MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2025-09-23 12:37:22+00:00
Well, they did get caught. But for that to happen immediately would require a detection method that can point out the presence of a farm with only a few samples. SIMs don't know their 'physical location' and triangulation of signals in these bands in the urban environment is non trivial.

Whoever did this likely isn't all that happy that their carefully created infra was used to harass officials, which most likely is the single reason this operation got uncovered in the first place. If it would have just been used for low level crime who knows how long they could have continued to do this.

Note that these are not unique to NYC or even to the United States, they've been found in other countries as well, the UK has now criminalized possession or operation of these (but the fines are so low that I don't think it will make much difference).
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-23 12:37:30+00:00
Walking is a great way to experience a place properly. I only discovered how much I enjoy walking during the lockdowns a few years ago when taking long walks was the only entertainment. I mostly walk around Berlin where I live. Exploring the areas in between the destinations where I normally by simply walking through them (as opposed to taking public transport and not seeing or noticing these areas), shows you a lot about a city.

Michigan City looks like a friendly enough place. Not that dissimilar from the working class areas here in Berlin. Lots of Berliners that live a bit further from the center.

One note, spectacular as that coal plant might look; living that close to one is not that great for your health. Coal plant pollution tends to affect health statistics (average age, incidence of lung related problems, etc.).
by simgt | 2025-09-23 12:37:32+00:00
I share your opinions on the EU, sadly. Von Der Leyen and many others did a great job making skeptics of people like us.

However, I disagree that stopping to buy Russian fossil fuels is a great short term goal. It's not like they would ever have left it in the ground and go bankrupt as a consequence. While we buy shale oil and LNG from the US at a premium price, Russia just sells its supply to other countries, which use it to produce our food or manufactured goods. It's making us poorer and weaker but we can pretend our euros aren't buying weapons to kill Ukrainians.

We don't have natural resources, factories, armies, but at least we have the highest horse.
by bmelton | 2025-09-23 12:37:52+00:00
The speech itself may be protected, but it endangers ABC's broadcast license. If ABC knowingly broadcasts a lie the broadcast of that lie causes harms, then it is in violation of FCC's section 73.1217, which specifically exists to thwart against "Broadcast Hoaxes"

In fairness to the provision, I think it's outdated, and I've argued against its relevance and that it seems unlikely to me to stand up in any court that interprets 1A jurisprudence to a modern standard, but the law exists and exists specifically to prevent against broadcast lies.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/73.1217
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-23 12:38:20+00:00
> that is not backwards compatible

This would be a massive breaking change for Kubernetes. There are piles and piles of YAML all around the opensource that would need updating. It would be very hard to adopt.

Also, quoting strings 100% of the time just looks ugly in my opinion. Not a big deal with autogenerated YAML, or YAML that I do not maintain, but for anything handwritten it's annoying.
by zorobo | 2025-09-23 12:39:04+00:00
> Surprisingly, BEVs are _more_ visible in the country side (where many smaller models make complete sense as a "second car" for a household that needs to drop kids at school, get the groceries, etc...) than in cities. Never mind.

Not that surprising; countryside folks own houses and can charge at home for cheap, while city dwellers generally can't and have to use overpriced, inconvenient public charging.
by nilkn | 2025-09-23 12:39:11+00:00
Front-line workers have a conflict of interest (AI making their jobs easier may lead to layoffs); they're incentivized to be productive, but not so productive that they or a peer they like ends up without a job. That conflict of interest becomes extremely strong when most companies around them are already conducting layoffs, they already know people personally who've been laid off, and hiring remains at a low level compared to the 2010s and early 2020s.

Executives don't care about any of that and just want to make the organization more efficient. They don't care at all if the net effect is reducing headcount. In fact, they want that -- smaller teams are easier to manage and cheaper to operate in nearly every way. From an executive's standpoint, they have nothing to lose: the absolute worst-case scenario is it ends up over-hyped and in the process of rolling it out they learned who's willing to attempt change and who's not. They'll then get rid of the latter people, as they won't want them on the team because of that personality trait, and if AI tooling is broadly useful they won't even bother backfilling.
by kentonv | 2025-09-23 12:39:23+00:00
> Is there a structured concurrency library being used to manage the chained promise calls

Cap'n Web has no dependencies at all. All the chaining is implemented internally. Arguably, this is the main thing the library does; without promise chaining you could cut out more than half the code.

