MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cornholio | 2025-09-27 06:09:08+00:00
In any case, it seems like a "simple" problem to solve. An accelerometer chip costs a few cents and the data rates can be handled by a very light wiring harness, ex I2C.

So embedding such a sensor in every rigid component, wiring a single data line to all of them (using the chassis as electrical ground) and feeding the data back to the model seems a trivial way to work around this problem without any kind of real pressure sensitivity. The model knows the inputs it gives to the actuators/servos, so it will quickly learn to predict the free mechanical behavior of the body, and use any deviation to derive data equivalent to pressure and force feedback.

Another possible source of data is the driving current of the motors/actuators which is proportional to the mechanical resistance the limb encounters. All sorts of garbage sources of data that were almost useless noise in the classical approach become valuable with a model large enough.
by SilverSlash | 2025-09-27 06:09:39+00:00
This is a fine example of technical exposition. Very easy to read and understand! Like many others, before this post I hadn't the vaguest idea what atproto was; I always assumed it was some decentralized thing a la crypto. But this actually makes a lot of sense to me and it feels like an objectively good thing.

Except for one thing which has been pointed out by others. Anyone can access *all* of my data over this protocol. I like the idea that a lot of my data is directly accessible similar to the early web. But it would be nice if some of that data was only accessible if the accessor was permitted.

I don't really know much about auth tokens but I'm guessing they shouldn't be that hard to incorporate into this thing? When BlueSky or whatever app queries "@username.com/private/documents" the server expects an auth token, whereas it does not when the app tries accessing "@username.com/bluesky/posts".
by dumpsterdiver | 2025-09-27 06:09:46+00:00
Definitely more Boards of Canada, but Aphex is a big inspiration behind a lot of my prompts (I really just said that, yeah - it's kind of hilarious talking about generated music):

https://suno.com/song/72fbfb06-4af8-407c-824d-051ac4afd64f
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-09-27 06:09:51+00:00
> What's the actual point of doing this?

Hydrogen is heavily used industrially, and today the most common and economical way it is produced is via steam reforming of methane, which emits CO2 as a byproduct. This method has the benefit of outputting solid carbon instead of CO2 while still being economically viable unlike most other ways of generating hydrogen.
by tome | 2025-09-27 06:11:55+00:00
This is basically what my effect system, Bluefin, achieves with its Stream type. "Stream" is an "output channel" that by itself is completely pure. Then, at the point of handling, you can choose to remove the effect in a pure way, by interpreting it in a way that doesn't use any effects, or by using IO, from which you then cannot escape.

https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/bluefin-0.0.17.1...
by Stranger_X | 2025-09-27 06:13:18+00:00
Most of the internet today is designed to keep you scrolling, not connecting. Feeds, followers, likes—endless noise.

But some of us still remember what it felt like to just talk to someone new online. No algorithm. No audience. Just two strangers and a conversation.

That’s why we built StrangerMeet :

One click → one real person (text, voice, or video).

Continue if it matters. End if it doesn’t.

Nothing to scroll. Nothing to “like.” Just people.

We think the internet needs less content and more connection. Do you?
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-27 06:13:25+00:00
Qwen 32B is a dense model. The competitors for GPT-OSS 20B are max 8B dense models. You’re comparing it against models it’s not competing with and calling it crap. That’s like saying Ferrari is better than Toyota. Sure, but only if we’re comparing 0-60. If we add a budget of 20K, suddenly the Toyota starts looking more competitive.

I never claimed it was a frontier model. Just best in class for the performance it can achieve and the memory footprint it can fit in.

And btw OSS did super well on domain specific tests without fine tuning. A model I don’t need to fine tune beats one that does.
by Woodi | 2025-09-27 06:14:07+00:00
I seriously doubt one computer firewall can give complete protection to that same computer os.

And black lists are uncomplete lists not to mention changes in dns and not to mention possible hardcoded unknown addresses. And white listing game or two and yt and netflix etc is a lot of work, probably with temporal success...

