MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-09-21 02:36:06+00:00
I didn't say they didn't have an ethnic identity! I live just outside of Berwyn! I used to live on the north side! There are obviously Poles in Chicago. I asked if you could point to a way in which Polish concentration in Chicago had distorted our politics, especially since your source is mostly about how the Poles got stuffed by people who were here longer than them.

Now we're talking about Singapore for some reason. Is that a concession that you can't identify the aldermen who are illegitimated by their immigrant support?
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-21 02:36:44+00:00
That was the last Mac I ever bought for both those reasons. Sure, I had my replacement keyboard, but it was doomed to fail just like the last one. The Touch Bar seemed cool but then it was discontinued, so goodbye ever seeing any more integrations.

I want to believe that a department at Apple, deep in the basement of some outbuilding, knows that there are people like me who feel so let down by them. Maybe if you can find them and you know the secret knock then they’ll slide open a hatch and say sorry before telling you to leave? Sorry.

Ten years later and I am of course much happier with my FOSS laptop.
by neilv | 2025-09-21 02:37:17+00:00
On an SSD or HDD, it would occasionally be useful to have an eink display that indicates faults, wear, and thousands of hours operated.

Maybe also show the drive label and something about the partition table, although that requires inspecting the storage contents.

I wouldn't pay much more for that, though, and I don't know how many people would pay any premium at all.
by mkl | 2025-09-21 02:37:20+00:00
My parents have a similar 3×3×3 puzzle, that they couldn't remember how to solve, so most times someone visited them and had a go at it, the puzzle would be left in pieces until I next visited and put it back together. One Christmas I wrote a similar solver in Python and found there were 16 solutions, only a few of which I had found (though most I had seen only once). I printed out diagrams for each solution made with Matplotlib, so now the puzzle can always be put back together. My grandmother had a different 3×3×3 one that turned out to have something like 100-200 solutions.
by JackC | 2025-09-21 02:38:30+00:00
Cases are being filed -- of ones with decisions, about 138 successful cases to block executive actions so far, and 91 unsuccessful. https://apnews.com/projects/trump-executive-order-lawsuit-tr...

Meanwhile the Supreme Court has granted 16 out of 19 emergency petitions filed by the executive to overturn those rulings, grants that often require shifts in precedent without written reasoning, leading a Justice voting in the minority to describe the Court's current shadow docket practice as "Calvinball."

So (a) they are filing cases (b) they are winning (c) the Supreme Court is giving every indication that the law will be whatever it needs to be to have those cases ultimately lose.
by nialv7 | 2025-09-21 02:38:38+00:00
I have bought PYREX branded cookwares that claimed to be borosilicate, but are not actually borosilicate.

You can't visually tell borosilicate and soda-lime apart easily. There is no difference in color (the green vs blue difference is because of other impurities). There is no significant different in refractive index. The only reliable test you can do at home is density (soda-lime 2.52, whereas borosilicate ~2.23, unit g/cm^3).

I measured my "borosilicate" cookwares and all of them are in the ~2.5 range. Turns out they just false advertise. A couple "made in China" beakers I got on Amazon turned out to be borosilicate though. Take that however you will.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 02:39:38+00:00
As a dev it doesn’t matter to me but as a person who also thinks about business I think a B2B with a recurring business is a good business in terms of making money. It is easy to go to a VC and say this business will have such and such an ARR and can be valued at so much. And even if you are just treading water and not moving forward customers will still be writing checks.

For many other kind of products you can’t get a break. Say you make a great game, you will sell a certain number of copies and then you have to make another game. There are live service games of various sorts, like, I am playing Arknights now, but that kind of game requires continually putting development effort in to keep players busy.

Something like Basecamp can keep cashing checks and all you have to do is pay the AWS bills and occasionally do some maintainance.
by coder543 | 2025-09-21 02:40:03+00:00
This post[0] seemed to be the main source of confusion, but it has since been updated at the bottom to apologize and say it wasn’t true.

You don’t need some kind of special charger.

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/13/iphone-17-pro-fast-charging-p...
by 10000truths | 2025-09-21 02:40:49+00:00
One of the niceties of Zig's build system is its batteries-included support for targeting an explicitly provided glibc version. No need for alternate sysroots or dedicated old-distro containers like you would with the traditional C/C++ compilers, all you have to do is append it to the target triplet, like so:

zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.17 file.c
by peteforde | 2025-09-21 02:43:59+00:00
I recently backed NeoBlade, which is an ultrasonic multi-blade cutting device for crafters. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hozodesign/neoblade

TL;DR it's really freaking cool, though the blades do seem to get dull fairly quickly. That said, they are made of a radically different grade of steel.

