MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2025-09-15 15:48:05+00:00
Agreed, I wouldn't say XXXX grams of Hershey's chocolate syrup, but I do want to know what size "a can" means.

On the other hand, for things that you would always measure (or need to do to sizes changing) like flour or sugar, I want that in grams for easy measuring. Even chocolate bars, might be easier to just say how much you need since getting exactly what you are looking for might be difficult/impossible.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-15 15:49:07+00:00
Before digital artifacts, nations had to identify the individual, and get access to their writings to determine culpability.

With digital artifacts, nations have enjoyed the ability to go to third parties to for the last 40-50 years to get access to individual's writings as a shortcut.

This is just a return to the mean. It is not novel or controversial to say "identify the individual, and get access to their writings" in whatever legal way that nation prescribes. Good luck, since their devices may be locked, but going after the individual is real law enforcement
by brookst | 2025-09-15 15:49:11+00:00
Wait so are all non-standard CSS attributes "anticompetitive"? This seems like wild hyperbole.

Is Google's "-webkit-tap-highlight-color" also anticompetitive? Should we ban the current practice of shipping proprietary CSS attributes while sometimes also proposing them for standardization?

It's just really hard for me to read that as a legit complaint.
by Pesthuf | 2025-09-15 15:49:36+00:00
If the police has a warrant, they can present it to your phone provider who are then required to send the data they have about you and your phone calls. This data may include the actual recorded conversations if allowed by the warrant.

This is regulated in the Telekommunikations-Überwachungsverordnung (TKÜV).

Edit: nvm, I didn't see this was about the GDR.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-15 15:50:32+00:00
> For instance, last month, Kennedy canceled nearly $500 million in grants that supported developing mRNA vaccines to prevent the next pandemic. In June, Kennedy fired all 17 highly qualified and respected experts on a vaccine advisory panel for the CDC—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices—which sets the vaccine standards and insurance coverage for the country. Kennedy quickly restocked ACIP with hand-selected members who share his contempt for mRNA vaccines and pandemic policies. He's currently considering adding more such members.

I’ve heard a lot recently about the fall of the Roman Empire and how lots of people died of the plague at the end which meant they weren’t able to maintain social order, military, etc.

I wonder if that’s what’s gonna happen to the US. The next pandemic will come and maybe next time instead of “only” 1.2 million people dying it’ll be many more. Someone might take advantage of that when that happens.
by natch | 2025-09-15 15:50:42+00:00
Nah. A single good 220 outlet is sufficient for keeping three actively used EVs well charged at home. We use a middle range one (40 amp, not 50) and it supports three cars easily. With 50 amp it would be even easier. Most houses come with these already installed.

Hell, a single good 110 outlet ("good" meaning higher amp, like a kitchen or garage outlet) is sufficient for keeping two actively used EVs well charged at home if Superchargers are available as a backup.
by jdiez17 | 2025-09-15 15:50:42+00:00
I personally haven’t seen confirmed SEUs in the satellites I’ve designed/operated (as in, an ionized particle affecting a transistor/MOSFET in a way that creates a short circuit and can only be cleared with a power cycle). But it’s good practice to design space systems to have current monitoring and automatically power off in case of such events.

Resets etc. are common, most likely caused by software bugs. This is more or less assumed as a fact of life; software for space applications is often as stateless as possible, and when it’s required you’d implement frequent state checkpoints, redundant data storage, etc. These are all common practices that you’d do anyway, it doesn’t make a huge difference if the software is running on a rad-hard microcontroller or off the shelf Linux processor - although (IMO) there are many benefits to the latter (and some downsides as well.) Assuming a base level of reliability, of course - you don’t want your OBC/PDH to overheat or reboot every 5 minutes.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-15 15:51:00+00:00
It's dependent on state and local hospitals.