Windows just is not open source... Without NDA. And even with it - is it possible to compile your own Windows binaries and install it ?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-27 06:15:08+00:00
> It's not increasing anyone's taxes.

Don't be disingenuous. If there isn't anyone paying more than they are now then there isn't any additional government revenue.

> Most folks have to pay those taxes on all their income. Why should it be any different for the folks with the highest incomes?

The way social security works is that you pay in proportion to your income and then you receive social security payments in proportion to what you paid. There is a cap on both of these. You're proposing to only remove the cap on one of them. That's the same "fairness" argument for not solving the problem by making social security payments according to need or in fixed amounts, so if you're not concerned about that fairness equation then you already have a way of solving the problem without raising taxes.

> What's more, I can say from experience that not paying SS/Medicare taxes over the arbitrary limit makes exactly zero material difference in my quality of life.

This is what I mean by tax incidence. It's not your life which is affected. You're just putting the extra money in your IRA or whatever. But at scale that has consequences for other people. What do you expect happens if you take literally trillions of dollars out of capital markets?
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-27 06:15:41+00:00
We're near a non-military regional airport. Apparently the military likes the airspace above our neighborhoods to train Blackhawk crews. IDK which branch because the craft have zero insignia. Flightradar24 only id's them as Blackhawks.

They fly 1-3 at a time in a several mile loop. The parade begins late afternoon and ends at 10pm. I'm grateful we don't get the giant all-night FU, that the GP gets from their local LEO.
by tobr | 2025-09-27 06:17:24+00:00
> The line on the left is a trail of a flying insect, not a laser beam. It is a curved, short line segment.

That photo has some serious fisheye distortion going on though, so the line could very well be straight. Also, flying insects aren’t a common sight in freezing temperatures, and the photo clearly shows lots of snow.

Not suggesting that it is a laser beam, just not convinced that it would be an insect.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-27 06:18:56+00:00
It doesn't matter who controls social media; federated or not, social media is inherently harmful to humans. In a few years we will find out it's like cigarettes. Addictive and harmful, and needs regulation, if not outright bans.

But going back to this obsession about data. It's really an obsession with control. But none of you really have control. You hope that you can "engineer" your way into control of your own lives, of your data, even of the way the world works. But engineers do not have power. Businessmen do. Until you realize that, you will continue writing technical specifications like this, making micro-communities, and missing the big picture. Control requires power. Power requires money. If you can't monetize it, you have no control.

Whatever federated thing you think is going to win, isn't going to win, if there isn't enough money to back it. Because someone with money will just make the biggest "federated thing" (or not; it could be completely proprietary and billions of people will still use it), and eventually close it off once they have enough users. You cannot engineer your way out of money, politics, or human nature.
by microtonal | 2025-09-27 06:19:04+00:00
100% agree. I have almost never travelled with my Advantage2 or 360 when I still had them. But the Glove80 is so light that it’s easy to carry with me.

The Advantage helped me a lot, but the Glove80 is the only keyboard I’ve truly loved using. The key well is insanely well-designed and even though the tenting is a bit of work to set up, it is really tailored to my preferred angle.

MoErgo is also expanding the Choc keyboard space with really nice silent switches (Cherry/Plum Blossom) and keycaps.
by wulfstan | 2025-09-27 06:19:41+00:00
OPs experience working their way up the keyboard stack is very similar to my own. I settled on the Dygma Raise. I now own one of the Raise and Raise 2.

Yes, they are a lot of money. I don’t have time to game any more, and they clearly focus mainly on gamers. But if you’re a software / IT person your wrists are your livelihood, so for goodness sakes invest in them. There is no silver bullet and you will probably have to try a number of possible solutions if you suffer from wrist and forearm pain when working, but do not ignore it and take your workplace ergonomics seriously.

For younger engineers, learn to minimise your “travel” and learning editor shortcuts, terminal shortcuts and similar so that you can be smoothly productive with constantly shifting from mouse to keyboard and back again. And take regular breaks! Get up and walk around. If you are WFH get out for walk at lunch.

