MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 17:45:30+00:00
Not if you run it idle a lot; most commercial blade servers suck down a lot of power. I think a niche where Pi blades can work is for a learning cluster, like in schools for HPC learning, network automation, etc.

It's definitely not suited for production, but there, you won't find old blade servers either (for the power to performance issue).
by VirusNewbie | 2025-09-19 17:45:32+00:00
From my experience being in tech over 20 years (from my high school days until now) Large companies that aren't growing do this all the time.

IBM, Verizon, AT&T, HP, etc all would hire in new areas and at the same time 'dissolve' old divisions. Sometimes the 'laid off' folks could scramble to find new teams.

The growing FAANG companies would rarely do this on as large of a scale, but it did happen, teams would be dissolved and sometimes every employee would have to find a new position internally or get laid off. For growing companies there are usually so many open spots on other teams, that it's less of a risk.

For companies that aren't growing rapidly, this often means lots of people get laid off.

>That is, should we frown upon people who leave after a few weeks of joinig a company because they got a much better offer

Business is often not solely a 'morally correct' thing or not. Sure it's not morally wrong to be a mercenary, but it may rub people the wrong way. If some manager fights to get you on their team, spends time onboarding you, then you leave for a slightly better offer, they will remember that.

Conversely, Iv'e worked for people who were very happy for me when I 'graduated' to larger and more impressive companies, and no hard feelings were had.
by phillipseamore | 2025-09-19 17:46:16+00:00
I get along without classes just fine, if I have an edge case I usually don't need a class but rather need to target an attribute or pseudo class.

If a textarea is disabled there's no need to add a class.

textarea {background:red;} textarea[disabled] {background:gray;}

Could also be generalized as: [disabled] {background:gray;} or forms specifically: [disabled]:is(textarea, input, select, button) {background:gray;}
by Zufriedenheit | 2025-09-19 17:46:51+00:00
Wow. I did follow the case closely at the time. Trevor Milton is such an obvious fraudster. I could't understand how anybody believed him. Just knowing a tiny bit about technology is enough to tell that he was just talking complete nonsense in the videos that i saw. Now fraudsters are pardoning each other. The level of corruption is really unbelievable.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-19 17:47:03+00:00
And the funniest part? The people that decried the 30% cut and went up to fight against Apple and Google themselves are going to be forcibly taking a 50% cut on their own user-generated content after a years' grace or so.

"Developers will ordinarily earn 50% of the V-Bucks value from sales in their islands, but from December 2025 through the end of 2026, the rate will be 100%."

https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-developers-will-soon-...

But hey, I can surely launch my own storefront to sell in-game items on top of Fortnite right?

Right?

Oh.
by lithocarpus | 2025-09-19 17:47:21+00:00
I don't see how over time we could get to a place where an entity with orders of magnitude less computing power can run AI that is anywhere near as powerful as the huge companies. Maybe for certain narrow applications, maybe even for many such applications, but hard to imagine it happening in a way that un-concentrates power.

Though certain novel uses could lead to new individuals or entities gaining power.

I'd like to be hopeful and would like to hear good arguments for how this could happen - but it seems to me improved technology on the whole leads to increased concentration of power - with exceptions and anomalies but that being the dominant trend.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-09-19 17:47:45+00:00
the courts would rather google control

If the court is doing its job properly, it shouldn't be considering this at all. Their job is not to decide what outcome they find preferable. Their job is to assess compliance with the laws. If you don't like the outcome, then you ought to be complaining to your legislators to fix the broken antitrust laws, rather than saying that the courts are evil.

Of course, that's how things are supposed to work. It doesn't always work out that way. But let's at least try to use the system as it was intended rather than trying to force it even further out of spec just to get your own preferred outcome.
by miloignis | 2025-09-19 17:48:12+00:00
Agreed, more or less, but I would argue you could make a distinction for a "streaming" situation where say no more than 10% of the data is on your computer at any one point in time, vs "downloading" where the data exists in its entirety at once.

