MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by afavour | 2025-09-27 22:37:33+00:00
> With a gas car, between age and mileage you know a lot about that car. In the EV, people have no clue,” said Helveston. Battery health, he explained, is more linked to how the car was used than its age or mileage

Does the same not apply to gas cars? In a different way obviously but the way any car has been driven in its lifetime affects its long term viability and you don’t have a great insight into it at purchase time.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-27 22:38:39+00:00
Apparently even earlier than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_ground_vehicle#Histor...

That's 1915, if we're going for remote control bombs.

EDIT:

Even earlier still - apparently, a radio-controlled torpedo was patented in 1897!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_control#History
by MisterTea | 2025-09-27 22:38:52+00:00
> I always wondered if we could replicate the physicality of vinyl / CDs, games ROM etc. through memory cards

I kinda like the idea that the music is stored as a raw analog signal pressed or magnetically stirred onto physical media. There's no file format, no codec , no DRM and no CPU involved. It's more of a protest against the digital assault that turned a ritualistic listening experience into a effortless, passive background task.

There's also a big nostalgia factor where a lot of people like me grew up with vinyl, cassettes and CD's when they came out. High school years were rife with tape trading, DiY mixes and kids who made their own music. In HS I knew kids handing out tapes with their fresh new rap or garage grunge band. You won't get that magic back with an SD card in a cardboard facade (or spotify for that matter.)
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 22:39:13+00:00
I think it largely comes down to the App Store limitation at this point (the UI is... livable enough now, though it does still seem a waste to not just have the macOS UI in keyboard-attached mode). Consumers can't take things like their Steam library over and workers can't just run existing enterprise apps - it has to be Apple approved apps which fit the Apple architectural requirements and are purchased/distributed through the Apple Store.

For a small subset that is absolutely also stuff like terminal and Docker, but there's nothing special about that group beyond "they use a different set of apps not allowed in the App Store".
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-27 22:39:36+00:00
Honestly I've been loving systemd-nspawn using mkosi to build containers, distroless ones too at that where sensible. Works a treat for building vms too.

Scales wonderfully, fine grained permissions and configuration are exactly how you'd hope coming from systemd services. I appreciate it leverages various linux-isms like btrfs snapshots for faster read only or ephemeral containers.

People still by large have this weird assumption that you can only do OS containers with nspawn, never too sure where that idea came from.
by mlsu | 2025-09-27 22:39:51+00:00
I have a used (& paid off) Hyundai EV. It’s essentially the same form factor as a Prius. I cannot bring myself to part with it because it is such a smoking good deal. It’s low maintenance, it’s cheap to charge (on off peak), it’s efficient to drive, it can carry anything (9’6 surfboards? kayaks? A Bookcase? No problem).

I calculated it out and if I got a reasonable gas car it would be roughly 3 times more expensive per month to drive. It’s cheaper even than biking and taking the train to work (to be fair the train is expensive where I live).

I think this car will easily last another 150k miles with nothing more than tires and basic maintenance.

That said, I do miss an old stick shift gas car. EVs don’t give a feeling of life.
by Projectiboga | 2025-09-27 22:39:55+00:00
The key is shifting focus from super close to a couple of hundred yards (meters) and back a number of times more days than not. My wife and I are part of a multigenerational cohort who all wear glasses. I read a paper in ~2013-14 about how kids in Australia to Singaporian parents get less nearsightedness than a matched gourp back in Singapore. I thought it was light exposure and mentioned it to another school parent in NYC. He heard it was switching focus from near to far. So I started to guide my kid to look at cornices (roof edge decorations) or way down the street as we are walking, then to shift focus back to real close in some repition. And he got in the habit of doing it enough, and he is still glasses free at almost age 17 and the Eye Dr predicts he is clear until middle age now. So parents if you have kids teach them this skill and guide them until they get the habit !!
by tylerchilds | 2025-09-27 22:40:34+00:00
The government has already failed, objectively.

As someone that stepped outside of the church a decade ago, they’ll be the ones to decide if they are the religion to harbor sexual abuse or if they’ll also just STAND UP— For their own daughters.

At a certain point, they’ll have to admit Peter Thiel’s “political theology” was never “theology” and was only ever “politics”

Tbh, there’s a really easy mantra people outside the church can chant and that is

“Known by fruit, known by fruit!”

And if there’s any hope at all, it seems people do see “the rot” they’re just afraid to say it.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-27 22:46:18+00:00
The M1 Air at Wal-Mart has gone on sale for as low as $599 already. The M4 Air goes on sale for $799 pretty regularly.

I would expect to see them use the same sort of game plan for an A series MacBook that they used with the iPhone SE.

Use previous gen parts for items like the screen and body (for cost savings) along with current gen SOCs.
by palata | 2025-09-27 22:46:38+00:00
I don't see this as a valid argument. You can't say "I can find a situation where ChatControl does not help, therefore ChatControl is always useless".