States that opted into the ACA Medicaid Expansion and generally fund hospitals have great emergency care for poor people. There's a kind of missing middle where once you're above the income threshold for Medicaid but aren't working for a job that's willing to fund an extremely good health plan you have to deal with all sorts of deductibles and prior authorizations and stuff. Plus, non-emergency care, especially from specialists, has gotten longer and longer wait times unless you're lucky enough to live in a region with mostly healthy people that also aren't the "worried well."

Tl;dr, it's incredibly patchwork, and everyone's experience is going to vary depending on their state's individual social safety net, the overall health of their local population, the particular insurance network and hospital network they have access to, and their individual income.

Also, the US has a federal law that no hospital that accepts Medicare patients is allowed to deny care in the case of an emergency based on someone's ability to pay. That means that a lot of very poor people will get incredibly expensive emergency care for free, while not being able to afford the basic preventative care that would keep them out of a state of medical emergency. That isn't really the hallmark of a particularly functional system.
by fsflover | 2025-09-15 15:51:10+00:00
> but it doesn't provide better protection against exploitation within those guests

Why would you need that if you don't run any untrusted apps in a trusted VM? Also, you don't have any private information in the untrusted VMs. It might only be helpful in the context of security in depth, but this barrier for attackers is much lower than the virtualization itself.

> data extraction in the After First Unlock state

By whom? A physical attacker?

> Hardware-based virtualization is one of the GrapheneOS hardware requirements

Qubes doesn't force the user to have it. Could GrapheneOS also allow using devices which don't support it? It would make millions of people more secure, not less. And it would make GrapheneOS more popular, too. You could name it "GrapheneOS lite" if you're afraid of a false security message.

> Applications and guest operating systems are just as vulnerable to exploitation

Which exploitation? Where would it come from?
by gus_massa | 2025-09-15 15:51:18+00:00
There is a local metric. The value of length/2/r depends on how big the circle is:

Imagine the Earth is a sphere. You make circles centered in the north pole:

* If the circle is tiny, the Earth is almost flat and you get almost pi.

* If the circle is the equator, you have to walk 1/4 of length the circle from the pole to the equator, so the result is 4/2=2

* If the circle is so big that you walked almost to the south pole, the result is almost 0.
by KerrAvon | 2025-09-15 15:51:42+00:00
> it’s just human nature

It's not, though. The universal avarice of the current era may not be unprecedented in history, but it wasn't the norm through most of the 20th century. There was a time when layoffs were considered painful failures at some corporations, instead of routine business strategy -- probably because the Great Depression was still in living memory.
by stillsut | 2025-09-15 15:52:14+00:00
I've got some receipts for what I think is good vibe coding...

I save every prompt and associated ai-generated diff in a markdown file for a steganography package I'm working on.

Check out this document: https://github.com/sutt/innocuous/blob/master/docs/dev-summa...

In particular, under v0.1.0 see `decode-branch.md` prompt and it's associated generated diff which implements memoization for backtracking while performing decoding.

It's a tight PR that fits the existing codebase and works well, you just need a motivating example you can reproduce which can help me you quickly determine if the proposed solution is working. I usually generate 2-3 solutions initially and then filter them quickly based on a test case. And as you can see from the prompt, it's far from well formatted or comprehensive, just "slap dash" listing of potentially relevant information similar to what would be discussed at an informal whiteboard session.
by brookst | 2025-09-15 15:52:31+00:00
Love or hate liquid glass, the paradigm shift from "UI chrome is a wrapper around app content" to "UI is overlayed on top of app content" seems like the future. It's well aligned with AR and better separates UI layout from content for different screen sizes.

I'm neutral on this first implementation (some good, some bad). But I think the approach will be picked up by essentially everyone. Good news for you, there's nothing saying the overlay UI model has to be transparent. Some will probably be opaque but still floating.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-15 15:52:47+00:00
As someone who typically supports a lot of third parties at the ballot box, I have to say that our problem is actually not people seeing us as a psy-op.

It's people seeing us as, at best, irrelevant; and at worst, a joke.

