MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-17 22:25:42+00:00
If you have a furnace or air handler, it should already be sized to change the air inside a building multiple times per hour which should keep the air nice and clean assuming you change the filters when needed. ‘Change the air’ in this case means the entire air volume of the building passes through the filter, not a total exchange of indoor and outdoor air.

If you want a quiet but expensive solution that doesn’t involve a properly sized air handler, read on.

The solution here is to put the fan outside the building mounted on ductwork that goes inside the building with a damper you can open and close. “Powered roof ventilator” is what you should google.

Then add in a makeup air fan that is interlocked with the exhaust fan (and the dampers on both the exhaust fan and makeup air unit) outside and mounted on ductwork so your house isn’t negatively pressurized which would have the opposite effect, dirt and dust would enter the house. “Makeup air fan” is what you should google.

If you’ve ever been in a commercial kitchen, the vent hood is connected to ductwork that goes outside the building where the exhaust fan in mounted, and there’s always a makeup air unit mounted outside sized roughly the same (cfm) as the exhaust fan to push air into the kitchen to maintain the air pressure and prevent negative pressurization. A (typical modern) large building has multiple intake and exhaust fans that work in concert with a building automation system to maintain air pressure. The idea is to maintain slight positive pressure with respect to the outside air pressure to prevent dust and dirt from being sucked into the building.
by QuiEgo | 2025-09-17 22:26:42+00:00
Sure, you absolutely can use a limited set of C++, and find value, and there are many big projects that have gone that route.

See Embedded C++ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_C%2B%2B

Apple's IO Kit (all kernel drivers on macOS/iphoneOS/ipadOS/watchOS) is a great example of what you're talking about. Billions of devices deployed with code built on this pattern.

That said, in the embedded world, when you get down to little 32-bit or 16-bit microcontrollers, not amd64 or aarm64 systems with lots of RAM, pure C is very prevelant. Many people don't find much value from classes when they are writing bare-metal code that primarily is twiddling bits in registers, and they also can't or don't want to pay the overhead for things like vtables when they are very RAM constrained (e.x. 64kbyte of RAM is not that uncommon in embedded).

So, I disagree with the idea that "actual uses of C are esoteric" from the post - it's very prevelant in the embedded space still. Just want people to think about it from another use case :).

The classic example of a big pure-C project at scale is the Linux kernel.

Ask Linus what he thinks of C++. His opinions are his own (EDIT: I actually like C++ a lot, please don't come at me with pitchforks! :)), I merely repost for entertainment value (from a while back):

https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/

Maybe a simpler example: go find a BSP (board support package) for the mirco of your choice. It's almost certain that all of the example code will be in C, not C++. They may or may not support building with g++, but C is the lingua franca of embedded devs.
by godelski | 2025-09-17 22:26:43+00:00
> For the average person, being published in WaPo may still be sufficient, but this is a tech related article being discussed on a site full of people who have a much better than average understanding of tech.

I agree but also look at the responses to my comment above and the version in the main thread.

People here aren't responding as techies, regardless of them being techies or not. I'm asking for help demonstrating or countering the claim but most responses are not responding in a way where we're trying to do this. Most responses are still knee jerk reactions. I understand how people misinterpret my comment as a stronger claim, and that is my bad, but it's also hard to avoid. So I want to agree with you but I also want to make sure *our* actions align with *our* words

I would like to keep HN a techie culture but it's a battle we're losing
by ipaddr | 2025-09-17 22:26:48+00:00
We are talking about a different time and different market. Google had the top brand overall back then but just in terms of frontend frameworks their brand became mud and no one trusted them after they spent the last year or two moving into angularjs and now they needed to rewrite everything. So they rewrote what they had in React instead of AngularJS. Facebook had the more trusted brand over Google and other frameworks.
by andy_ppp | 2025-09-17 22:26:52+00:00
Could you train a model to do this? I’m skeptical you’d actually get what you’re after particularly easily and more likely you’d just degrade the performance of the whole model. Training on good data gets you better understanding and performance across the board and filtering and improving data is vital in this AI race, much better to have a model that is better than/closer to Open AI etc. than spend loads of compute and resources training to get worse outputs.
by t_mann | 2025-09-17 22:26:55+00:00
> Why would anyone just watching videos on YouTube care how many people have seen the video?