In general, care for your body so that you may write code into your 80s.
by watwut | 2025-09-27 06:19:56+00:00
> Also, recipients see senders themselves as more untrustworthy.

Yeah, of course, lol. And if you send me human generated garbage, I will trust you less too.

> With more companies insisting staff rely more on AI - or face losing their jobs - the rise in workslop is somewhat understandable. Since staff are growing increasingly likely to use the technology, the temptation to take shortcuts is more probable and

I find this contradictory. If the company is forcing people to use AI and expects individual productivity growth, then it is NOT "shortcut" to use ai to speed up. They are not taking shortcut, they are doing what they were told to do. And if it leads to slop, maybe the company should pressure them less.

This is like telling to nkt test REST services and then pikachu face reporting REST has more bugs, because testers "took shortcut by testing only ui".
by fleekonpoint | 2025-09-27 06:20:18+00:00
Not sure if the author is reading these comments but if you like the Moonlander but don’t like how the thumb cluster is tied to the tenting angle, I strongly recommend their ZSA tenting solution. It makes the whole thing a lot sturdier but more importantly it lets you adjust the tenting angle independently from the thumb cluster angle. You can also probably find used ones online.

I know you mention it already in the article but it is really worth trying out. You even get more tenting angles that would previously be impossible without it. And it just makes the whole thing a lot sturdier.
by fecal_henge | 2025-09-27 06:21:04+00:00
To reply to this and the above comment:

Cheapest light pipe on digikey: 16 cents Cheapest photodiode on digikey: 11 cents Cheapest LED (obviously that annoying blue): 625 milli cents!

Part costs matter! Its not just the BOM, its the NRE from the increased complexity. Im not saying saying its OK, just that its inevitable considering the economic conditions.

I do board level designs and drop down LEDs. If you are not specialising in indicators, its hard to visualise how bright 10mA through your diode is going to be. Add to this that sometimes you never even see the thing you designed!
by uxcolumbo | 2025-09-27 06:21:46+00:00
This is an interesting perspective.

Generating ‘content’ tailored to you and not meant for someone else’s taste.

Human artists need to make money and those who create music for a tiny bubble probably can’t make enough.

So as an artist what do you do? Do you have to create music with mass market appeal from the beginning?

Or do you need to bank on luck that your music for ‘small bubbles’ gets discovered?

Or you have to have clever marketing strategies to get your music in front of more ears to hopefully gain more fans. And create merch, tour etc.

I wonder how all this AI music is going to impact indie artists. Spotify and the likes is just ripping them off and on top of that their music is / has been stolen from these AI data gobblers.

I don’t see how at this stage it can replace human expression though (singing, playing violin, piano, etc) which is very nuanced.

Same with acting… nuanced expressions that matter. I’m not sure AI can replicate the acting skills of Denise Gough (Dedra from Andor) for example… and many others.

But it would be awesome to generate more story lines or episodes from your favourite TV shows, for example shows from over 20 years ago.

Imagine being able to create more episodes of Star Trek TNG or DS9, maintaining the feel of that era without letting someone like Kurtzmann ruin and tell you how new Star Trek should be.

But how do you ensure actors, writers and other creatives from that show will be compensated directly?

Or maybe this will only be possible in a Star Trek like world, where profit uber alles is not the focus anymore.
by soganess | 2025-09-27 06:22:55+00:00
I think you’re right. I’ve eaten vegan most of my life and take creatine to make up for the lack of it in my diet with no downsides. It gives me a little more energy for workouts and runs. I don’t look bigger or bulkier, just feel a bit sharper.

I also understand the discomfort with the culture of “optimize everything” and constant self-experimentation. Supplements like creatine get framed as steps toward some perfect, engineered version of ourselves, and that framing feels like a hangover of eugenics thinking. It causes an acute, if subconscious, aversion that can manifest in the cool dismal of your parent's comment.