I've been voting since the late eighties, and have come to realize it is our lack of organization and, at times, our policies. Which in all honesty can be at once, foolish and bizarre.

It's difficult to bring the platforms of any new party in hand precisely because they are attracting people whose ideas are maybe not very popular in the mainstream parties. The mainstream parties have bizarre and foolish policies as well, but they've had 40 years to brainwash their voters. It's hard to have the same effect in, say, 2 or 4 years.

So you have to have a pristine platform and stick to it.

This is where as independents and third party supporters, we've repeatedly failed.
by apparent | 2025-09-15 15:53:31+00:00
> someone who bake cakes for a living who said they used boxed mixture for most of their baking.

Would love to see such a video. I could imagine using certain box mixes for certain specific purposes, but for most of their baking? I cannot imagine this being claimed by even a casual cook/baker.

> some of the ingredients involved are not easily available/cost-efficient for the home baker

Sure, but some of these are also only necessary because the box has to have a very long shelf life. If you buy your staple ingredients every month or two, you don't need stabilizers and such.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-15 15:53:51+00:00
No. As I stated, if the trick doesn’t work at 50mm it is because you are using a viewfinder with a different magnification.

A Pentax MX for example shows .97x magnification at 50mm. It will work great for your trick. Meanwhile a Canon AE-1 has .83x magnification at 50mm meaning one eye will be seeing an image where everything is 17% different in size. It will be like one eye is looking at a 55 inch TV and the other eye is looking at a 45 inch TV. Or more accurately, one eye is looking at the same TV but from 17% farther away.

If you throw a 58mm lens on that Canon, the trick will work again because you are zooming in to compensate for the zooming out that is happening in the viewfinder.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with 50mm lenses being “standard”.

Don’t believe me? Go slap a 50mm lens on an SLR with very low magnification. Or read one of the dozens of articles and threads out there explaining your misconception. Here’s a great one: https://www.lomography.com/magazine/319909-cameras-in-depth-...
by Gormo | 2025-09-15 15:53:59+00:00
> Can you name even a single left-wing policy or rhetorical position of this administration?

Tariffs. Deficit spending. Federalization of law enforcement. Hyperpoliticization of social questions. Government ownership/direction of private industry.

> “Cultural wedge issues” are about actual policy domains, and have a real left-right valence.

They've not been about actual policy domains until relatively recently. These issues have been marginal with respect to actual policy considerations for decades.

> 30 years ago? The height of the neoliberal consensus when the Right leaned heavily on the cultural wedge issues of opposition to abortion, homosexuality, and affirmative action?

GOP candidates in certain regions invoked various wedge issues on the campaign trail in order to put them over the top in elections for contested seats. Upon election, they then did nothing whatsoever to shift the actual policy needle in relation to these issue, and focused precisely on "neoliberal consensus" economic issues of the exact sort that the current administration is diametrically opposed to.

> but that was pretty obviously a tactical adaptation to the immediate circumstances, not the essence of conservatism.

But no, it actually is the "essence of conservatism" where conservatism is an actual political philosophy, and not an empty term that refers to the haphazard policy preferences of whatever faction a particular political party happens to be pandering to at any given moment.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-15 15:54:00+00:00
> It, too, would benefit from becoming Rust.

Yet it was created for Python. Someone took that effort and did it. No one took that effort in Rust. End of the story of crab's superiority.

Python community is constantly creating new, great, highly usable packages that become de facto industry standards, and maintain old ones for years, creating tutorials, trainings and docs. Commercial vendors ship Python APIs to their proprietary solutions. Whereas Rust community is going through forums and social media telling them that they should use Rust instead, or that they "cheated" because those libraries are really C/C++ libraries (and BTW those should be done in Rust as well, because safety).
by oliwarner | 2025-09-15 15:54:22+00:00
Can't believe an article on rent-vs-buy doesn't feature the word "evict".

Yes, renting allows you to up and leave, but buying gives you the security you won't be homeless when your landlord gets bored of you.