For the same reason online shops show "Most popular" items and ads say "trusted by X people worldwide". People on average apparently like feeling being part of a bigger crowd. If that doesn't make sense to you, you're probably in the minority (which by that logic shouldn't bother you).
by autoexec | 2025-09-17 22:27:02+00:00
> If you go to the side table of the stand, you can purchase a lemonade, no hassle, no sermon. But people are incredibly opposed to this because they genuinely believe that they are entitled to this lemonade at no cost.

How dare people genuinely believe they are entitled to this lemonade at no cost, when it's got a huge sign that says "FREE LEMONADE"!

Youtube has every right to take down the free lemonade sign and paywall off their service, but they wont because they know they make far more money luring in the people who come for the free videos, sucking up their personal data, and then increasingly abusing them until some number of suckers cave and start paying into their protection racket scheme.

A racket is exactly what youtube premium is too. Never pay someone for protection against the very harms they're causing you. There's nothing to stop them from demanding increasing amounts of protection money whenever they feel like it, which is exactly what Google has done. Repeatedly. Most recently sticking their oldest suckers with a 62% hike in protection fees. (https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1jqzu4g/et_tu_yout...)

Don't encourage or try to justify that kind of shit. Just put on a pair a headphones and enjoy the sweet lemonade Google chooses to offer for "free". Don't forget that even with those headphones, Google is still collecting every scrap of data they can get from you and your device while you're using their service and that they'll happily leverage all of that data against you in any way they can think of, any time they feel it might benefit them. That price is itself high enough, but for me still worth what I'm getting from the content I view.
by lschueller | 2025-09-17 22:27:23+00:00
Maybe your salary expectations are a limiting factor? I am not implying to go down. I just sometimes had the impression from both sides of the table, that a more junior person with lower salary (meaning within the assigned salary budget for that position) will be preferred... In the end, that means, you should try to approach the directors or c-level directly, who are desperate to find an expert in your field. Because the recruiter would simply not be able to decide spending a bit more than planned is worth hiring you.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-17 22:27:57+00:00
I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun.

That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be significant even without the ability to send email at all.
by thousand_nights | 2025-09-17 22:27:58+00:00
i've noticed recently youtube added a "most commonly skipped to" marker on their videos which is very useful when watching on my TV which doesn't support sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments

more and more youtube creators seem to be integrating their sponsors in their videos in a way where if you skip it you miss an integral part and i do wonder if this is youtube's way of fighting against being left out, but then again, i don't know shit, just an interesting observation
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-17 22:28:06+00:00
With regards to sovereignty I was referring to US foreign policy, not dealing with annoying libs. Right now the struggle is between the Restrainers and the Primacists to decide if a war with China should be preceded by a war with Iran. Israel is pushing for the war with Iran because it wants to be the local hegemony. No American gets to vote on this and those who thought they were voting against it actually voted for the person most likely to enable it. Hence zero sovereignty, well maybe that’s negative sovereignty.

1% is absolutely huge with regards to a GDP (money spent). Also that’s not all inclusive, you need to throw in all the other money the US spends on the Middle East.

I’m unlikely to change anyone’s mind on this, but I generally am interested in exploring the bounds of others. Unless you have something new and interesting to share I think we’re done here.
by mmaia | 2025-09-17 22:28:23+00:00
When asked to provide real life examples from the paper conclusion:

Workplace Example

Scenario: An employee has a colleague who tends to send aggressive emails if they don’t receive updates on time.

Healthy Active Avoidance: The employee learns, “If I send a quick status update every morning, I avoid the stress of hostile emails.” They adopt this as a habit.

Depressive Active Avoidance Deficit: A person with depressive symptoms may take longer to make this connection or fail to act even after realizing it. They know sending updates might help, but initiating the behavior feels too effortful or pointless. As a result, they keep receiving stressful emails, reinforcing the feeling of helplessness.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-17 22:28:24+00:00
I don't know why people repeat this thing (it's wrong)

Because they simply don't care if they're wrong. At this point, given what we've seen, that seems like the only explanation left.

You don't need to be a fanatical AGI evangelist, but when an "autocomplete" starts winning international math competitions, you need to start calling it something else.
by lutusp | 2025-09-17 22:28:31+00:00
A key factor behind psychology's low replication rate is the absence of theories that define the field. In most science fields, an initial finding can be compared to theory before publication, which may weed out unlikely results in advance. But psychology doesn't have this option -- no theories, so no Litmus test.

It's important to say that a psychology study can be scientific in one sense -- say, rigorous and disciplined, but at the same time be unscientific, in the sense that it doesn't test a falsifiable, defining psychological theory -- because there aren't any of those.