> If an await call is never added, would function calls continue to build up taking up more and more memory

Yes. I recommend implementing rate limits and/or per-session limits on expensive operations. This isn't something the library can do automatically since it has no real idea how expensive each thing is. Note you can detect when the client has released things by putting disposers on your return values, so you can keep count of the resources the client is holding.
by herculity275 | 2025-09-23 12:39:24+00:00
Reminds me, there was a Stephen King interview from a ~decade ago where he observed that when he passes away his son (Joe Hill) could probably keep publishing under his name for at least a few years since he's perfected imitating King's general style.

I think the distinction, for me, is that when I pay for a book I want access to the author's creative thoughts and personality, not just their particular "brand". I realize that a lot of readers don't care, especially in the YA space, but I'd rather read a worse novel from the person who conceived The Hunger Games than a perfect imitation from someone who's merely imitating the brand.
by unsexyproblem | 2025-09-23 12:39:24+00:00
Good question. At the time I was building alone as a student, and starting with a Figma plugin was simply the fastest way to test the core idea: can AI actually generate slides people want to use?

The plugin gave us quick feedback from a smaller but design-savvy community, which helped validate the concept before investing in a full standalone app. We learned where it fell short (limited reach, constrained workflows), and that feedback directly pushed us to build the standalone version you see now.

In hindsight, going standalone earlier might have reached more users, but starting small made it possible to iterate quickly and not overbuild.
by vintermann | 2025-09-23 12:39:30+00:00
Ultrasonic humidifiers require ridiculously clean water. Even regular distilled water is scarcely clean enough. You need to clean the water tank ridiculously well, ridiculously often. No one actually uses an ultrasonic humidifier like it's "supposed" to be used. When the water isn't industrially clean, everything dissolved in it is turned very efficiently into tiny particles. You'll get a fine white mineral dust everywhere.

Ionizing air purifiers make ozone and the makers claim either that it's a good thing or that it's too little to worry about. The first is wrong, the second is a bad sell because the thing it's supposed to be removing is also (by itself) not a big health risk on any single day; the health benefit from removing particles is likely eaten up by the negative health effects of the ozone. You can clean air without ionization, so why? As far as I can tell, it's a pure marketing gimmick, the need to seem high-tech outweighs the actual utility of the thing. (That's also probably why ultrasonic humidifiers are popular, you can see the fog)
by unsexyproblem | 2025-09-23 12:40:08+00:00
Gamma focuses on generating polished, mostly read-only decks. Snapdeck’s main difference is that everything stays fully editable — layouts, visuals, and charts can be dragged, restyled, or updated with natural-language commands. We also built an orchestration layer on top of open-source and commercial models to handle structured inputs like Notion pages or websites.
by bjackman | 2025-09-23 12:40:37+00:00
Yeah and this is enforced by default in yamllint.

It's very fair to cry "why the hell do I need a linter for my trivial config file format", and these footguns are a valid reason to avoid YAML.

But overall YAML's sketchiness is a pretty easy problem to solve and if you have a good reason to keep/choose YAML, and a context where adding a linter is viable, it's not really a big deal IMO.

And as hinted in the post, there's really no well-established universal alternative. TOML is a good default but it's only usable for pretty straightforward stuff. I'm personally a fan of the "just use Nix" approach but you can't put a Nix interpreter everywhere. And Cue is way overpowered for most usecases.