On the contrary, it is an argument in favour of extending ChatControl to using machine learning for detecting such cases.

The problem, again, is that we don't want to have an opaque system that can be extended to surveilling new things, because it's very difficult to audit and make sure it is not abused.
by parineum | 2025-09-27 22:48:10+00:00
> Also, Trumpism isn't going to end with Trump.

We'll see about that. The prominent members of his like are all doing their best impressions of him and it's they're not very convincing. Their sycophancy is the best indicator that they lack the spine to do the audacious things he does.

Someone with a completely different demeanor yet still standing above the crowd is what will likely succeed Trump and, as of now, I don't see it.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-27 22:48:23+00:00
Most “enterprise apps” these days are web based SaaS apps.

The PC games market is really not that large in the grand scheme of things and what serious game player would want to play games on laptop class hardware? Even with the iPad Pro you are talking about MacBook Air level hardware with worse thermals for games.

And the most popular office Apps - Microsoft Office and GSuite are a per seat license - for both home and office. Meaning you can use the apps on your phone, laptop, or mobile devices and sync apps between them.

How many productivity apps don’t “fit in Apple’s guideline”?
by k310 | 2025-09-27 22:48:46+00:00
They serve a purpose, for all those dollars!!

They did research when I served, a mere 50 years ago! These days, as part of DHS, not DOT, I can imagine that research is a dirty word compared to "projecting national interests" and the Commandant was summarily dismissed for predictable reasons. So I can't say what research, if any, is conducted these days. One can ask.

A recent comparison of CG and NSF breakers, the latter of which is now zero, is in this congressional report. Physical page 45.

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/RL/PDF/RL3439...
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-27 22:49:00+00:00
The Amazon rain forest creates its own local wet climate, and when that cycle is broken the place will be far drier than many would expect.

Mismanagement is ultimately a self-correcting problem, as local extinction events are also natural. If I recall the rain-forest floor organic layer is rather thin when compared to other ecosystems.

However, China economic interests in South America agriculture and resources is a complex issue. All world donations sent to help preserve the forest was negligible by comparison. =3
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-09-27 22:50:16+00:00
> we regularly depended on atime for identifying which files are actively being used in myriad situations

You can do that with bpf tooling now, for example the `opensnoop` BCC program can capture all file opens on demand. You can also write tools which capture all POSIX IOs to specific files/directories. I can see atime sometimes being useful in some super niche use cases such as hisenbugs you cannot reproduce reliably, but I would be reaching for BPF tools first.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 22:50:54+00:00
That's pretty much Microsoft's approach on every system now - even if you install Outlook or Teams, it's just a web app. If it weren't for that I wonder if keyboards on iPads would even still be common at all. That said, there is a heck of a lot more to enterprise apps than things like email still out there. When I was still at a health system we'd try to use tablets for new things whenever possible (they are just physically convenient in many work environments) but we'd inevitably end up with "web stuff" on the tablet and "everything else" on a laptop (sometimes with mobile cart) for this exact reason.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-27 22:52:52+00:00
> That said, I think you're underestimating the machines on physicality. Artifical muscle substitutes have beaten humans on raw power since soon after the steam engine, and on fine control whenever precision engineering passed below the thickness of a human hair.

Right. Still, same can be said about flying machines and birds; our technology outclasses them on any individual factor you can think of, but we still can't beat them on all relevant factors at the same time. We can't build a general-purpose bird-equivalent just yet.

Maybe it's not a fundamental hardship, and merely economics of the medium - it's much easier and cheaper to iterate on software than on hardware. But then, maybe this is fundamental - physical world is hard and expensive; computation is cheap and easy. Thinking happens in computational space.

My point wasn't about whether or not robots can be eventually made to be better than us in both physical and mental aspects - rather, it's that near-term, we'll be dealing with machines that beat us on all cognitive tasks simultaneously, but are not anywhere close to us in dealing with physical world in general. Now, if those compete with us for jobs or place in society, we get to the situation I was describing.
by tesserato | 2025-09-27 22:53:31+00:00
CloudMapper is a command-line utility designed to help you understand and Analyse your cloud storage. It uses rclone to interface with various cloud storage providers, gathers information about your files and their structure, and then generates several insightful reports, including:

A detailed text tree view of your files and folders (for Single/Remotes modes) or a mirrored local directory structure with placeholders for the actual files (for Folders mode). A report on duplicate files (based on hashes). A summary of file extensions and their storage consumption. A size usage report per remote and overall. A report listing the N largest files found across all remotes. An interactive HTML treemap visualization of your storage. Simple installation (cargo install cloudmapper)
by grumple | 2025-09-27 22:53:59+00:00
This played out much like many coffee shops that I’ve seen in my city and others [0]. Basically some leftist with a little money and little to no business acumen opens a low margin business and hires far-left employees. Those employees, dissatisfied with their low wages - they are, after all, baristas at coffee shops that are barely profitable, if at all - form a union. When the owner tells them they can’t pay more and offer benefits because they are literally losing money, the employees then take to social media, destroying what little customer base the business had. The business closes, and the employees are now unemployed, having destroyed their own livelihood and a place they actually liked working, because they had this absurd idea that their queer/trans owner that was scraping by was some maniacal oligarch that deserved to be crushed by the workers.

