MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 17:08:22+00:00
> "It seemed legitimate, there was no reason to think that it could be fake – if she could be a scammer, so could any of my actual friends."

Which isn't that far from the truth, eh.

Tupperware and Amway might be legit MLMs (there is a product attached, after all), but there are sooo many "side hustles" preying particularly on women that are outright scams - and inevitably the victims of these lose almost all of their friends and even family because they're all sick sooner or later from them constantly attempting to shill whatever supplements, insurances, shitcoins or kitchen gadgets they're currently dealing. It's truly heartbreaking to see people you know fall for that bullshit and get sucked into the vortex with no way of pulling them out.
by Theodores | 2025-09-15 17:08:33+00:00
That is quite a setup for the UK. I have gone for the frugal option, so that means I have a vehicle fleet that consists of one naturally aspirated bicycle augmented by electric train for longer journeys. In Scotland the trains run with electricity from wind farms, so I am okay with that.

However, from how you describe it, you are getting lower costs than me! My electricity bill is lower than the standing charge, but this adds up to more than what you are paying. Train fares also seem to be costing me more, although I have done well out of compensation for late trains recently, so my trips to the south of England are averaging out at around £100 for the return journey.

I am beginning to question my life choices. Frugal was the wrong way to go. Why do I need this cardiovascular exertion when I could be getting around for less in a two-tonne EV?

I think I missed the boat. Getting a feed in tariff is far from given these days and the government grants for solar ended about a decade ago.
by marxism | 2025-09-15 17:08:35+00:00
I really liked the definition of reverse-centaur

> A reverse-centaur is a machine that is assisted by a human being, who is expected to work at the machine’s pace.

This exactly describes the attitude of a PM I work with who makes abundant use of ChatGPT to generate PRDs.

We get so much crap for not keeping up with the flood of requirements. "Why don't you just plug my specs into Claude Code, review it, just tell Claude what needs to be fixed?" Its exhausting.

I really do feel like a reverse-centaur. I'm genuinely expected to work at the pace of this rube goldberg bullshit machine this PM has rigged up.
by conductr | 2025-09-15 17:08:37+00:00
Those exist and are still available but are fairly outdated in the US. The sealed lithium 10-year disposable is the newer standard. And, actually, building codes for last several year requires them to be hardwired so no batteries at all.

The landlord special on older construction (maybe >10 years old, can't remember when the hardwire code went into effect) will usually be the 9v. Because they don't care about you having to get on a ladder to change the battery every year. They get to save $5-10 per smoke detector. Practically any homeowner is going to choose the 10 year option as the batteries don't have to be swapped.
by natmaka | 2025-09-15 17:08:38+00:00
Japan: no comment nor "someone sees something" changes anything to the (already stated) facts: since Fukushima (2011) Japan did not restart its nuclear reactors and is quickly building renewables: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...

> the entire industrialized world is investing massively in both nuclear and renewables

Nope: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
by absurdwebsite | 2025-09-15 17:08:39+00:00
It’s a social experiment / game:

1. Everyone follows the same Instagram account.

2. Once it hits 100k followers, we randomly hand over the account to one follower.

3. That person instantly gets an audience of 100,000+ to start their influencer journey.

Read more rules: https://absurd.website/influencer-overnight/ Insta account -> https://www.instagram.com/influencer_overnight

Let’s see if this actually works. Could be fun if it really reaches 100k! :)
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-15 17:08:39+00:00
For Vector Search the top 2 are: Meta’s FAISS and (my) Unum’s USearch. Lucene powers Elastic, Solr, MongoDB Atlas, AWS OpenSearch, Azure Cognitive Search. USearch powers ClickHouse, DuckDB, YugaByte, TiDB, ScyllaDB, MemGraph, KuzuDB, Lantern, and a few big closed source names that don’t mention it, as far as I know. FAISS has the highest usage among Python developers, but if you are indexing large collections you should consider alternatives.
by Taek | 2025-09-15 17:09:00+00:00
Well, solar salesmen can be pretty slimy, hiding costs left and right. That said, the monopoly utility grids have a chokehold on power, and escaping that monopoly is often worth the 2-5x premium you are going to have to pay vs a utility scale project.