If the tech in the NeoBlade has been adapted successfully to the chef's knife, then all of the haters are going to sound like all of the early "you don't need an air fryer" pundits who totally missed the point and were clearly wrong.

Also, all of the "why would I care if I can aerosolize citrus" commenters have clearly never worked in a cocktail bar. Which isn't a knock; this is Hacker News, after all. Just know that there are people who make fancy drinks who would pay a lot to be able to do this easily. If you are the sort of person who spends time thinking about clear ice, you don't need this explained to you.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-21 02:45:53+00:00
I read Gov Greg Abbott's book Broken but Unbowed -- I am generally not his supporter, but grew up among semi-conservative Texans under Governor Ann Richards (D) — loved her wit (she was also a family friend, Beloved Woman)!

An (the only) interesting concept that Gov Abbott (R) explores in his book is about the US States' collective right (under our Constitution) to call for a national convention for ANY REASON, initiated by a super-majority of states in mutual agreement on topic only, in order to propose Amendments (all prior were done by the Federal Congressional route).

This seems like the most-reasonable solution to introduce some sort of technology bill of rights (e.g. privacy; AI governance; data collection practices; right to cancel; opt-ins) — to address limitations to our geriatric Congress' inability to get with the goddamn modern times. We still operate on telecommunications laws from the friggin' eighties!!!

We might as well overhaul all of healthcare, too... and this really isn't too far fetched (I don't have the book in front of me... but there have been prior attempts to call such state conventions, decades ago).

...perhaps end Citizens' United? It's certainly time for some citizen initiative (via our State Congresses).

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If Sir Glubb's Fate of Empires taught me anything, most societial governances don't last too much longer than 250 years (¡happy birthday USA!). I think ours can, with massive but only with massive overhaul.

Giving advice to Gov Abbott: you're doing a great job for your state as Governor; stay there (don't run for president, again — you'll just waste time better-spent preparing Texas for what's next?); perhaps you should lift the boot up off your citizens' impoverished throats just. a. little. bit. ...but otherwise, Keep Texas Beautiful. [and say `hi` to James for me — it's been too long].
by Swizec | 2025-09-21 02:47:56+00:00
> It's reasonable and natural to have a mental model that the control moves the observer. (move a control up to aim your eyes up)

> It's also reasonable and natural to have a mental model that the control moves the object. (move a control down to "grab" the object and move it down)

I use opposite directions on my trackpad and my scrollwheel, take that! Ha!

Trackpad I’m grabbing with my fingers so I want the surface to move in the same direction as my fingers.

Scrollwheel I feel like is a roller that sits on top of the surface so I have to roll down to make the surface move up.

Unfortunately, at least in macos, you need 3rd party software to achieve this
by flykespice | 2025-09-21 02:47:58+00:00
Lol, on the reverse turing level 42 I failed on my first attempt because I tried to engage a normal conversation with the bot on personal affairs (just like I usually do with ChatGPT), then on my next attempt I just threw a bunch of GenZ slang and mems like "m8", "sybau", "deez nuts" and I quickly passed.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-21 02:48:30+00:00
> Banning executive orders is nonsense; you can’t have an executive branch with a head and prohibit the head from giving direction to the rest of the executive branch.

Sort of. The executive order was originally used for routine administrative orders. Later their usage expanded, but they were still required to be based on either an expressed or implied congressional law, or the constitution itself.

Now, presidents use them to invent law from scratch as Kings once did. They often do so under the flimsiest of pretense, if they bother with pretense at all.

It is this type that should be banned, or more accuratly: existing laws should be enforced.
by voidfunc | 2025-09-21 02:48:57+00:00
> the game couldn't be played realistically.

I think I found your problem..., trying to take a game too seriously.

I've played thousands of hours of SimCity 2000, 3000 and 4 and I treat them as what they are, incredibly fun city building sandboxes with illusory and believable but flawed simulations under the hood.
by pieterk | 2025-09-21 02:50:10+00:00
Hey Rohan, congratulations on the publication.

I was trying to feed it an assembly drawing as an example, and the research preview on Hugging Face did not generate any results resembling the drawing. Could you give some advice on what is a good input?

Thanks!

One example of a drawing is https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/418/1377-CrimpTool-121032..., I also tried cropping out parts of the drawing to no avail
by notjoemama | 2025-09-21 02:50:31+00:00
Why is this posted on hacker news? Seems ill fitting...