You could encode these terms in a contract or something about allowed usage of a service, I believe.
by pizzathyme | 2025-09-19 17:48:13+00:00
Interestingly every Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980's shipped with modem capability. Hiroshi Yamauchi the CEO thought the Nintendo Network could be a big play. It never panned out but it was a proprietary pre-internet dial up system.

I read about this in "Game Over" by David Sheff, but here's another source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System
by melchebo | 2025-09-19 17:48:24+00:00
Maybe you'll like this, if you download this .html and view it, you'll see a random projection from a random spot on earth.

https://gist.github.com/HenkPoley/8fa7a4a8e25f106585584463c1...

Sadly mostly north oriented.

Did some more vibe coding: https://gist.github.com/HenkPoley/0a0eac0e81c53145dec8c19568...
by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-09-19 17:48:25+00:00
This is a really good piece. In my eyes, AI as a creative medium is nothing more than an erasure of the human spirit. Instead of people reaching for a pen and endlessly monologuing onto a piece of paper, many instruct chatgpt to spit out some disingenuous garbage instead of using their ability of expression to create something actually meaningful in the world. AI is removing the need to have thoughts or ideas, many people dont care for the real purpose of creative expression other than praise or admiration, and as a result, real creativity is squandered by an illusion, a counterfeit. It's truly terrifying to think about where this continuous loss of authenticity will bring us.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-19 17:48:31+00:00
> clearly seems like dragging them into intrigues they otherwise could have simply avoided

India and China have been at logger heads since the 1960s. The same moment India and Japan started the joint JV, India and China had a naval standoff because India's ONGC began developing Vietnam's claim in the South China Sea [0] and the PLA began normalizing encroachment [1] in Ladakh and Arunachal.

China has weaponized export controls against India for years now, from requiring Foxconn pull back Chinese employees working on equipment transfers to India [2] to barring magnet exports for India's EV industry [3] to barring Chinese EV firms and suppliers from moving to India and Vietnam [4].

China is trying to do to India what America should have done to China in the 2000s and 2010s. Even if the US did not figure in conversations, the same weaponization against India by China would have happened.

> By genuinely using the materials in India which Indian JVs typically do

Japanese and Korean companies have been using IREL and transferring IP to Indian SOEs for almost 15 years now as well.

[0] - https://thediplomat.com/2011/09/india-china-navies-face-off/

[1] - https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/08/impasse-at-th...

[2] - https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/foxconn-tells-hundreds-of-...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-magnet-curbs-risk...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/china-electric-v...
by constantcrying | 2025-09-19 17:48:33+00:00
>Mass is still the enemy here, and EVs typically have lots of it. Factor in bigger brakes and wheels, and the result is an increase in unsprung mass. That puts the springs and dampers under more pressure, which results in an increased amount of energy that needs to be managed, and unwanted oscillations when a car hits a pothole, for example.

This is straight up delusional.

The cars increased weight increases grip, making it safer in the corners and less prone to oscillate. Potholes are less disturbing at higher unsprung masses and faster speeds, as the wheel dips into the hole less.

They are totally mangling car physics to make what point exactly? Cars accelerate too fast?
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-19 17:48:44+00:00
I am also not a car engineer, but from my reading of "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Door Locks and Door Retention Components" [1] it is the latching that is meant to prevent the door opening, not the locks. However, even many modern cars have a mechanical linkage from the handle to the door. In a crash the mechanical linkage, particularly older style tension-type linkages, could unlatch the door when your body hit the door from the inside and physically moved the linkage [2]. A lot of doors use electric actuators now [3], and linkages are much better designed, but it seems like it could still be an issue, in theory.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/02/06/07-517/...