Plus, when people compare the cost of home solar vs utility solar, they often ignore all of the infrastructure (especially last mile infrastructure) that's needed to get the power from the utility scale solar farm to someone's house.

If you live somewhere with expensive electricity and decent sun (California, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, the Carolinas, etc) it's usually worthwhile to put solar on your home. It's less effective than if someone competent were to spend the same money improving the grid, but in this day and age that's a lot to ask.
by mholt | 2025-09-15 17:09:05+00:00
This page is to demonstrate that revocation is broken. There is no central revocation authority. Anyone can publish a revocation list, whether it's a CA or client vendors or Joe from his mom's basement.

I'm using the term "revocation list" loosely, as it can be as simple as a list of public keys to distrust. Client software can use any revocation list they want, AFAIK.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-09-15 17:09:15+00:00
" It seems likely that misaligned Minds are capable of predicting they’d lose any military action against the established core, so prefer toeing the line of acceptability or leaving Culture entirely. "

Isn't this how we force humans to adapt, or be 'aligned'.

How is human "alignment" different from AI "alignment".

At some point you realize the little guy can't win, so go with society. That's basically what this is describing happens to the minds.
by jschanck | 2025-09-15 17:09:21+00:00
Firefox / CRLite includes all revocations. The issue with this particular certificate is that the CRLite backend is behind on ingesting both of the CT logs that it appears in (Digicert wyvern2025h2 [1] and Let's Encrypt oak2025h2). So from CRLite's perspective the certificate doesn't exist yet.

In the very near future, CAs are going to start embedding signed CT timestamps from "static CT" logs [2]. Once that happens, the CRLite backend will be aware of certificates within minutes of issuance.

[1] The wyvern2025h2 shard had an outage last week, which is also part of the problem here https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/XpmIf....

[2] https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/static-ct-api.md
by theamk | 2025-09-15 17:09:39+00:00
A lot of those "visionary" voices are simply envisioning something that is completely impractical to implement.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu is a great example - it's core idea was that information is never deleted. This was literally baked into design - the main data storage is "append only". So sounds good on paper, but how was this supposed to be practical, especially with the high cost of storage back then?

Or that "unified document" with a workspace - sounds great on paper, until you start to think about more general use cases. A friend gives you few dozens of files on floppy (or you download from BBS), and you want to pass them to next friend. How do you do this easily without concept of "files"?

So there is no surprise that industry ignores "visionaries". It's easy to make a prototype and show it on presentation, but it's hard to make something actually usable.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-15 17:10:05+00:00
technically speaking, if your viewfinder has a different magnification, that is (to coin a word) Multiple Lens Reflex; you have added a lens. SLRs were invented to show you "what the camera sees" so you can tweak it perfectly on different dimensions.

you are describing a different system that does not show you what the camera sees. I'm not saying what you are talking about doesn't exist, I'm saying that your over-inclusivity takes away the value of describing what I described and is telling people "there's really nothing you can say, a million different things could be going on"
by smt88 | 2025-09-15 17:10:55+00:00
iOS, hands down. Why can I still not reply to messages from my notification drawer? Why doesn't the keyboard suggest contractions? Why don't I have a dedicated back button, like I did on Android? Why is Siri so astonishingly bad? Why are there 3-4 different settings (including the hardware mute switch!) that control volume? Why are hidden, undiscoverable gestures the only way to do important things?