That unease matters. Maybe if we were more objective we would say it should not matter, but it does. And, while I often just ignore it, I am not sure I want to fully let go of it yet.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-27 06:22:58+00:00
That must be a new feature? This didn't exist when I got my UHK, and was why I ended up selling my Moonlander.

How long does the flash take? Having it in Chrome is a great step forward, but if it still takes 10-20s to flash that would still prevent the sort of feedback loop that I found so transformational.
by kragen | 2025-09-27 06:23:33+00:00
I found out today that the rechargeable batteries in my cordless landline phone are basically fake. They're NiMH AAAs, Highpower brand. I bought replacements because they were dying, and the replacements (rewraps by a domestic importer) weigh twice as much, 13 grams instead of 7, and purport to have 1000mAh capacity instead of the 300 advertised by the Highpower cells. Hmm, maybe that's why the phone wasn't working very well...

But those are (probably!) NiMH. No idea what brand of lions are in this cellphone, my laptop, my other laptop, my MicroPC, my other cellphone, etc.
by arp242 | 2025-09-27 06:24:15+00:00
Sorry, I meant "roughly identical [to my Go program]", not "roughly identical [to the version without OpenSSL]". The ~/verify binary is my little Go program that is ~4 times faster on my Void system, but is of roughly equal performance on the Arch system, to check that coreutils is not slower than Go (when using OpenSSL). Sorry, I probably didn't make that too clear.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-27 06:24:44+00:00
You don't mention that MoE models horrible damage logprobs (by definition) and basically need a whole new theory of LLM sampling written for them.

Dense models are better for a reason, and the idea that "everyone is doing MoE now and dense models are dead" is total bunk nonsense.

You can quantize dense models, and 4 bit quantized Qwen 32B is still better than full precision GPT-OSS. Luckily Unsloth even gives you tools to go down to 1.58bits!
by slj | 2025-09-27 06:26:27+00:00
Used Traefik a couple times in my homelab, would’ve been circa 2017/2018. Worked great when it worked, otherwise it tended toward breaking ungracefully and confusingly. Tried it again for a short time in 2022, rock solid, no complaints. I’m glad to see the project’s maturity has kept up! Congratulations on ten years!
by asabla | 2025-09-27 06:28:01+00:00
I'm always so confused by those statements as well. Because just like you, I feel that the 20B version is really good at following instructions.

Some of the qwen models are too, but they seem to need a bit more handholding.

This is of course just anecdotal from my end. And I've been slacking on keeping up with evals while testing at home
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-27 06:28:26+00:00
The central valley is where growth is expected. See growth projections into the middle of the century. It is expected to double in population. Look at the rate of growth already. These "little towns" of 100k people basically double in size every 20 years. Greenfield is where the growth happens because CA urban politicians are against meaningful amounts of infill development. If they built it along the 5 in 50 years when the central valley has over 15 million people, you'd say it was foolish not serving these communities when they had a chance.

Brightline is building a victorville to vegas train. They have no plan to reach LA. Maybe as close as Rancho Cucamonga. In either case no work has been done yet on that project while construction on the HSR is ongoing.
by lfliosdjf | 2025-09-27 06:29:25+00:00
This is just CEO-Brain bullshit. These people keep thinking we live to work, instead of work to live. What they forget is that yes many CEOs and "Founders" do work insane hours. But thats because they expect that at the end of the rainbow they will look in their bank account and behold a stupid number of zeros in their bank balance.

But the rest of us have our labour effectively stolen from us. We make the boss a million dollars off our labour and in return we get maybe $100K. For most americans, a lot less. Its almost as if 3/4 of the week we are working for free. And they want us to do more? Fuck no. I want to spend time with my girl and the kids. I want to spend time playing in punk bands, or shooting scrubs in videogames.. I want a fucking holiday.

If they want me to spend MORE time in the office, and especially if they want 72 hours a week, then I want to see at least six zeros hitting my bank account every goddamn year. And then in a year or so I'll say "Bite me", and take those years, find a nice house in the south west forests and live out my years fishing or growing murder-chillis or doing sick leadbreaks.

