MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dyauspitr | 2025-09-27 21:41:58+00:00
They are. I’ve had my F150 lightning for about two years. On my old gas F-150 I used to pay about $150 a month in gas. On this one I pay about $18 on my monthly electric bill. I do live in a place with off peak electric prices of $0.07/KWh.

That’s not even talking about how silent they are, the amazing acceleration that makes driving a joy, you can leave them idling when you’re waiting with no toxic emissions/guilt, no oil changes and because of the regen braking the brake pads have to be changed very infrequently.
by tavavex | 2025-09-27 21:41:59+00:00
Does income or number of apps matter for anything here? Like, if given the choice, would you rather only play games from App Store or only games from Steam?

The point they're making is obvious. iOS was and still is a platform for mobile applications and mobile games. Despite how much processing power is crammed into those devices, you can't use similarly for "serious work". All that power will never be used to run actual games (like games from a PC or a console), or render a 3D model in Blender, or do CAD work, or run "full" versions of any software that has a cut-down mobile variant. Which begs the question - why mimic the power of a full computer while having no way of doing the work that full computers need all that power for?
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-27 21:42:15+00:00
My SMSL SA-50 sounds an order of magnitude (in price) better than my Marantz PM68 and costs an order of magnitude less - in other words, it sounds fantastic and it was cheap. Some of the early carriers of class D hype (Tripath based) were even cheaper. A good chip and a bunch of quality passives don't need to be that expensive.

So I'm more concerned about Samsung owning B&W (there is no real substitute for good speakers) than Marantz and Denon. It seems like really good amps can be made by sticking to class D chip application notes these days.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-27 21:42:23+00:00
> So Apple et all are making a reasonable choice.

Interesting how people rationalize this stuff. My phone can dock to a screen; I've never used the feature, but it doesn't obstruct anything I do. It's a nice-to-have, and it would be kinda appealing if Firefox and Spotify both work like normal. I might even deign to say I could get work done on it (though I've never tried).

Presumably the real reason is that Apple is still afraid to segment their market. A plug-in iPhone would stop people from buying the AppleTV or Mac Mini for home theater applications.
by schoen | 2025-09-27 21:42:42+00:00
Yes, we know the U.S. has done this since 2004 (and so have several other countries, especially in Asia). There's nowhere that I know of that has an organized lobby for foreigners' rights. If there were, I would join it.

(I mean, Ed Hasbrouck has been campaigning against travel surveillance and heightened use of ID for many years, so we have, like, one person!)

One problem is that when governments get together to talk about data and travel, they mostly end up negotiating ways to collect and exchange more data about travelers!
by toast0 | 2025-09-27 21:43:34+00:00
> What I don't get is that even a simple app, e.g. FB Messenger (not the whole of FB) requires an 84MB download. What on earth lurks in that massive download when the actual app could probably fit into a couple kB?

Apks are zip files. If you pull the apk, load it a tool and see what's there. One exciting thing is the typical way to do string localization in Android results in the string resource files being in the zip file uncompressed. If your apk supports a lot of languages, that's a lot of space. FB Messenger shouldn't have a lot of uncompressed strings, they had a way to manage that when I was there (left 2019), and I think??? there is some support from Google to do better things now too. But between that and images for multiple dpis (which does also have some Google support for doing better), there's a lot of room for bloat. If you're getting a non abi specific apk, there's bloat from different binary libraries too.

FB in particular likes to have multiple ways to do the same thing, which sometimes means having libraries to do X from JVM as well as doing X from native code.
by godelski | 2025-09-27 21:43:39+00:00
> I quoted qty=1 prices though

Yet on the unit I linked it is $0.14 per. 2c difference, but hey, that's a full photodiode on Alibaba.

A big part of the assumption that I was making in my original comment is that you're mass producing devices, not treating it as a hobby project. I agree, the constraints are very different in these two settings. A major difference is the cost/ratio of parts to other costs/time. In mass production the price per part is going to approach <$0.01 for standard COTS parts. Same reason Alibaba has them for so cheap (which doesn't include shipping)

> Annoying in your kitchen however is much harder to eyeball a value for (excuse the pun).