I guess the tldr is that the takeaway isn't "don't use YAML" but just "beware of YAML footguns, know the alternatives".
by storus | 2025-09-23 12:40:39+00:00
Because it's true. Most EU countries aren't built to have 100% EV. Not every country is Norway. Spanish or Czech grids collapse from hot weather already, how much worse would it be when you suddenly plug millions of vehicles? With 220V one would need 1-2 days to fully charge continuously to get to 100% depending on battery size; perfect timing is a wishful thinking, you'd get peak charging times as well. Speed chargers are very few and their price is now approaching gas prices already, and electric grid can't bear many of them anyway.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-09-23 12:41:23+00:00
Someone, or a group of someones, has to be responsible for sending a threat to close down a customers account. (assuming the customer is in fact acting in good faith, honourable, and so on)

Wether that’s giving a serious punishment to one oversealous employee, or a light reprimand to everyone in a department, there has to be some action taken to regain credibility. (along with proof that such action was taken)
by coder543 | 2025-09-23 12:42:21+00:00
Outside air isn’t a panacea. There is often plenty of pollution right outside your window unless you live on an idyllic beachfront property. The humidity level outside is also rarely what you want in your home, whether it is too high or too low.

Much better than cracking a window is the use of ERVs (energy recovery ventilators) and air filters on the incoming air.

An ERV is a fairly simple device that exchanges air with the outside while mitigating the loss of energy and humidity.

Any modern home build likely has an ERV as part of the design, but it’s not like they can’t be retrofitted, and I’ve even seen some DIY-friendly window unit ERVs (but I’ve never heard if those are any good).
by wildzzz | 2025-09-23 12:42:28+00:00
Oh lol, this is a scam site. Yes, there are potential other uses for a sim box but mostly they are used for VoIP purposes. It's honestly so hard reading quotes from the US government these days. Cartels, drugs, guns. They make it sound like they interrupted the staging of an assault on the UN when the article actually says that the locations were within 35 miles of the UN headquarters in NYC. This is a significant distance as it covers beyond the 5 boroughs, it's the "tri state area". Like 20M people live in that circle. I highly doubt this is for anything other than VoIP scams.
by ageitgey | 2025-09-23 12:43:03+00:00
I owned an ID.3. It was a great car held back by just passable software. But much of the software issue was a non-issue in real life since Android Auto or Carplay would take over the screen. But the failure was big enough for VW that they went into business with Rivian and paid $1B to get their software tech for future vehicles.

The ID.3 was never sold in the US (too "small"), so you wouldn't have seen it in CA.

The ID series is a ground-up electric platform with a lot more space inside. The e-Golf is just a Golf with a (poor) electric engine and battery bolted on.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 12:43:06+00:00
You seem to be talking around the issue? Sprinkled with misinformation. Please do tell me when the Spanish and Czech grid collapsed due to "hot weather".

Of course not at all engaging with the point about BEVs acting like demand response for a grid. Scheduling their charging to not add more load when the grid is already strained, unless forced to do so due to e.g. being on a roadtrip without possibility of timing the charging and therefore paying a premium for expensive electricity.

All in all I see a lot of hand waving and little substance.

Did you miss the portion where on average the refinement of raw crude to gasoline/diesel is neutral in terms of electricity usage compared to just driving a BEV?
by SafeDusk | 2025-09-23 12:43:07+00:00
Agents enabled me to quickly implement and test out papers by treating them as LLM workflows with composable tools instead of direct implementation.

I have a <a href="https://blog.toolkami.com/alphaevolve-toolkami-style/">blog post</a> detailing this.

[1]: https://blog.toolkami.com/alphaevolve-toolkami-style/
by pfdietz | 2025-09-23 12:43:34+00:00
I'd say in any sufficiently complex program, random testing is not only useful, it's essential, in that it will quickly find bugs no other approach would.

Even better, it subsumes many other testing paradigms. For example, there was all sorts of talk about things like "pairwise testing": be sure to test all pairwise combinations of features. Well, randomly generated tests will do that automatically.

I view random testing as another example of the Bitter Lesson, that raw compute dominates manually curated knowledge.
by Luker88 | 2025-09-23 12:43:35+00:00
Ah, to be young and new here.

TSMC (taiwan) is the only company that has reached the latest and greatest chips tech. Apple gets their chips from Taiwan only. AMD. Intel. Everyone.