I was forced to switch from Android 3 years ago, and I am shocked every day that the UX is so much worse.
by firesteelrain | 2025-09-15 17:10:57+00:00
3-6 newtons or about 0.7-1.3 pounds-force

Also it’s not 40k ft of wire. Altitude is 40k ft

The wire is about 16 ft for one leg of the dipole. That is the taught part. The other just floats in mid air underneath the payload

The community is very small and doubtful the sky will be filled with them

The balloons follow the jetstream from where they are launched. I have seen them fly over the Artic Circle, for example
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-15 17:11:21+00:00
This would depend on how worn they are. Here's an article describing a test a YouTuber did[1] that I watched some time ago. The worn drives did not fare that well, while the fresh ones did ok. Those were TLC drives though, for QLC I expect the result is overall much worse.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered...
by ndiddy | 2025-09-15 17:11:30+00:00
I don’t think it’s clickbait to say that Microsoft is forcing Copilot onto people’s computers just because they let you opt out if you know exactly where to go in the group policy editor, or that they know they can’t get away with pushing their AI service over Windows Update to force adoption in areas that actually bother regulating tech companies. I’m tired of Microsoft pulling bullshit like this and then people say “oh but you can turn it off if you dig through the group policy editor” or “you can opt out if you make this specific registry key”. Maybe I don’t enjoy having an adversarial relationship with my computer.
by skeletal88 | 2025-09-15 17:11:44+00:00
Depends on the part of the world, but in northern/central europe the production of panels from september/october to march is zero, 0, according to my colleague in his roof and many others have said the same. It is cloudy, it will rain a lot and during winter if there are no clouds then there are only.. a limited number of sunglight possible, and the sun is low, so most of the "power" is already absorbed by the atmosphere
by matt-aitken | 2025-09-15 17:11:45+00:00
Inngest is very similar to Trigger.dev version 2: it’s an API for queuing and orchestrating workflows. You need to divide your work into steps, where each step needs to have serializable inputs and outputs, and takes less than the timeout of your serverless function (if you're hosted on serverless).

Trigger.dev is a queue and workflow engine but we also run compute. This makes some things possible which aren’t when you only control one side:

1. No timeouts, you can run code for as long as you need. 2. You don’t need to divide your work into steps. If you want you can use multiple tasks. 3. You can install any system packages you need, like ffmpeg, Puppeteer etc. Depending on where you’re deploying this can be a problem with other tools. There are maximum bundle sizes on a lot of platforms which are surprisingly easy to hit. 4. Atomic versioning. Each deploy of your tasks is separate and any runs that have started will continue until finished, locked to that version of the code. This means you don’t need to think about versioning inside your code which can becomes messy and error prone.

One other note is that we’re Apache 2.0.
by GMoromisato | 2025-09-15 17:11:59+00:00
I don't think poverty and injustice should continue to exist. But I don't think that my writing that is going to magically eliminate either.

I think my (uncharitable) reading of TFA is:

1. Billionaires and tech hucksters want you to be a reverse-centaur. 2. Most people don't want to be reverse-centaurs. 3. Therefore, don't be a reverse-centaur, be a centaur instead.

As for what's going to happen with AI, I don't know. We're at point where we can no longer extrapolate the future from the past, and that's definitely scary.

But I'm an old Gen Xer, and I've lived through many of these scary moments. And I'm an optimist at heart, so I believe that, in the long arc of history, the future will be better than the past, even if I have to suffer now to make it so.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-15 17:12:06+00:00
And it doesn't even really matter if it's perfect. While they are subverting the intent of their users, they are also certainly subverting the intent of their advertisers and portraying a targeting ability that is an exaggeration of what they actually can do. The advertisers may even realize it; in advertising no targeting is perfect, and if your ads are within the blast radius of most of your intended eyeballs, that's good enough.
by tcgv | 2025-09-15 17:13:02+00:00
It’s actually more of a win-win situation if you look closely.

Stablecoin issuers earn yield from holding U.S. Treasuries, which sustains their business model. Meanwhile, people in distressed economies get practical access to a digital dollar, often cheaper and faster than navigating restrictive exchange rules or paying steep conversion fees at money-changers. That’s meaningful when local currencies are unstable or losing value.