These billionares, they aren't like us, and they arent on our side.
by xigoi | 2025-09-27 06:29:26+00:00
> We should pick a platform that is federated, where you have ownership and autonomy over your identity and your audience. Social media should not be own-able by a single group or person. Social media is serious business. It ties directly to human rights and business outcomes. It shouldn't be in anyone else's control but yours.

I agree, but why not also apply the same logic to the other two communication platforms you are using (Discord and GitHub)?
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-27 06:30:19+00:00
The more generic trend could be people who perfectly hit the same keys the same way again and again.

I've seen it with people religiously sticking to an optimal typing method which limits their hand movement to an extreme. They were crazy fast but RSI was a common subject of discussion, regardless of posture or hardware quality.

We had the same issue with gaming controllers, some with guitar learning etc. There's a limit on how much we're able to repeat the same movement again and again, it depended on what movement and who did it, but the only ones who didn't get any RSI simply avoided extreme repetitions.

And buffs. Sometimes building more and more muscles solve the issues entirely, if that's what you're into.
by deknos | 2025-09-27 06:30:56+00:00
i am still of the opinion, if they would extend sieve quite a bit and standardize markdown/reST/asciidoc as rendered in emailreaders, we could probably get much more usage of mail again

(sieve would need additional features of sending/processing mails and reencrypting imho)

but mail is still less broken then mobile phone networks.
by soganess | 2025-09-27 06:31:13+00:00
> The kind of person...

That's on me, I came in hot and you came back hotter. Apologies.

Let me take the temp down and ask it a different way. You don't feel weird saying there is an epidemic happening to our kids (again, something I’m at least partially convinced of), but we can't really put together a narrative one-tenth as cohesive as what we have for the efficacy of gray-market/off-label Ozempic?
by danpalmer | 2025-09-27 06:31:22+00:00
My point about the buses is about "missing the forest for the trees", so the fact that you've focused on getting a specific citable example while missing the point is quite ironic.

Here's an industry article about the phenomenon: https://enotrans.org/article/a-bus-is-a-bus-the-costs-of-exc...

And here's a study documenting excess customisation as a driver of the costs: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/paying-less-for... – which notes that "70 percent of contracts in the BGS data in 2024 were for unique buses".
by noduerme | 2025-09-27 06:32:18+00:00
You have multiple worlds, but in this one your choices and events seem to be deterministic. Meanwhile you make all other possible choices in all other worlds. So zoom out. How did you end up in this world and not one of the others? Why are you conscious of this one and not that one? Because in that one, just as in this one, your consciousness is defined by your choices. You are not the same you over there. That really is the essence of free will, isn't it? You are the you who exercised the free will to go this way, not that way. The world each of you live in is a combination of external events and your own decisions.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-27 06:32:52+00:00
It's an empirical fact that in all the years from the founding to the passage of the 17th Amendment the US federal government was much smaller than it quickly became in the years following its passage, so all of the available evidence is consistent with the theory.

Moreover, the mechanism of operation makes logical sense. Senators want to keep their seats and state legislators don't want to have their own regulations preempted by federal laws unnecessarily and don't want excessive federal spending because money collected in federal taxes can't be collected in state taxes and taxpayers have a threshold level of total taxation they're willing to put up with

So I'm not sure what you're asking for other than logic and evidence.
by abandonliberty | 2025-09-27 06:33:54+00:00
It's incredibly difficult to stop a well-funded, 50-year plan to subvert a democracy. The attention spans of politicians, corporations, and the public are measured in days, months, or years, not decades.

After 9/11, the Bush administration was accused of abusing the crisis to expand executive power and the national security state. Those who raised the alarm about things like the Patriot Act were often dismissed as fringe alarmists.

Now, nearly 25 years later, we're seeing the downstream effects of that gradual degradation of democratic pillars.

On both sides, voters and politicians can be influenced by propaganda and campaign finance to accept small, incremental changes that don't seem dangerous in isolation, but can cumulate to crush an empire.

Every democracy carries these risks. Do we think our opponents haven't noticed?