The real lesson is that if you’re opening a small coffee shop or bookshop or similar small business, you have to work full time and not hire people unless absolutely necessary. And if you do hire others, avoid the communists.

0. https://www.34st.com/article/2022/08/minas-world-lgbtq-coffe...
by didericis | 2025-09-27 22:54:31+00:00
I'm probably ignorant to specific issues that make more advanced typesetting for journal submissions necessary, but I don't understand why some academic flavor of markdown isn't the standard. I'd advocate for that before either LaTeX or Typst.

I absolutely get the importance of typesetting for people who publish physical books/magazines/etc, but when it comes to research I don't see the value of typsetting anything. Journals or print publishers should be responsible for typsetting submissions to fit their style/paper size/etc, and researchers should just be responsible for delivering their research in a format that's simpler and more content focused.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-09-27 22:54:57+00:00
Maybe not a railroad but I imagine the data centers won't be worth nothing...

I imagine the AI bubble bust will be like the .com bubble bust. Of the 20 (or whatever number) of companies that have a shot, something like 3 will survive and do well. The problem is we don't know which 3.

Many, many, dot-com era companies died during the .com bubble and tons of money was lost, but not everything. For example: Amazon.com, eBay.com, Intuit, etc.
by bluenose69 | 2025-09-27 22:55:09+00:00
I've never seen a publisher's template that was hard to work with.

The process of writing in latex for journals (and textbooks -- I've written for both things) is really very easy. Publishers almost always provide a sample .tex file that has items you just fill in. For example, there will be something like `\authorNames{}` and you just put the names between the braces. The same goes for titles, equations, figures, etc. There will be sample paragraphs as well. And they will have examples of various citations styles, too.

Speaking of citations, latex has good support for citation databases. (Typst and markdown also provide this support.)

I'd say most people I know write their early drafts in latex. They have a target journal in mind from the start of the writing process, so they just grab the latest sample file and stylesheet(s) from the publisher's website and start entering text.

As you say, using latex for freeform documents is a different matter. That's where I've started to use typst. And I do recommend it for such things. You may find yourself wanting to make some typst templates for common tasks (meeting notes, position papers, etc.) but it's not terrible hard to make such templates. I've made a few, but often I don't bother -- I just put a few lines of customization at the start, if I want to alter how section headings look, or I want a different font from the default one.
by Avamander | 2025-09-27 22:55:14+00:00
> Cloudflare has become a highly attractive target for state-sponsored attacks, suffering from recurring breaches. Their sheer scale, considering that they are serving a substantial portion of the internet, means that an outage or compromise could have widespread, costly consequences.

I'm unsure how much of these can actually be called "attacks" rather than "complying with local laws" that lets them operate in a lot of countries. Including hostile ones.

They really don't segment customer data sufficiently to mittigate this either. CloudFlare even officially says that they don't actually enforce even Regional Services and you have to do that yourself as a customer. Rest of customers get even fewer guarantees than that.

Have fun, three-letter agencies.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/data-localization/limitati...

> Regional Services operates on your hostname's IPs. We recommend using DNSSEC and/or DNS over HTTPS to ensure that DNS responses are secure and correct.

This of course is funny considering how CloudFlare has used the same DNSSEC key signing key for ⪆10 years. It also doesn't mention BGP hijacks or similar MITM attacks, because there's also not much anyone besides CloudFlare can do against that.
by olliem36 | 2025-09-27 22:55:27+00:00
We've built a multi-agent system, designed to run complex tasks and workflows with just a single prompt. Prompts are written by non-technical people, can be 10+ pages long...

We've invested heavily in observability having quickly found that observability + evals are the cornerstone to a successful agent.

For example, a few things measure:

1. Task complexity (assessed by another LLM) 2. Success metrics given the task(s) (Agin by other LLMS) 3. Speed of agent runs & tools 4. Errors of tools, inc time outs. 5. How much summarizaiton and chunking occurs between agents and tool results 6. tokens used, cost 7. reasoning, model selected by our dynamic routing..

Thank god its been relatively cheap to build this in house.. our metrics dashboard is essentially a vibe coded react admin site.. but proves absolutely invaluable!

