better, and it is an option you can set!

Another one: US style power outlets, the one with the ground plug. We always tend to make it look like a little face, with the ground plug at the bottom. Now what if you flip it... it is actually better (i.e. safer)!

And clocks. Why is 12 on top? And why do locks have the pins on top in some parts of the world and on the bottom elsewhere? And numeric keypads, why is "1" on top or on the bottom depending on the situation?. Why do trapezoidal connectors (ex: HDMI) have the long side on top?

Turning things upside down is not just for maps, sometimes if may even help give some bit of insight.
by lapcat | 2025-09-19 18:53:45+00:00
The Tahoe submission was new, relevant, and informative. It was posted on the day that Tahoe was released and includes a list of Tahoe features. It wasn't just a terse "me too" post.

I also think that your analysis is reductive. Liquid Glass has some serious usability regressions, so there are very good reasons to criticize it, not just so-called "hate". In any case, there have been plenty of good, informative posts about Liquid Glass and iOS 26 in general; this submission, however, is not one of them.
by tejohnso | 2025-09-19 18:53:47+00:00
"The big picture is that the benefits of sunlight outweigh the risks—provided you don’t get sunburnt,” argues Richard Weller, a dermatologist at the University of Edinburg

Also, Dr. Roger Seheult has some strong opinions on this as well. Considers sun exposure one of the pillars of health and avoiding the sun to be as dangerous as smoking.
by squigz | 2025-09-19 18:53:53+00:00
> Again, I'm not sharing my speculation, I'm sharing my actual experience and conclusions as an atheist.

As am I, which you seem to refuse to believe for some reason.

> Also I want to point out that it's clear that you don't practice what I outlined or you wouldn't have mocked the belief of religious people as "a magical place in the sky", hence cargo cult morality. It looks like morality to you, it may even feel like morality, but it demonstrably isn't. You haven't inconvenienced yourself at all, you merely did what felt good.

Just because one does not live a perfectly moral life 100% of the time does not mean they are not moral. As you said, "You won't be perfect, but don't let that discourage you."
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-19 18:54:13+00:00
I think you're misinterpreting this statement. I'm using nostr for more than a year and I can publish to any free relay I want to. On Mastodon your account is tied to a specific instance while on nostr you have a private/public key pair that's independent of any relay. There are some more focused/curated relays that have additional filters/rules or only allow certain people to publish (whitelisted public keys, often paid or invite only). I know of no mechanism on nostr that would force anyone to stick to certain topics or issues.

I think the point of the quote is that Mastodon tries to be both a topic-centered community platform as well as a "everything goes" public social network like Twitter/X but the federation aspect is not true decentralization because you can easily lose your social graph/reach if some instance admin doesn't like you or your own instance gets #fediblocked.
by pragma_x | 2025-09-19 18:54:16+00:00
> Build what you Can’t Ship

This parallels another creative domain: cooking.

If you've ever wondered what's worth making yourself, it really comes down to the goal of building skills, or obtaining the unobtainable.

The latter is all over cuisine. There are lots of dishes and ingredients that are not economically viable as products. Factors like shelf-life, seasonal availability, cost of production, complexity of preparation - all that stuff is absolutely worth taking on yourself. We never see a huge portion of the world's cuisine at the supermarket for those reasons. Restaurants are better since they cook meals, but they're limited by similar economics and making money at volume & scale. The only way to go deeper is to DIY.

Just like with cooking, there is a huge range of possibilities outside economic viability that applies to any technology. Build a kit car that can't be manufactured on an assembly line. Make stuff out of wood that you'll never see at a craft fair. Build electronics and software with insane BoMs that no entrepreneur would touch with a 10-foot pole. Renovate a room in your house to taste in a way that no contractor would dare take on. If this stuff scratches an itch or enriches your life in some way, learn, explore, and go do it.
by xyst | 2025-09-19 18:54:24+00:00
What’s the point of having a 0-1 mindset in a corporate environment? A majority of the time it’s wasted. It gets shelved and never used again. Maybe some upstart in the company picks up the effort again 5-6 years.

We (ie, people that do not have a safety net) do not have this luxury you people did in the 1990s of experimentation and curiosity. Boomers and leaders using shitty Reaganomic economic policies have decimated our safety nets by so much that it makes experimentation a luxury for the rich and powerful.

Cost of living is higher than ever. Inflation is higher than ever. We are handcuffed to this shitty system in America called “private health insurance.” Get sick? No job? You are fucked m8.

The risks of "curiousity" are much much higher than it was during your time buddy
by barnas2 | 2025-09-19 18:54:30+00:00
> SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD)

The only 100% required thing on there is some sort of power supply, and an SD card, and I suspect a lot of people have a spare USB-C cable and brick lying around. A cooler is only recommended if you're going to be putting it under sustained CPU load, and they're like $10 on Amazon.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-19 18:54:34+00:00
Somewhat related, the partial-illusion of "where did all the old developers go, they seem way too rare, something is happening to them." While attrition and ageism do exist, there's a bigger factor.

The total workforce has expanded dramatically over time, so even if everybody in the started-40-years-ago cohort remained alive and employed, those (now much older) people would still be a tiny minority among the bigger and bigger cohorts that kept joining since then.
by brudgers | 2025-09-19 18:54:46+00:00
The Wright's claims have no independent verification and everything comes from Orville Wright decades later (e.g. Orville restored the Flyer in 1916 and then continuously until he sold it in 1928). In addition the terms on which the Smithsonian obtained Orville Wright's documents and artifacts prohibit the Smithsonian from any and every action that might contradict the belief that the Wrights were the first heavier than air flight.