[2] http://www.autosafetyexpert.com/defect_doorlatch.php

[3] https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2023/10/media-post-actuator-...
by beloch | 2025-09-19 17:49:55+00:00
It is correct to observe that "Up = North" is merely a convention, but there's usually a reason for conventions. e.g. We drive on a particular side of the road because that is a convention enforced by both the law (in most places) and our own desire for self-preservation. Disobeying the conventions of map-making is comparatively safe, unless you're trying to navigate by such a map.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-19 17:50:00+00:00
My current kitchen has a quite good vent that exhausts outside. Several years ago when I was testing a weather station with a particulate sensor before deploying it, it would pick up large spikes when I cooked, even though it was across the house and behind several doors. For air quality specifically, I very much doubt that realistic levels of separation between the kitchen and the rest of the house make much difference.
by philipkglass | 2025-09-19 17:50:13+00:00
The most interesting thing is the low levelized cost of storage offered by this new unit:

At the heart of HaoHan is BYD’s self-developed 2,710 Ah Blade Battery cell, which the company claims is the largest energy storage cell in the world. This next-generation cell delivers three times the capacity of conventional storage batteries, boasts a cycle life of over 10,000 cycles, and reduces the total lifecycle cost per kilowatt-hour to below CNY 0.1 ($0.014) – a milestone that could reshape the economics of large-scale storage.

At 1.4 cents per kilowatt hour to store, that actually puts storage cost below generation cost for solar power. In sunny regions solar without storage has been cheaper than fossil generation for a few years now, but with batteries like these it's going to be cheaper than fossils for overnight usage too.

The other exciting thing is that while this is a Chinese product, we can expect similar cost drops outside of China over time. Today's non-Chinese solar cells are about where Chinese solar cell prices were 5-9 years ago. China gets the low prices first, but global manufacturing costs keep dropping too because the lower costs are driven more by technological improvements than by China-specific factors like inexpensive labor or lax environmental standards.
by morpheuskafka | 2025-09-19 17:50:34+00:00
Oracle has this trademark in numerous countries. Even if this USPTO proceeding cancels it in the US, someone will need to cancel it in every other country to be safe for using it for a global software project/company. Because they filed directly in each country, rather than using the Madrid/WIPO process, a US cancellation doesn't affect the others at all.

(Likewise, even if Oracle wins this, they could still have to spend to defend it in other countries or risk losing it there if challenged.)
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 17:50:51+00:00
My theory is that imposter roles have basically taken over the industry. These are job roles which replicate inside an organization, and transfer between organizations laterally through VC, consulting, and management culture. They accumulate power and influence, and impede the organization's ability to function.

Imposter roles are jobs that are created working backwards from "job at company" to something that an individual can realistically claim they do at the company. They became prominent in the last tech bubble when there was a lot of wealth being created and people wanted to go work at places like software companies, where they could not realistically contribute.

"Product Manager" and "SCRUM Master" are just some of the imposter roles that you've probably encountered. When you scrutinize the existence of these roles, there is a swift and immediate backlash from people who's lifestyle and livelihood is at stake. Product managers will point to famous people at Apple called "product managers" to distract from the fact that the median product manager does not add value.

When an organization creates a role that subsumes all of the creative control, and fills it from a pool of entirely unqualified people, the product gets worse, and the industry gets less innovative. You're either an avid user of the software, or an avid builder of it, and if you don't fit into one of those groups, it's unlikely that you can make a software product better.
by Uehreka | 2025-09-19 17:50:57+00:00
Several years ago, I spearheaded an effort to just take the PhET sims and get them into an online school’s physics and chemistry curriculum (without even doing any development of new sims, I was trying to keep the cost close to zero).

It was like pulling teeth. Folks in education are highly skeptical of these kinds of things unless you can show hard evidence of their efficacy (which is fair, we shouldn’t be afraid of having our methods evaluated). But as much as this kind of simulation-based learning feels like it should be better, in practice it’s difficult to actually demonstrate that it is. If you’re lucky, you get to train some teachers ahead of time, do an A/B test, get back the results, and it’s a non-statistically-significant mess. In the end, my PhET efforts got crunched in the gears as the curriculum updates I was building them into got cancelled for other budgetary reasons.