That aside, it sounds like the FBI set him up maybe? If that's the case, can we NOT play political sports-ball and do this to every other politician regardless of party?

I mean, I receive fake emails and texts testing whether I give up privileged information from the company I work for as ongoing security awareness training. Soooo...maybe we need to do something similar with government employees?
by fatchan | 2025-09-21 02:51:54+00:00
You misread the bandwidth cost part of my comment.

A $28/mo (Australian) vimeo subscription, or the "Advanced" $91/mo plan include the same 2TB bandwidth/month for viewers of your videos.

If you upload a 100MB video and it gets 20000 views the whole way through, you are now in the "contact sales" category of pricing.

This is why Youtube has a monopoly, because you've been badly tricked into thinking this pricing is fair and that 2TB is in any way shape or form adequate.
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-21 02:52:48+00:00
Yeah, "shipped and sold by Amazon.com" was essentially selling and shipping millions of dollars of fully counterfeit products under this program for years. If a small vendor does something like this, they'd have the fed kicking down their door after tens of thousands.

I personally received counterfeit and tampered products "shipped and sold by Amazon.com" on half a dozen occasions. Even as recently as the last two months.
by zug_zug | 2025-09-21 02:53:33+00:00
We are usually skeptical. And I don't know why a weird ad for a smart-knife has gotten to the top-page of HN.

We don't like "buzz" and "hype"... if it's truly a great technology we can buy one a year from now. Not trusting a commercial to be honest isn't undue skepticism.

Well said.
by NedF | 2025-09-21 02:54:48+00:00
> That's good point

Why is it a good point?

Do you get disease at a rate we care about from smelling a fart? Or smelling raw chicken? Or cooking chicken and the aerosolize particles off that?

The tool seems to melt going off similar tech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwHDWlA7gE

Why does you brain think it's a good point other than you want to be negative? Because nihilism is cooler than thinking?

Dentists do ultrasonic scaling, which a ultrasonic water spray and are not dropping like flies.

What is the good point here, tell us more, love to hear it.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-21 02:55:14+00:00
> Some people invert Y but not X. This is the most surprising to me. Most I've seen invert both. I don't remember having seen someone invert X but not Y.

Interesting, because I've never seen someone invert X. They either invert Y, or neither. Personally I invert Y only in flight games, anything else feels wrong to me.
by dividuum | 2025-09-21 02:58:41+00:00
I wrote a solver for a similar puzzle: IIRC it was 3x3x3 with different shaped pieces that left some space unfilled. Some of the pieces had holes and you additionally had three 3-long metal rods to place inside somewhere. I ran my code and it didn’t find a solution. Best it could do was fit all wooden pieces and two of those rods through holes inside the pieces. [Spoiler] Turns out, the solution was to ignore to rods first, leave a 3x1x1 “tunnel” and put all three rods in there, completely ignoring the holes in the wooden pieces. I remember being slightly annoyed :-)
by fatchan | 2025-09-21 02:59:13+00:00
Yeah, currently hosting LLHLS edge nodes in US + EU and caching CDN worldwide. The base cost grows if you have an audience of e.g. 2000 live viewers for a 2mbps stream = 4gbps.

Could be a lot cheaper and less need for global distribution if low latency weren't a requirement. And by low latency I mean the video stream you watch is ~2s behind reality just like Youtube, Twitch, Kick, etc. If your use case is VOD or can tolerate 10s latency streaming, single PoP works fine.

The point is that if I chose Vimeo or AWS/GCP/Azure for this, at their bandwidth pricing my (in my opinion modest) usage would be costing tens of thousands of dollars monthly, which it most certainly does not.

Managed service pricing and the perception of it needs to change, because it feels like a sham once you actually do anything yourself.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-21 02:59:19+00:00
First, I had a similar feeling coming back to SimCity 4. Even a just a few years ago, I tried to optimize for maximum density and size - kinda like NYC where I lived.

Now I don't find that interesting and much more interested to sustain a leafy suburb like one I've chosen for my kids.

Second, it's not just games. In my NYC days I was a "transit and bike lanes" guy all the way. Now with kids, I understand why "Americans love their cars" - it switched form a derogatory statement to one of understanding. There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios.

There's less "objective good" or "objective bad" in these matters than I used to think. It's more about who you optimize for.
by throw4f324ty | 2025-09-21 03:00:37+00:00
> The "official" data reported by China can't be attempted to be believed. Most of it is highly manipulated. Attempts at independent verification are punished, or blocked by making the raw data a state secret.

This has not been really true for at least a decade.