Yes, I agree with this. Though In that setting I think you may be able to dual use the LED. Periodically blink it to detect ambient light. You can be pretty rough with this frequency and your accuracy level. But the best solution is always adding some little POT so it can be adjusted. It adds a little cost and design time, but if you're actually selling products that's very likely going to be a inconsequential amount of time and inconsequential cost.

*BUT* it is something the bureaucrats will be able to look at and say that they need to remove it because at scale it will save "a lot of money." But does it? I'm unconvinced. To me it seems to just make the consumers more upset and annoyed. Sure, you might have saved the company $100k because you are producing 10M units, but I'm pretty confident most consumers would rather pay $0.10 to have that part. The bigger problem might be a Lemon Market type of problem where consumers don't actually know/realize they want such a feature at time of purchase but randomly and intermittently realize it over the next week or couple years. It never gets priority thought because there's usually other things to complain about and well then we need to have a larger conversation about if we're doing our jobs as engineers. Are we actually providing value to people with the products we make? Can we take pride in our work? You may be making something dumb, but can you honestly tell yourself "I made the best thing I could"?

The business people need pushback because they don't care about the product, they only care about the profits. That's part of your job as an engineer. Because your job as an engineer isn't to be concerned with the profits, it is to be concerned with the product. Your engineering managers are the bridge, not you the engineer. And a good engineering manager doesn't fully align with the business people either. Because when push comes to shove you have to decide between either: 1) sacrificing the product in favor or profit or 2) sacrificing profits in favor of the product. As an engineer, your job is to have the latter.
by athenot | 2025-09-27 21:44:16+00:00
The setup that I adopted 15 years ago and still use today is the "bar desk". It's a standup desk that's positioned in such a way that my elbows rest naturally when I'm standing.

But instead of a fancy mechanism to make the desk go up and down, I have a saddle stool. When sitting on it, my head is at the same level as standing, and my spine is straight. (Key point is monitor position.)

What I like about that is I can swap between sitting to standing in a few seconds without even thinking about it and without waiting for the desk motor to go up or down. This was originally a poor man's standup desk because I didn't have the budget for a motorized desk; now it's a choice.
by eqvinox | 2025-09-27 21:44:34+00:00
Everything you've said is true for web authentication, and almost nothing of what you said is true for HTTP authentication.

This is HTTP authentication: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_basic.html

https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3/blob/5b4b242db02a5cfb...

https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes/http-auths...

Note the OAuth listed there is OAuth 1.0. Support for "native" HTTP authentication was removed in OAuth 2.0.

This discussion is about using HTTP authentication. I specifically said HTTP authentication in the root post. If you want to do SSH + web authentication, that's a different thread.

Rule of thumb: if you need HTML in any step of it —and that includes as part of generating a token— it's web auth, not HTTP.
by paxys | 2025-09-27 21:44:39+00:00
The vast majority of the market didn't need an iPhone at all until it was introduced. If you enable compelling enough use cases people will find ways for them to fit their workflows, and/or come up with brand new ones.

The biggest hurdle standing in the way is that making a single one of iPhone/iPad/Mac too powerful (in terms of usability, not just raw processing power) will take away sales from the other two.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-09-27 21:44:53+00:00
> does anything actually use this field?

Systemd in a way does. One of the systemd-tmpfiles entry option is to clean up unused files after some time (it ships defaults for /tmp/ after 10 days and /var/tmp/ after 30 days) and for this it checks atime, mtime and ctime to determin if it should delete the file (I think you can also take a flock on the file to prevent it from being deleted as well)
by zumu | 2025-09-27 21:45:05+00:00
I've been on and off thinking about this problem for years. Very excited to see an ecosystem popping up.