Taiwan does not let TSMC export the latest tech, exactly because they would lose USA protection.

...basically it's a 160B$ industry with something like 70% of the global output, as per last year data.

Now imagine Taiwan blowing up the industry to prevent China from controlling it, or China destroying the industry to crash the global economy, weaken the USA protection and come back a few years later.

China will not be affected much by the sudden non-existence of Taiwan Chip industry. They produce everything internally. The rest of the world would be thrown 5+ years back in terms of tech, and I don't even want to know how much it will take to ramp up older production elsewhere.

Remember the problems caused by Covid, where the car industry had problems getting chips? That was a mere shift in who gets the chips first, the production was still there.

70% less global chip production? Buy a cars/computers/whatever as soon as China invades, it's going to last you for a while.
by nickjj | 2025-09-23 12:44:02+00:00
I don't think distributions or OS vendors focus on that because imagine the outrage if you installed Windows and it pre-installed Zoom, Spotify and 80 other apps for you out of the box.

I think it's popular because DHH turned dotfiles into a product and it's being marketed as a distro. Arch + (Hyprland, Waybar, Walker and Mako) are all really popular and standlone tools that make up a reasonable looking desktop environment which Omarchy happens to use too.

I have nothing against it. If it gets more people using Linux, that is a huge win. I just find it fasinating to see it from the outside.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-23 12:44:05+00:00
My cheap Chinese PM2.5 sensors (PMS7003) installed both outside and inside provide accurate readings all year round. They track official government data very closely (monitored by expensive and certified equipment that goes through calibration every year).

My problem with this advice is not that it's difficult to measure pollution levels (it really isn't), but that there's no "fresh air" outside for many of us. In many parts of the world, the air is significantly worse outside than inside even without running an air purifier (and with a purifier the difference in particulate levels can run into 100× or more during winter).

Some years ago I looked at the few papers that measured the difference in gaseous pollutants (like NO2 and SO2) inside and outside with windows open and windows closed, and for some reason closed windows do provide limited protection against them. Nobody really understands why AFAIK, it shouldn't work that way since they're mixed with air in a gaseous mixture from which they can't be filtered out without a specialized chemical filter, but it does help.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-09-23 12:44:12+00:00
This is not a new norm (LLM aside).

Old man time, providing unsolicited and unwelcome input…

My own way of viewing interviews: Treat interviews as one would view dating leading to marriage. Interviewing is a different skillset and experience than being on the job.

The dating analogue for your interview question would be something like: “Can you cook or make meals for yourself?”.

- Your answer: “No. I’m great in bed, but I’m a disaster in the kitchen”

- Alternative answer: “No. I’m great in bed; but I haven’t had a need to cook for myself or anyone else up until now. What sort of cooking did you have in mind?”

My question to you: Which ones leads to at least more conversation? Which one do you think comes off as a better prospect for family building?

Note: I hope this perspective shift helps you.
by storus | 2025-09-23 12:44:21+00:00
I agree it's a nice car but value-wise it can't compete even with KIA Stonic. Spring is terrible due to a very low range, agreed. I think we need two more generations of batteries to make EVs fully usable, ideally 800-1000km for a single charge or 80% charge after 10 minutes for a mid-size SUV.
by maxbond | 2025-09-23 12:44:54+00:00
Halloween isn't for a few more weeks, but this framework for creating bespoke YAML dialects that can only be parsed by a specific implementation and with the correct type annotations will scare the pants off of your devops colleagues around the campfire.

(In case I haven't succeeded in hitting the right tone, this is intended to be good-natured jest and not snark.)
by bez00m | 2025-09-23 12:45:04+00:00
> the scenario you describe where countries are blocked purely out of political or personal reasons does exist

In my experience the reason is one of the following:

1. Following the local jurisdiction. By far the most common one, and one I have least questions for. At least not to the companies who implement this policy - someone over here already posted the consequences of not complying. Big companies often care to say "nothing personal, buddy, strictly business", but nothing more as in the OP's case with Microsoft.