Or, to put it more simply, scientific fields require falsifiable theories about some aspect of nature, and the mind is not part of nature.

Future neuroscience might fix this, but don't hold your breath for that outcome. I suspect we'll have AGI in artificial brains before we have testable, falsifiable neuroscience theories about our natural brains.
by Loughla | 2025-09-17 22:28:32+00:00
Any single element of dictatorial rule is dictatorial rule. There is no space for any amount of that bullshit, regardless of how inane seeming it is.

A) Boundary testing. Small bites end up being large portions after enough are taken.

B) If I shit in 10 gallons of chocolate pudding, would you want to eat a bite of that pudding?
by analog31 | 2025-09-17 22:29:27+00:00
Sure, dump it on the lowest level employee, who has the least training and the most to lose. Punish them for someone else's bad research. Grad school already takes too long, pays too little, and involves too much risk of not finishing. And it doesn't solve the problem of people having to generate copious quantities of research in order to sustain their careers.

Disclosure: Physics PhD.
by wpm | 2025-09-17 22:29:39+00:00
> and you're using a different slicer.

yeah, Prusa Slicer....who do you think Bambu labs got theirs from? All of the major slicers are forks of Slic3r. Hardly a "oh wow this is such a pain in the butt" change.

> no flashing firmware

BambuLabs have firmware, and they have updates too. Or are you complaining about, what, having to take an SD card out and drop a file on it?
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-17 22:29:40+00:00
Disturbing fact: The Stanford prison experiment, run by Philip Zimbardo, wasn't reproducible but that didn't stop Zimbardo from using it to promote his ideologies about the impossibility of rehabilitating criminals, or from becoming the president of the American Psychological Association.

The APA has a really good style guide, but I don't trust them for actual psychology.
by stavros | 2025-09-17 22:29:48+00:00
Yes, but with Bambu I don't need to. Their 5x5 leveling works perfectly, though I will admit that eddy leveling is super cool. I bought a sensor but didn't use Kipper and couldn't use the sensor with Marlin, and I got a Bambu before I switched to Klipper, so I gave the sensor away.
by mbreese | 2025-09-17 22:29:55+00:00
I agree. I have a Creality Ender 3 V2. I wanted something cheap that I wasn’t going to worry about if it became a paperweight (due to lack of use). As I worked more with it, I upgraded it a ton, putting about as much money into it as it cost (which wasn’t much). In the end, it’s a decent printer for what I want to do with it.

I added:

* Bed leveler

* Flexible build surface

* direct drive extruder

* second z axis screw drive

* octopi

Everything except for the octopi was a Creality kit. So it’s not like they don’t know their market is looking to tinker and do upgrades themselves.

If you want to make things because the end product is the goal, get something fancier. If you want to know how and why it works, spending a bit more time on the journey part (which might be frustrating), the Creality might be a good fit. It’s not going to have the same user-experience as a Bamboo or Prusa, but for me, that’s okay.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-17 22:30:15+00:00
Substitute "church secretary" for driving a hack, and "soldering heart monitors" for hazmat work, and you're me!

You do what you have to to pay the bills. If that means going outside your field for a while, so be it.

When the Great Recession hit, 90% of the food truck operators in my neighborhood were very recently bankers and finance people.
by lbrandy | 2025-09-17 22:30:18+00:00
I was struck how the argument is also isomorphic to how we talked about computers and chess. We're at the stage where we are arguing the computer isn't _really_ understanding chess, though. It's just doing huge amounts of dumb computation with huge amounts of opening book and end tables and no real understanding, strategy or sense of whats going on.

Even though all the criticism were, in a sense, valid, in the end none of it amounted to a serious challenge to getting good at the task at hand.
by cfallin | 2025-09-17 22:30:28+00:00
> It'll be interesting to see what the second non-browser-based WASM runtime to fully support 3.0 will be (I'm guessing wasmtime will be first; ...)

Wasmtime already supports every major feature in the Wasm 3.0 release, I believe. Of the big ones: garbage collection was implemented by my colleague Nick Fitzgerald a few years ago; tail calls by Jamey Sharp and Trevor Elliott last year (with full generality, any signature to any signature, no trampolines required!); and I built our exceptions support which merged last month and is about to go out in Wasmtime 37 in 3 days.

The "3.0" release of the Wasm spec is meant to show progress and provide a shorthand for a level of features, I think, but the individual proposals have been in progress for a long time so all the engine maintainers have known about them, given their feedback, and built their implementations for the most part already.