But I wonder, why JSON if the web is already built on HTML documents? Is it possible to just store our data in a web of authenticated html documents and have the protocol be built on that? Are there other open standards we can leverage to reduce the amount of new infra / protocols? I wonder if there's a less complex "good enough" mvp version.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-27 21:46:11+00:00
I bought a Kindle Oasis 1st gen when it came out, got it replaced by Amazon with gen 2 and I liked it as long as I could sideload books and strip DRM off of my Kindle "license purchases" but I anticipated the recent moves by Amazon and looked for alternatives, knowing that I'd probably have to love with some compromises, especially in terms of build quality and feel. Looked at Kobo, Onyx, etc but none really convinced me, especially when I saw most of them being stuck on Android 11. When I heard of the Daylight Computer DC-1 something clicked. The smooth display, readability in daylight, none of the cons of rink (except being gray scale), the blue light free display, Android 13 with 16 being on the horizon. Downsides are the uneven display borders, higher battery usage when the display is powered on/no always on display and the rather flimsy feeling of the back cover. DPI is a bit below modern ereaders as well. I'm still happy I went with it. It's now my daily carry for writing in the cafe, scribbling down notes with the included pen and its the best device I ever used to read PDFs and scanned books from archive.org that aren't downloadable.

Lots of cons still but no one is going to pull your ebooks from your device and it's still their 1st gen and only device they have. I just hope they ship export functionality for their custom app so that you can keep local copies of the documents you send to their backend.

It's great this was mentioned in a podcast once which got me curious about it in the first place. And without the blue lights you actually can read in bed without ruining your circadian rhythm.
by majormajor | 2025-09-27 21:46:14+00:00
No? We all wore that too... but unless we're all just weirdos and sunscreen == bug repellant for the whole rest of the world in a way it never has for us (and is not advertised as), it just seemed irrelevant.

The sunscreen kept us from being bright red and in pain for the last 6 days of the trip. The mosquitos gave zero fucks about it.

I would bet that the lucky person whose "body oil and sweat seems to do the job" isn't the representative person here...
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 21:47:50+00:00
My understanding is very challenging for a few reasons. 1. A forest is not just a bunch of trees. It’s most healthy and robust with mature trees and right animal life that supports and propagates them 2. The short term economic incentives towards rehabilitating the forest aren’t there and are actively counter productive for soy and beef farming 3. It might already be past a tipping point as some parts of the forest are dying out and setting on fire through natural causes. The Amazon rainforest is NOT an ecosystem that is used to burning and it cannot recover from it since it destroys the ground cover and soils rainforest plants depend on to grow. Plants that like wet conditions need wet conditions to prosper, dusty charred clay ain’t that
by fentonc | 2025-09-27 21:48:20+00:00
I built a more whimsical version of this - my daughter and I basically built a 'junk robot' from a 1980s movie, told it 'you're an independent and free junk robot living in a yard', and let it go: https://www.chrisfenton.com/meet-grasso-the-yard-robot/

I did this like 18 months ago, so it uses a webcam + multimodal LLM to figure out what it's looking at, it has a motor in its base to let it look back and forth, and it use a python wrapper around another LLM as its 'brain'. It worked pretty well!
by nickysielicki | 2025-09-27 21:48:31+00:00
Doesn’t surprise me at all that people who know what they’re doing are building their own images with nix for ML. Tens of millions of dollars have been wasted in the past 2 years by teams who are too stupid to upgrade from buggy software bundled into their “golden” docker container, or too slow to upgrade their drivers/kernels/toolkits. It’s such a shame. It’s not that hard.

Edit: see also the horrors that exist when you mix nvidia software versions: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-c-compiler-updates-im...
by araes | 2025-09-27 21:48:50+00:00
The archive.org variation appears to be missing both samples and descriptions.

A ported version got made over at: https://ishkur.kenxaj.cyou/

Appears to have all the music files and descriptions from a cursory inspection, although missing Tools, Samples, and Sounds.

Gives credit to Ishkur, recommends checking v3, and was made using: https://github.com/igorbrigadir/ishkurs-guide-dataset/
by godelski | 2025-09-27 21:49:33+00:00
I want you to read what you wrote again...

But you really do seem to be trying hard to miss the point entirely. Life has actually nothing to do with what I said did it. And I can assure you, by nature of being one, that physicists are certain that nature follows simple rules, even if we don't know them.