This really matters when you have roots. Kids in school, proximal employment, friends and family nearby, a lifestyle.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-09-15 15:54:23+00:00
Energy conservation comes directly from integrating Newton’s second law one time, assuming a conservative force field:

1. F = ma

2. -dV/dx = m d2x/dt2 # force is the negative gradient of potential. Acceleration is the second time derivative of displacement.

3. Rewrite d/dx as 1/v * d/dt via the chain rule: d/dt V = d/dx V * dx/dt => d/dx V = 1/v d/dt V => d/dx = 1/v d/dt.

4. Rearrange (2). 0 = dV/dt + m v d2x/dt2.

5. Integrate both sides by t. E = V + 1/2 m v^2 # where the constant of integration is a conserved quantity (energy).
by graypegg | 2025-09-15 15:54:41+00:00
It's still present in a lot of avgas! (Fuel for airplanes) Obviously much less impactful than being surrounded by lead-spewing cars, we haven't totally stopped lead-spewing generally yet.

It would be interesting to know how much leaded avgas specifically affects people. Clearly most of it is emitted high up in the atmosphere but there's still a lot of idling and taxiing around airports...
by j4hdufd8 | 2025-09-15 15:55:27+00:00
The Pixel 6 is mentioned specifically about eFuses which is the technical detail that caught my attention in this thread.

> The Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, Pixel 6 and Samsung Galaxy S22 are known for using eFuses this way.[8]

Anti-rollback protection is a security feature, eFuses are hardware primitives that can be used to implement it. Bootloader locking is another security feature that can be implemented with eFuses.

If you have any data denying the use of eFuses in the Pixel 6, please share it, that is what I was interested in this sub-thread. I really did not understand the relevance and the correctness of your comment.
by jrm4 | 2025-09-15 15:55:29+00:00
This is such a "technically true, the worst kind of true" take.

Whatever group or person "got Wayland going" collectively or individually made a clear choice to abandon a lot of load-bearing standards, and its disengenuous to not recognize that; and I think why people (like me) still complain is to note that this was at least arguably a mistake.

Wayland's rollout was long and terrible, and more cooperation (as opposed to what actually happened, which was likely "move fast and break things because advancement and shiny things since we are now much more corporate" might have been better.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-15 15:55:35+00:00
> If the news was flipped and we saw a report that Tesla is building a gigafactory in Korea and bringing in American construction workers without filing for formal work visas in Korea, that would be unacceptable

If Seoul then shackled those workers and treated them in a way we’d find barely acceptable for POWs, you really think there wouldn’t be an irrational outburst in Washington?
by ryandrake | 2025-09-15 15:55:49+00:00
> The problem with establishing lots of hoops to jump through, is that legit organizations can't deal with it, but scammers have no problems playing the game. It's just the cost of doing business, for them.

It’s a cost of doing business for both of them. Surely any remotely serious developer will have at least as many resources to deal with app review as Fast Eddie’s Shovelware Emporium. It’s not really that big a deal: Apple tells you why they rejected the app, and you correct the problem and resubmit. The developers who have trouble with this are often the ones who try to argue with the reviewer or escalate/appeal (I believe this because I worked for a company that would insist on fighting Apple’s reviewers instead of just fixing the problem).

Yes, dealing with app review is an annoying cost, but the burden is pretty uniformly spread across all app developers.
by eallam | 2025-09-15 15:55:59+00:00
Currently we have two deployment models: self-host the entire platform or use our cloud offering, where we host the platform and your workloads. We've had a lot of feedback from users and potential users that they'd like to be able to run workloads themself and have us host the platform side. We definitely plan on offering this deployment model (and allowing payloads and outputs to stay on-prem as well) eventually, but we're waiting until we can do it properly and that will support all the features of the cloud (snapshot/restore, warm starts, atomic versioning). We're planning on offering this alongside the release of our MicroVM runtime later this year/early next year.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-15 15:55:59+00:00
I’m not. What you are saying makes little sense given the realities of the electoral college, the Senate having two senators, and how easy it is to gerrymander because democratic votes are concentrated.