Well they might attempt to play with statistics, there are definitely foreign investigative reports that are able to verify most numbers, especially when it comes to exports.

And most of those foreign numbers are very close to what China reports.
by commandar | 2025-09-21 03:01:58+00:00
> they would let random retailers fill the order with fake products

What made this all particularly insidious is that Amazon not only commingled inventory, but actively refused to track where inventory came from.

This meant you only needed one fraudulent seller to poison the entire inventory pool and there was no way know where the bad product came from because Amazon actively avoided being able to track it.

That's the aspect of it that always felt particularly malicious to me.
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-21 03:02:31+00:00
At a hacker conference in the early 2000s, I saw a maybe 5" cash register CRT screen on a tower server case. That was cool.

It inspired me much later to buy a 7" LCD for the same purpose. You can find them as Raspberry Pi accessories. Some of them have HDMI input, most use USB for power, and they are cheap - about 50€. The downside is that they tend to be almost bare circuit boards with a bit of plexiglass framing + stand.

There are also "DVD watching screens" for car headrests, which are more sturdy with a thick case. The downside there is that power supply (12, 1A or so) is more of a hassle, and good luck finding one without overscan. It's not in the specs if they have it or if it can be disabled.
by klodolph | 2025-09-21 03:04:07+00:00
I don’t think there’s any real insights there.

Containers tend to be coarse-grained. For example, maybe you are writing a program, so you put the entire build environment in a container. If you have lots of programs with different dependencies, do you need lots of containers? Do you need to rebuild lots of containers when dependencies change? Bazel is much more fine-grained, and in Bazel, each individual build action gets its own build environment.

By default, that build environment includes the host (build system) glibc, compiler, system headers, system libraries, etc. If you want repeatable builds, you turn that off, and give Bazel the exact glibc, compiler, libraries, etc. to use for building your program.

You get the isolation of containers, but much faster builds and better caching.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-21 03:04:31+00:00
Perception is what creates value. Nothing is unconnected. When perception is about resonance and interdependence as it is in the East, the economy functions as an arm of the state. The state is all that counts, which is how in China, the idea of ownership bows to the state. The West driven by individualism has an altogether different idea of what ownership is.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-21 03:04:32+00:00
You aren’t, but that concern is mostly superstition.

I work at a place with a huge phone fleet. We have interns study our telemetry and records because I kids like phones and they find ways to save us money. We allow for low friction replacements of phones at 12 months — the average replacement is ~27. The most common issues are cracked screens and excessive scratching on iPhone 16 and a Samsung I cannot recall. Batteries are only an issue for field devices subject to excessive cold or heat.

Unless you’re trying to keep the thing going 5 years, you’re likely seeing marginal benefits.
by rincebrain | 2025-09-21 03:04:54+00:00
My understanding from other anecdotes about Microsoft is that a lot of their internal tooling, for a very long time, remained the kind of hideous nightmare of interwoven dependencies and build times measured in hours that we try to avoid in most modern setups.

I would speculate that in most parts of the company that haven't been left to rot that's hopefully no longer true, but I have no direct anecdotes about that, I just would have assumed it to be a target for someone looking for their iteration cycles to be saner at some point, and once one group managed it, etc.
by klodolph | 2025-09-21 03:06:17+00:00
JFC the author has done everything wrong here.

A heterogenous build cluster with non-hermetic builds and shared caching. The fact that this is only a glibc symbol versioning problem and not something far more severe is, well, a blessing.

At the bare fucking minimum, I would expect the CI builds to have a homogenous configuration and their own cache, not writable from outside CI. If you’re lazy, just wipe the cache every time you upgrade the CI cluster. Maybe I’ve just been living too long in environments where we care about artifact provenance and I’m blind to the whims of people who don’t care about provenance.

I want to feel sympathetic, because I know Bazel is a pain in the ass to learn, but it sounds like the author was juggling knives in a windstorm and caught a few pointy ends.
by jeffbee | 2025-09-21 03:07:03+00:00
You make it sound simple. Bazel's docs are minimal and what exists is often wrong. For a C or C++ toolchain you might turn to a contributing project such as toolchains_llvm, but even those experts are still figuring it out, and they give you little guidance on how to assemble your sysroot, which is the actual issue in the article. And, the upstream distributions of LLVM are built under certain assumptions, so unless you know exactly what you are doing, you probably also want to build LLVM instead of using their archives. If you figure out how to build LLVM in a completely consistent and correct way with respect to the STL and support libraries, you will be perhaps the 3rd or 4th person in history to achieve it.