Of course, not all stablecoin issuers are trustworthy, and some governments under economic distress may ban or limit these instruments. But when the setup works, both sides benefit.
by rurp | 2025-09-15 17:13:50+00:00
Yep, owning gives you a lot more control over your living situation. I do think the financial case is really overrated, especially if you get hit with some expensive repairs, but that's not what I like about owning a house. A lot of people, including myself, have had some really nasty scrambles when a lease didn't get renewed like they were expecting and suddenly had to move in a hurry. That can really suck, especially if it happens at a bad time like with a new kid or sick relative.

Owning also lets you invest in your space a lot more, and I'm not really talking about fancy remodels that cost tens of thousands. More like smaller projects like adding a nice catio, buying workout equipment that fits your space, or setting up a nice home office in a dedicated room. My partner and I held off on all sorts of purchases and projects like that while we were renting because each would have been a huge hassle to move, and might not have fit in the next place we lived. The costs are manageable for a long term improvement, but I wouldn't want to toss one out in a year. Now that we own a house we have have gone ahead with a lot of those additions and they make our living situation much more pleasant.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-15 17:14:21+00:00
Don't forget:

1) they have per-emptively excluded themselves, and ALL state security agencies. There will be no checking up on politician's messages. There will be no checking up on police communications. No checking up on secret service messages (not even for the many public activities of such services). There will be no double-checking what the IRS tells it's agents. There will be no checking on school teachers.

In other words: clearly these politicians see the value in hiding what they themselves do, and in hiding anything that might result in liability. There is no need to explain this to them.

Rather, the question to ask them is what they are asking us: "Why aren't YOU breaking with the 'totally erroneous perception' that you, a public servant, can't be checked upon?"

2) This even applies to WHAT will phones be scanned for. The politicians see no need to have public discussion of what they'll be searching for. Since they are obviously carefully choosing what to hide and what to show, the question should be framed correctly:

"Why won't you tell us what you're scanning people's phones for?"

"Also, give me your phone, I've got some things I want to check it for ... What exactly? Why do you expect ME to tell YOU that?"

3) Why they are letting foreign companies do the phone scanning? I mean you're going to let the security services scan phones to help secure the state ... and you're getting a FOREIGN company to do this? Again the question should be framed correctly:

"Can you show me what grades you received in kindergarten? Did you ever get your head stuck in a chair for 9 days in a row?"
by chuckadams | 2025-09-15 17:14:30+00:00
VR is still aspirational, but we already have AR making baby steps into everything. Every time you see a QR code for the menu burned into a restaurant table, you're looking at a sort of AR: the phone sees it differently than you. Then there's games, but that seems to be largely a passing fad, like 3D TV.

I know, it barely qualifies as AR... but while I love watching the bleeding edge of tech, I'm glad overall that we're slow-rolling this kind of thing.
by gruez | 2025-09-15 17:14:32+00:00
>I just installed graphene os on a brand new cash-bought pixel for the express purpose of not being left out of some important WhatsApp groups or missing out on some other experiences that require installing apps that I know won’t respect my privacy. I assume anything from Meta is hazardous at this point.

There isn't much point in the "cash-bought" part when android has blocked non-system apps from reading hardware identifiers years ago. Not to mention that facebook can easily deanonmyize you through your social graph.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-09-15 17:14:36+00:00
Speaking of cheap and powerful, I’m looking for a dirt cheap android phone that has a decent camera. I used to ship out GoPros to my customers but I don’t actually need them to film in 4K, 1080p with a decent CCD would be fine. And lately new GoPro models have become a pain to setup, they require pairing with a modern mobile phone which my customers sometimes don’t have.
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-15 17:15:21+00:00
The harder they squeeze...

I installed Linux - Debian 13 with the Gnome desktop - on a few machines which used to only run Windows. These machines are used by non-technical family members aged 14 to 50. When starting the machine they get the choice between booting either Debian or Windows with files on the older Windows installs being available from within the Linux sessions.