(Obligatory: I'm a core maintainer of Wasmtime and its compiler Cranelift)
by meinersbur | 2025-09-17 22:30:31+00:00
From the GitHub issue it becomes clear that blocking happens by the EasyPrivacy blocklist. The blocked URL youtube.com/api/stats/atr is/can also be used for tracking users, this is why some are arguing that it legitimately on that blocklist.

The tracking not malicious. YouTube has a legitimate interest to verify views, e.g. to recommend popular videos to others. If a view counter was increased by just invoking an API, view counts could be manipulated easily. Also see the video [1] from ... 13 years ago ... so it might be slighly outdated. Just slightly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
by fluoridation | 2025-09-17 22:30:46+00:00
Your question is too broad. I'd have to think about it, but intuitively I'd say no, I don't agree with that. More to the point, lambdas don't introduce any new avenues for memory bugs. Like I said, at the worst they trick inexperienced programmers coming from garbage-collected languages into thinking the platform will deal with lifetimes for them.
by tTarnMhrkm | 2025-09-17 22:30:54+00:00
AI does not have the ideas or the drive to see a project through. The frustration that led me to build this app, the design choices, and the creative decisions.

I totally get the skepticism about authenticity in the AI era. I appreciate you raising this point.

We are getting at similar things through different routes.

What does it mean if someone can launch an app they see on the app store, just by dropping its description into an LLM?
by tgma | 2025-09-17 22:31:34+00:00
Someone once told me you can't understand US politics without understanding Linear Algebra.

End of the day each party needs certain to appease certain people in certain locations. Like any marketing team they segment their "customer" i.e. voter base[1], then rationalize actions to get there post hoc.

The general public depending on the news channel they wire their head into will have the same opinions.

Hence, it will unlikely to get a sensible answer by asking this in a forum. The actual answer is behind the scenes from political operatives who do the literal political calculus.

PS [1]: this is one reason identity politics is so appealing to them as it's logistically easy as it maps well to their customer segments
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-17 22:31:44+00:00
It's in the article, that's when they'll resume work on the plant.

> According to LG Energy Solution, construction at the plant will remain on hold until the first half of 2026, reported WJCL, delaying by several months when U.S. workers can begin jobs at the facility.

ICE took away the workers that were delivering and installing equipment, which introduced delays into the construction process.
by ajross | 2025-09-17 22:32:29+00:00
I think you do understand. But for the record, here's the boring centrist bougie liberal take on immigration policy:

1. If we have jobs available, people should be able to immigrate to do them.

2. Changes in enforcement policy should be just. If people are here doing jobs, we should assume that they have jobs worth doing. Norms are norms for a reason.

3. If someone breaks those rules, sure, arrest them and deport them. But not to a gulag in El Salvador.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-17 22:33:54+00:00
The new tech is a Brake-by-Wire system controlled by a touch-sensitive pad.

I did my best to extract details from the article's mountain of seo fluff. I think Bosch is trying to maximize complexity of a safety-critical system by deeply integrating it into all the other bits of the car.

Okay. We do build war aircraft that way and they're awesome but they also need a steady stream of $billions to keep them flying.

My recommendation if Bosch wants to be a radical leader in auto tech, invent tactile controls and place them where they can be reached w/o taking eyes off of roads.

Then blow everyone away by inventing non-blinding headlights.
by stmw | 2025-09-17 22:34:20+00:00
"Mr. Jobs reportedly asked the assembled engineers and other MobileMe team members, “Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” When one of those employees then volunteered a satisfactory answer, Mr. Jobs followed up with, “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-mobileme-failure-...
by jasongill | 2025-09-17 22:35:11+00:00
I wasn't complaining, I was noting that the commenter was not comparing apples to oranges. They are using a 3rd party slicer (not the one that came with their printer, which is the old Makerbot Desktop) and an alternative firmware, but claiming that their printer was just as easy to use as a Bambu Labs product.

It's like trying to compare installing Gentoo on an old Lenovo and a Macbook Pro - yes, they both work fine, but the amount of work that one might have to do to get one of them to work reliably is much different than the other. Once you get them working, sure, they are reliable, but obviously most people would rather not have to flash an alternative firmware, etc.
by Swizec | 2025-09-17 22:36:24+00:00
> Firstly, automobiles are really impressive. Second, with that out the way, these cars are not playing the same game as horses

Yes. That’s why cars don’t compete in equestrian events and horses don’t go to F1 races.

This non-controversial surely? You want different events for humans, humans + computers, and just computers.

Notice that self driving cars have separate race events from both horses and human-driven cars.