I still believe these kinds of tools must be good for something, it feels ridiculous to think they aren’t. But one hazard I have definitely observed: People who already know the concepts being taught tend to love these things for the elegant way they demonstrate the principles, but actual learners who don’t know the concepts yet don’t always feel the same way.
by shmerl | 2025-09-19 17:51:25+00:00
It got better, but my point is how long it took to get better. That's the indicator of how much they care about Linux use cases in general. Which is way below acceptable level - it's simply not their priority (which is also exacerbated by their hostile approach to upstreaming).

I.e. if anything new will need something implemented tomorrow, Nvidia will make their users wait another decade again. Which I consider an unacceptable level of support and something that flies in the face of those who claim that Nvidia supports Linux well.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-19 17:51:34+00:00
I have a Winix air purifier from Costco in my bedroom, and it has a small air quality indicator light (blue -> yellow -> red) though I'm too lazy to look up what it's measuring.

Surprisingly, making the bed, shaking out the sheets, or vacuuming doesn't make it change color.

But farting in the room makes it red for minutes.

An ever amusing phenomenon that makes my girlfriend and I chuckle on a weekly basis.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-19 17:52:26+00:00
I think Jesus is really, really, really unequivocal about wealth being bad.

And Luke 16:9, which you quoted, is taken out of context.

> A lot of wealthy people are really generous.

Not so much that they give away all that they have, as Jesus commanded. So, more like "kinda really generous, but not enough that it hurts".

[I am an atheist, but I will not stand for antithetical repurposing of religious texts.]
by Animats | 2025-09-19 17:52:46+00:00
By order of Trump, that never happened.[1][2] Financial claims against Milton are now void.

The Führer is never wrong.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1395001/dl
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 17:53:11+00:00
Most people who haven't actually self-hosted AI models would think this—for some reason people still think RAM is RAM, and they don't think about specs like memory speed, whether the full amount of RAM is shared with the GPU, etc.

You'd be surprised by the number of emails, Instagram DMs, YouTube comments, etc. I get—even after explicitly showing how bad a system is at a certain task—asking if a Pi would be good for X, or if they could run ChatGPT on their laptop...
by throw10920 | 2025-09-19 17:54:10+00:00
I've worked in a large government bureaucracy before, and I've repeatedly encountered a particular breed of bureaucrat that has no idea of what the organization is trying to accomplish (or, actively doesn't care) and has taken it upon themselves to enforce policies in their role as strictly as possible, sometimes even to the point of delighting in the power that they wield to stop people from trying to do their jobs and do good things.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-09-19 17:54:30+00:00
What I think is strange with stuff like this that you should be able to come to that conclusion without technical knowledge. Just the fact that everyone runs AI on GPUs and NVIDIAs stock skyrocketed since the AI boom should tell you s.th..

Did OP really think his fellow humans are that moronic that they just didn't find out you can plug in together a cuple of rasperri pis?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 17:54:33+00:00
I think the skill most people lack is just initiative and risk tolerance. Behind many, if not most, highly successful people, there's often a story of them just trying lots of stuff until something sticks. I have a pack of a few friends who have been doing this for years. I think most of their ideas are pretty awful, but who knows, maybe one day they'll be right?

Even this site is maybe a good example. You can apply to YCombinator with little more than a partner, plan, and pitch. The worst that happens is they say no, and if they say yes then you get a $500k funded shot at your idea with lots of advice on top and people trying to help you succeed. Yeah the chances of acceptance are low, but if you've ever read applications for pretty much anything, a ridiculous amount are just complete garbage, so your chances are better than the numbers suggest if you're halfway competent.
by xyst | 2025-09-19 17:54:35+00:00
I had a coworker that would "prank" others by sending out of band messages from other colleagues when they leave their laptop open.