I recently checked which system was used most and was surprised to see that this ended up being Debian, on some machines Windows was not even started after I explained the workings of the machines. Linux has been 'ready for the desktop' for decades now while Microsoft is doing its best to make Windows less and less suitable for general-purpose desktop use. Even their former strongholds have withered, especially gaming is now better done on Linux than on recent Windows iterations. I suspect they know this and are trying to reap the last remaining fruit before the plantation succumbs to the self-inflicted disease since I see no other explanation for their clearly user-hostile actions.
by jdiez17 | 2025-09-15 17:15:22+00:00
> ...so how do you keep it secure? > Is hosting a RPi in space different from hosting one on the ground, reachable over the public internet? I assume it is, but tell me more!

It is somewhat different from a security point of view, but the gap between them is getting smaller. The main "obstacle" to hackers taking over your satellite is that it is somewhat difficult to set up a UHF/VHF/S-band ground station with enough transmit power to reach the satellite. And you need knowledge of the command protocol that the satellite uses. But ground stations are getting cheaper every day, IMO you can build a fairly capable transmitting setup for ~1000€. So the remaining protection is a form of security by obscurity: "we invented this command protocol, so nobody knows how it works". But that can obviously be defeated by recording ground station signals and some dedicated reverse engineers.

When those protections fall away, you'll find that a lot of satellite/CubeSat software out there is quite vulnerable (see https://jwillbold.com/paper/willbold2023spaceodyssey.pdf). You often find things like commands that are literally "arbitrary memory read/write". While they are a nightmare from a security point of view, they are extremely useful for operators of experimental satellites, e.g. to patch software in memory to fix bugs or read variables that are not exposed as telemetry. I have written a few of these patches myself, and my friend PistonMiner used them brilliantly to hack in a software update capability and revived a 15 year old CubeSat that was assumed to be dead - see their 38C3 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTcd94pVlY

If you ask me, the way to keep satellites secure is to basically apply the lessons that we have learned in terrestrial computing to space applications. Things like using encryption/authentication, process isolation backed by a MMU, memory safe languages, etc. That's what we're trying to do with RACCOON OS btw. You can take at the flight software of CyBEEsat, a 1U CubeSat that is launching soon(tm): https://gitlab.com/rccn/missions/cybeesat
by munificent | 2025-09-15 17:15:58+00:00
> An example that should be familiar to many software engineers is the taxicab metric, also known as the Manhattan distance. ... There are some unnamed geometries in between, but if n approaches infinity, we get what’s called the Chebyshev distance.

I like to think of these two metrics and "rook" and "queen" distance. Manhattan distance is how far away two points are if you are traversing using a rook in chess which can only move horizontally and vertically. Chebyshev distance is how far they are if you can also move diagonally.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-15 17:16:01+00:00
The difference is that Google is by far in a much more dominant position and every dev who leverages Chrome-specific APIs further entrenches that dominance. In the browser space, Apple is the long-trailing runner-up and has far less impact.

It appears that this particular API is restricted to embedded webviews, too (doesn’t work in Safari), so it has no bearing on the open web, unlike APIs such as WebUSB in Chrome.
by marssaxman | 2025-09-15 17:16:21+00:00
My wife's pet cat leaves and returns whenever he wants to. While he may not share our capacity for language, his communication of his preferences - nay, requirements - was clear, forceful, sustained, and (eventually) effective.

If a Culture mind were faced with human behavior equivalent to pissing on everything but the litterbox and bolting for the door at every opportunity, I imagine they'd eventually get tired of playing jailer and let their pets go, too.
by anthony_d | 2025-09-15 17:16:23+00:00
> > His point is not that black people are less capable but that DEI policies [cause] looser standards > These ideas are equivalent…

You’re grossly failing at basic logic here. One case is describing racism and one being racist. Those things are not the same.

> They don't believe that there are black people who are qualified…

Again, you’re failing at basic reading comprehension but now it looks intentional.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-15 17:16:31+00:00
Most people if they know, don't care. They don't see an issue with their data being harvested and sold. They think "who cares, why would anyone be interested in me, besides, everyone does it."

They use supermarket loyalty cards to save $0.25 on a gallon of milk. They install tracker apps to save money on gas. People don't care.