The votes of the more left leaning part of the electorate are disadvantaged and diffused because of it. California and New York are represented by the same two Senators as North and South Dakota.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-15 15:56:09+00:00
Well I don't mix work, gaming (especially with random proprietary code) and personnal stuff on the same device unless there is a good decent separation of the environments. Since gaming is the only usage that warrant a big heavy desktop with a GPU, that I like the conveniency of a laptop for personnal use and have a dedicated work laptop provided by my employer, it is fairly easy to separate duties.
by freedomben | 2025-09-15 15:56:13+00:00
I had the same thought. Makes me think we're getting old and the old ways of the web just aren't known as widely anymore.

I've had to do this several times in the past because the customer firewall blocks google domains, and it never required a second thought. The only question I had was around the legality of doing so (which I checked on). Once I verified that, it was about 2 minutes of wget (or curl) the file down, stick in a static web server, and update the links in the HTML page and Bob's your Uncle
by SquibblesRedux | 2025-09-15 15:56:31+00:00
I just asked ChatGPT-5 to "give me a 16x16 PNG icon of an apple" and it did exactly that. It looks good, too.

Not that I don't recognize the inherent limits of LLMs, but there are as many edge cases covered as are found in the training sets. (More or less.)
How WASM DB and worker messaging helped me handle 500MB in 2s in browser
by vinserello | 2025-09-15 15:57:00+00:00
Demo broke us: Datastripes stalled on a 200MB sheet.

Fix = rip logic into WASM analytical DB (<3 duckDB), wire workers with synced message channels, cut the overhead. Parsing + aggregation now run parallel, no BS.

Benchmarks: 500MB ingested in ~2s Charts on 100k+ rows live Plain i7, 16GB RAM

Basically spreadsheets at GPU-speed, no GPU. Play with it: https://datastripes.com
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-15 15:57:09+00:00
I've heard people across both reddit and HN claim that this violates 1st, 5th, 9th, and 14th Amendments, as well as Article IV of the Constitution.

The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.

Article IV (Privileges and Immunities Clause): The Constitution's Article IV, which protects the rights of citizens in different states, has been interpreted as including the right to free movement between states.

Fifth Amendment (Due Process Clause): The Fifth Amendment's guarantee of liberty without being deprived of it without due process of law has also been cited by the Supreme Court as a basis for the right to travel, including international travel.

Ninth Amendment: This amendment protects certain fundamental rights not explicitly listed in the Constitution, including the right to travel.

14th Amendment (Equal Protection Clause): In Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), the Supreme Court recognized the right to travel as a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which ensures equal treatment regardless of residency.

But I guess what really matters at the end of the day is what a judge interprets those laws to mean.
by vdupras | 2025-09-15 15:58:25+00:00
You begin by making a pen "from just the elements", then work your way up to there.

In other words, it's a huge challenge, but 6502 is closer, in complexity, to the pen than to the, say, AMD Ryzen.

But the primary idea behind Collapse OS isn't to run from 6502 built from the ground up (although it partly is), but to run from frankenstein cobbled up machines made from scavenged parts.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-09-15 15:58:28+00:00
>Denmark, is a great country, however even I notice problems here as there are in other countries. Corruption and poor decisions. For example a local government office has a brand new facade finish ( amongst other work) that has taken about 4 years to do, its an entire building.

I'm sorry but when my own president is hard at work enriching himself and his family to the tune of Billions of dollars at the expense of the citizens here this sounds like a joke.
by clort | 2025-09-15 15:58:36+00:00
The short term problem is, that the government are responsible for sacking themselves in the short term - and those clowns just refused to, which is not the case for the current government who are replacements for the clowns who the electorate firmly sacked at their first opportunity.

So re your comment: 'For the UK govt its business as usual', not really.

You do not have to like the government of the day, but don't fall into the trap of believing that they are all the same.