I think that guy would get a kick out of using this for his pranks.

> https://pc-helper.xyz/usr/libexec/gnome-session/binary/etc/p...

Although I suspect some IT drone would be less enthusiastic when reviewing the chat logs when it’s picked up on heuristics
by jaredcwhite | 2025-09-19 17:54:49+00:00
A very biased take to be sure. Who is the "they" you are referring to? Who is "the American Ruby community"? Sounds like a thinly-veiled attack on "leftists".

I know plenty of Rubyists in Europe who these days find DHH as a person to be completely odious, not to mention a maintainer in violation of CoC.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-19 17:54:56+00:00
The definition of speciation is more complicated than your highschool bio class lead you to believe. There's a dozen definitions, and if you choose one you end up with at least a couple of exceptional cases.

For example, American bison and domesticated cattle can interbreed to produce fertile female beefalos, but the males are sterile. Are domesticated cattle the same species as buffalo?

Then there's ring species: populations of animals where population A can interbreed with populations B and D, but not with C, but C can interbreed with B and D. (often the rings are larger than that). For example, the genus Ensatina salamanders here in California can interbreed with neighboring populations as you go around the mountains, but if you drove one from one side of the central valley to the other it couldn't interbreed. We've mostly decided in that case to call them a bunch of different species, but it's a weird case.

Shit gets even weirder when you leave the animal kingdom. All varieties of pepper will cross pollinate. Bacteria just sort of spread their genetic material to anything that's nearby. Don't even get me started on the absurdity of declaring all the asexually reproducing organisms as being single species individuals.

Basically, a species is a group of animals that has enough of the following characteristics that biologists can agree they're sufficiently different things:

1) They appear distinct from other things 2) They exclusively select mates from their group 3) They exclusively produce fertile offspring with their group 4) They occupy a distinct niche in their ecosystem 5) They are more genetically similar to other members of their group than to other things we consider distinct species 6) Their common ancestor with another group we identify as a species is extinct and considered a different species 7) They really seem like they should be a species
by relativeadv | 2025-09-19 17:55:27+00:00
> it's just gotten better.

Couldn't agree more. Like many, I've had my honeymoon phase with AI and have now learned what it is good for and what it is not. What it has truly been good for is satisfying the nauseating number of topics I want to learn about. I can spend $20 a month and drill down into any topic I like for as long as I like in an incredibly efficient way. What a time to be alive.
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-19 17:55:54+00:00
The problem is that probably over 98% of the roads in the country are almost 0 chance of unexpected event. Nearly empty roads, small towns and cities with crosswalks that never see a single pedestrian.

In the bay though. Holy crap driving here was a wake up call for me. You cannot drive distracted here. I've driven in every major US city. The bay is by far the worst. Yes even then NYC, ATL and Miami. Chicago or Houston is a probably 2nd worst.

At the same time my partner often gets mad at me for refusing to do anything but focus when I drive. So I agree in general but I'm not everyone. This device seems like it will help people avoid incidents.
by JeffKazzee | 2025-09-19 17:56:05+00:00
Thanks for all of your hard work and commitment, Will! You've put everything into it, but its turning into something far more than some other companies that are much larger.

Thanks for being such a kind, caring guy. I have been here for a long time now, using Dyad. It's often becoming my main choice for designing and prototyping on things when I have a bit of inspiration.

I hope you find all the success out there, man. You're a genuinely good guy and it really shows in the way you do business. Have a wonderful time. Reach great heights.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-19 17:57:02+00:00
> mention a maintainer in violation of CoC.

Is he a Ruby maintainer? First I've heard of this...

> know plenty of Rubyists in Europe who these days find DHH as a person to be completely odious

Different circles I guess. I live in Europe half the year and most of the Europeans I know are way more right wing than DHH...