All of this happed after a heavy investment in agent orchestration, context management... it's been quite a ride!
by williadc | 2025-09-27 22:56:10+00:00
I use atime to identify archives that can be retired. It's common for circuit designer to release a lot of large files for their peers to analyze or incorporate into a parent/grandparent simulation. They will use that data for as long as it is still relevant, which means different things for different types of data, and the only consistent thing we've found is that if the data hasn't been accessed in awhile, then we can retire it.
by kwillets | 2025-09-27 22:56:19+00:00
I built the ads audience system. Most of the effects of that are already known here; Ads became a big trophy within the org; everybody had to have ads and post-sale revenue, even the fridge people.

Sometime around when the CEO got out of prison a bunch of weirdness occurred. Good managers left, bad managers got hired, and everything became top-down. The group head "retired" but last year un-retired in a different position; I didn't know you could do that.

Engineering-wise it went from technical free rein to "only use this suspiciously chummy cloud vendor" in a few months. I never got to the bottom of that deal, but costs exploded, and revenue flattened.
by pimlottc | 2025-09-27 22:57:42+00:00
It seems that this business was incorporated as a community interest company (CIC) [0]. The Wikipedia article for CIC [1] talks about more the concept of "asset lock":

> The articles of a CIC must also provide that its assets cannot be used except for the benefit of the community. This is known as the asset lock.

It sounds like this is why the employees believed they had a right to the books. But it seems hard to say without knowing what the specific articles for this company.

Of course, I know little of UK law, perhaps someone who is more familiar can chime in?

0: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_interest_company
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 22:58:48+00:00
You should talk to this person for me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399380 since they argue these chips are already ideal for high intensity video games. It doesn't have to be AAA titles though, many games (simple and advance) make it to the "top paid apps" section of the app store once they "make the leap across" so to say. The thing is, not every game/app has made the leap, and when they do they don't all transfer ownership.

I don't mean office apps, I mean enterprise apps. I do see them becoming more web focused with time (which I think is a good thing - it's ultra portable when they are) but we're certainly not ready to claim victory just because most email and document editing can be done from a webview. Hell, there's one app I have to use daily which is still officially only 32 bit Windows (it, thankfully, works in Crossover).
by schiffern | 2025-09-27 22:59:12+00:00
More: https://news.ubc.ca/2025/09/ubc-launches-worlds-first-mushro...

I predict this will need a method of preventing houseflies from laying eggs on the material, which will happen within hours. This is the main reason why portable toilets use the blue liquid. Having housefly maggots crawling out of the device will end any real-world experimental trial rather quickly.

Typical fly lifecycle: https://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th6a.htm

At a minimum, I would recommend using a fine (noseeum) mesh screen along any air vent or intake paths, and using a tightly-sealed and gasketed toilet seat.

Signage should indicate that the lid must be closed after use, maybe even with a sensor. Having a soft-close seat and lid will likely increase compliance and improve the user experience.

Flies go faster than even rapid airflow, so airflow alone won't keep them out. Odor mitigation will reduce flies, but not entirely eliminate them. And even "waterless flush" systems can have residue where flies will lay eggs.

I would consider incorporating agricultural fly-paper rolls mounted inside the commode compartment itself, to quickly catch any flies that get past the toilet seat lid, before they can lay eggs. For another layer of protection (and again better experience) you probably want traps inside the toilet stall as well.

The agricultural flypaper (CatchMaster XL or similar) usually comes on a 30cm x 100m roll, and it's by far the cheapest and most effective option. Avoid funnel traps, which attract flies but have poor catching efficiency.

This needn't be complex or expensive. Trap designs can be very simple, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHJJOdOzK8 The material comes on a roll, so it can also be automated.

Wonderful effort and initiative by the entire team, thanks for sharing! Just trying to maybe "head off at the pass" foreseeable challenges that might crop up. I look forward to following this project with great interest.
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-27 22:59:58+00:00
Chess is a great game but it is rare to play for money because you have a very accurate rating system and no luck, so you know to a high degree of certainty who is going to win before the game starts unless the players are very close in rank. You can’t fool yourself easily.

With games of skill that also have a strong luck element (poker, fantasy sports, betting horses, etc.) you can fool yourself very easily into thinking the odds are in your favor when they are not. If you won you thought it was because you played better, if you lost you got unlucky, and if you don’t track it (even many professional players don’t) you may have a hard time even knowing after a long sample size where you stood.

Gambling relies on the ability of anyone to get lucky and win on any given day mechanisms rely on inconsistent rewards.
by dbaman | 2025-09-27 23:00:35+00:00
Admittedly I don't have a tremendous amount of varied experience with AI-assisted coding, but I have used VSCode copilot quite a bit with Python and it has worked quite well for me. I am sometimes very surprised how well it figures out my intent.

I'm next planning on looking at Cursor and Claude Code, so the GH Copilot CLI preview caught my attention.

What exactly do you dislike about VSCode copilot compared to the competition?