We are also absolutely confident in that complexity rises out of simplicity. Go look at anything like fractals, chaos theory, perturbation theory, or you should have run into at least bifurcation diagrams in your differential equations course. If you haven't taken diff eq, then well.... perhaps the problem is that your confidence in your result is stronger than your expertise. If not, well... make a real argument because I'm not going to hold your hand through this any longer.
by k310 | 2025-09-27 21:50:33+00:00
NSF is.

The Coast Guard has icebreakers and does research. I knew several buddies who did so, though the MST (Marine Science Technician) rating seems to focus more on security these days.

The "old guard" My, how things change.

A new icebreaker was just added.

https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article/4016098/coast-guard-a...
by dllthomas | 2025-09-27 21:52:21+00:00
> Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to accept campaign donations from foreign governments. How can they claim to put America first if they are beholden to a foreign nation?

My understanding is that that's already the law, and AIPAC claims to be funded by domestic donations. It's obviously possible someone is lying, but then the answer to your "how can they claim" question is straightforward: believing (or pretending to believe) those lies.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-27 21:52:32+00:00
You don't understand what modus operandi means. Hamas and Iran can't function using disproportionate violence; they don't have fighter jets or stealth bombers, there isn't an October 7th every month. Their manner of fighting is dramatically underproportionate and still manages to threaten civilians less than Israel.

It should horrify you when the war on terror has killed more civilians than the terrorists ever did. Netanyahu knows violence won't bring hostages home, and everyone else knows Israel will fulminate until they're sanctioned into the stone age. Hamas and Iran are both winning the pissing contest by doing absolutely nothing.
by tavavex | 2025-09-27 21:54:50+00:00
Or, alternatively, general-purpose robots tend to be human-shaped because the world as it already is has already been fully designed for humans. Single doors are tall because that's the size of a human. Tools are designed to be held in something like a hand, sometimes two of them. Stairs are designed to be walked on, and basically any other traversal method just falls apart.

Of course, there is also the thing where authors and artists tend to draw anything with human intelligence as humans, from robots to aliens. Maybe it's the social reason you mention, or they just unconsciously have assumed humans to be the greatest design to ever exist. But even despite this, in a human world, I expect the first true general-purpose robots to be "standing" upright, with one or several arm-like limbs.
by mckn1ght | 2025-09-27 21:56:45+00:00
> So if you've ever wonder "what is a glacier", let me tell you. Greenland has a lot of ice and it pushes out from the land that is covers into the sea. When that happens, a lot of it breaks off.

This is quite inaccurate and incomplete and the cynicism that follows and pervades the article is offputting.

Let me tell you that glaciers are quite fascinating and come in a variety of constructions and have all sorts of interesting and beautiful features like caves and moulins.

Watching one calve off something the size of a 5 story building into the sea just a couple hundred yards from my camp was a thrilling experience, the last time I went backcountry kayaking. And listening to another rumbling in the distance every 30 minutes or so at another camp the following night put me to sleep like a distant thunderstorm.

I think this article just goes to show that you can find beauty and wonder anywhere if you’re open to seeing it. Even the mosquitoes in interior Alaska don’t bother me because it is simply the world I live in.
by arnaudbonzom84 | 2025-09-27 21:57:05+00:00
I'm hosting an intimate fireside chat with Nicolas Dessaigne in San Francisco on October 7 at 6 PM.

Nicolas co-founded and led Algolia (now valued at $2B+, ranked in YC's top 100 alongside Airbnb and Stripe). He's now a YC General Partner who has mentored hundreds of startups through over 3,000 hours of office hours.

We'll be discussing his journey scaling Algolia to 350 people, lessons from YC, and what he looks for in founders today.

Details: - Date: October 7 - Time: 6:00 PM - Location: INSEAD San Francisco Hub (SOMA)

RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/hJSfxKhW4Kp8zy2J3N2C

Would love to see folks from the HN community there - and feel free to share on X or LinkedIn if you think others would enjoy it!
by hajile | 2025-09-27 21:57:10+00:00
A19 has WAY less bandwidth on its 64-bit bus than desktop chips with 128-bit busses . AMD’s strix halo is also slower despite a 256-bit bus.