2. Avoiding the attacks, as you said. I definitely agree they exist. And I can imagine every Cloudflare block page I've seen is because of that, but in my experience it's maybe 5-10% of all blockings I experienced.

3. Political activism. What my comment was about. It's always either individuals or small companies. It's always outrageously dumb and pathetic (obviously, except when it comes from an actual victim) and just does the job opposite to the proclaimed intention.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-23 12:45:27+00:00
This is actually nonsense, and it's silly that so many people repeat it as a justification of the corrupt, repressive Cuban regime when it's so easy to refute. The U.S. sanctions apply mainly to US companies and entities, and while they can sometimes be applied to companies in other countries, it's rare, and even more so for other countries as a whole. I know for a fact that many major countries regularly trade with Cuba. Are you going to now say that Canada has been cut off from U.S. trade because it also trades with Cuba? That's news to me. (Trump's idiotic tariff war notwithstanding since it's from a separate cause)
by lloeki | 2025-09-23 12:46:14+00:00
I don't see how EU would have any bearing on China's policy to buy gas.

By definition if any money not spent by the EU is somehow compensated by China buying the then-unsold gas then EU decisions regarding spending money on Russian gas don't matter and the whole rhetoric falls on its face.

Germans were laughing at Trump because - however in a position of power he may be - he's a total clown. Everyone knew that the dependency was a problem, way before the war.

Fun fact, the U.S continues importing goods from Russia, including massive amounts of fertilisers, as well as palladium, uranium and plutonium.

But I see we're moving goalposts here, and the discussion is largely unproductive, so I'll disengage.
by Scion9066 | 2025-09-23 12:46:14+00:00
qBittorrent put out version 5.1.2 over 2 months ago:

> Wed Jul 02nd 2025 - qBittorrent v5.1.2 release > [...] > qBittorrent v5.1.2 was released. > SECURITY: It contains security fixes for the WebAPI, Rss and Search modules.
by slyall | 2025-09-23 12:46:21+00:00
Lots of stories on youtube seem to be AI written or highly assisted (With AI generated voices, subtitles and pictures).

I was listening to "HFY Sci-Fi" at one point but there are hundreds of channels with "Getting revenge on the Boss" or 50 other story genres. Each pumping out a new story every week. Some taken from other sources, some AI generated.
by onion2k | 2025-09-23 12:46:46+00:00
I've been making a point'n'click game recently, and generating the art using Flux.1 Dev and Flux.Konnect locally on a Mac Mini M1 with 8GB of RAM. It isn't quick (20m+ per image) but once I had the settings dialled in for the style I want it works really well.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-23 12:46:46+00:00
Good abstractions around units (Apologies if there is a specific terminology that I should use.)

Specifically, I'd like to be able to have "inches" as a generic type, where it could be an int, long, float, double. Then I'd also like to have "length" as a generic type where it could be inches as a double, millimeters as a long, ect, ect.

I know they added generic numbers to the language in C# 7, so maybe there is a way to do it?
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-23 12:46:51+00:00
Supposedly Airstream was sold to one of the RV Giants and quality has been deteriorating.

Basically an RV made by the smaller, newer companies that you've never heard of and have to do some research to find, are building quality stuff.

Liz Amazing is selling a PDF of recommendations that she put together from comments by people. (For $100, was 50% off, the 40%, now 25% off).
by wiredfool | 2025-09-23 12:46:53+00:00
Haven't done a backpack, but I do have a couple of leather laptop sleeves for the M#Airs. One is from scrap napa furniture leather (1mm chrome tanned), so it's soft and colorful, but doesn't protect as well. The other is ~2mm natural + pull up leather, so a bunch stiffer, to the point of being difficult to get the laptop in the first few times it was used.

Both of these sleeves are vertical envelope style, with a tucked tongue closure, and they're generally carried in some other backpack/bag. So these are basically the padding. They replaced _really_ low budget bubble wrap envelope laptop sleeves.

What I'd say from observation of the crafting/development process is that you're going to do one to figure out the issues and one to fix them all. (Or more, having seen a bunch of shoes made in my dining room)