Pushing this point further, x86 chips are also slower when the entire task fits in cache.

The real observation is how this isn’t some Apple black magic. All three of the big ARM core designers (Apple, ARM, and Qualcomm) are now beating x86 in raw performance and stomping them in performance per watt (and in performance per watt per area).

It’s not just apples deep pockets either. AMD spent more in R&D than ARM’s entire gross profit margin last I checked. Either AMD sucks or x86 has more technical roadblocks than some people like to believe.
by bsder | 2025-09-27 21:57:19+00:00
No argument. All the "modern" JBL soundbars were just as crappy as the rest of the "modern" soundbars.

I remember buying that soundbar (back at Fry's!) and all the soundbars were pretty much just as good (well, the Bose ones were garbage and overpriced, but let's not get started about that ...). They weren't audiophile quality, but they were good enough that an amateur like my wife really couldn't tell much difference.

What the hell happened that caused soundbars to go to shit?
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 21:57:36+00:00
If you have a specific use case in mind you might as well just test that use case directly. E.g. PTS (Phoronix Test Suite) is not a traditional benchmark, it's a workload tester, and it's right up that alley (though you then run into the problem of "the workload I care to compare doesn't run on an iPhone at all", at which point you either compare generalities again or don't care anymore).
by commandersaki | 2025-09-27 21:58:00+00:00
Fair, to entertain the thought though, it'd make little sense if it was COTS due to either a loss or razor thin margins due to low demand. However nobody is stopping a hardware integrator approaching Apple to use it, but it'd probably be stupid expensive and shrouded in secrecy as Apple would not want to cede full control of its deployment due to things like Secure Enclave.
by bapak | 2025-09-27 21:58:01+00:00
> The vast majority of the market is totally uninterested in docking their phone like that though

s/uninterested/unaware/

In reality, for such hardware to make sense, it would have to be a full MacBook Air minus the PCB. Would you be willing to spend 500-1000 USD for a piece of hardware that only works when your phone is connected? (i.e. an iPhone accessory)
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 21:58:08+00:00
Something to keep in mind in the comments when talking about climate change and CO2 levels is that it’s not the level so much as the rate. We’re on the path to doubling (or have doubled if you look at CO2 equivalents) global CO2 levels faster than likely any other time in earths entire history. We have the CO2 levels equivalent to a time period when the earths poles didn’t have ice caps and instead forests in the span of about 200 years.

Every organism and ecosystem you’ve ever encountered in your life is adapted to an Ice Age climate, but we’ve recreated the conditions of a Hot House earth. Species and ecosystems adapt on much slower time scales. They cannot adapt to changes this abrupt, which means they will necessarily collapse if we do nothing and allow emit CO2. Every other time in earths history that the CO2 levels have rapidly risen it’s lead to a mass extinction. Yes it’s been hotter before but that change happened gradually. It’s like the joke about poison vs medicine, it’s the dose that kills you.
by figassis | 2025-09-27 21:59:18+00:00
wrt App Store security, Apple could publish the minimum security and privacy guidelines that app stores needed to implement to participate.

This is how security works. This is how companies get to process credit cards, how businesses get certified for all sorts of things, and the process for approval is clear. I have never seen a security policy where it’s only secure if we do it. This is what autocratic presidents do to perpetuate their reign.
by nis0s | 2025-09-27 21:59:23+00:00
I don’t know if you’re serious but in case you are a bit of friendly advice. Deep breaths and relax.

Good news is that it’s unlikely you’re unemployed because of your skin or religion. There are a lot of Muslims everywhere doing great work, making strides and their skin is probably darker than yours. I encourage you to network and meet all types of people instead of getting mind fucked by social media.

The hard news is that whatever is going on with your unemployment stuff it’s probably something to reflect on. I’d suggest getting in touch with the career center at your school to fix your resume and cover letter, to start. Maybe they also have a career fair coming up you could attend. Maybe you could even find jobs in the MENA region where you’d like to work?

All in all, stay off social media if it’s upsetting you. It’s toxic for the mind if you’re not able to handle it.