MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pornel | 2025-09-21 15:22:53+00:00
The press release doesn't give any concrete numbers, but if it doubles efficiency of Peltier coolers, it's still 3-5× less efficient than heat pumps.

Thermoelectric cooling is notable for not having any moving parts and ability to scale down to small sizes, so it might end up having many specialized applications, but for A/C heat pumps are already very effective.
by kleiba | 2025-09-21 15:23:04+00:00
It's not really that hard to learn how to hone a knife. There's different techniques that work and I'd think anyone who loves to cook regularly hones their knives anyway.

Now, sharpening is a bit of a different story but also totally achievable with a little investment (money for some stone(s) and time for practice). But you're right, if you cannot be bothered to do that yourself, it's definitely better to have your knives sharpened professionally than to use dull knives in the kitchen.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-09-21 15:23:17+00:00
Nah it's completely different and experience in a workplace isn't really about proving what you're describing it's about knowing someone else trusted this person to be able to deliver in a professional context which is very different from what is considered delivering in an academic context.

Also you have to keep in mind just how oversubscribed academic qualifications are now so you're more just placing yourself at the starting line and whats more important is what you did outside that institution.
by thegrim33 | 2025-09-21 15:23:20+00:00
Level 2 demonstrates an annoyance I have with such captachas. It states to select all squares containing a stop sign. It becomes some sort of game theory around what I think other people think a stop sign "is". I would consider all parts of the stop sign, including its metal stand, part of the sign. Other people apparently think only the top bit, the red bit, of the stop sign "is" the stop sign.

If I'm supposed to select all squares "containing a motorcycle", and one square contains just a couple pixels of the edge of it, would other people select that square or not? I would, since it contains pixels of a motorcycle, but apparently, again, most people disagree with me, because I'll get it wrong if I do that.

It just drives me crazy having to choose what I think other people would choose, rather than choosing what I believe is objectively "correct". Maybe you could argue that's part of the test, to know what other humans would choose. But I don't think that was the original intent/design. I'm constantly second guessing myself on these types of captchas, and constantly getting them wrong.
by Supermancho | 2025-09-21 15:23:32+00:00
The problem is one of scale, at the macro level.

The upside to large countries is that they are economically and militarily stronger, on average. This is leads to a high resistance to outside influence. The downside is large enough (arbitrary) populations encompass multiple ideologies and understandings of the world, which lead to infighting and ultimately destabilization. Note the 3.5% rule, among cultural drift and competing economic incentives.

On the flip side, a small concentrated population is more stable internally, but is fragile to outside influences.

The short answer is the masses are precisely who should rule. The long answer is that they can't if you want the nation to be independent. I posit, there is no optimal balance. There are only different choices that ultimately lead to ruin.
by smsm42 | 2025-09-21 15:23:39+00:00
Psychopatic behavior seems to be a major problem for these (of course it doesn't think so it can't be called that but that's the closest term that fits). They are trained to arrive at the result, and if the most likely path to it is faking it and lying about it, then that's what you are getting. And if you find it, it will cheerfully admit it and try to make s better lie that you'd believe.
by fny | 2025-09-21 15:23:55+00:00
It's dangerous to make sloppy comparisons like that.

Augustus seized all the levers of power to create the Roman Empire and even developed a cult-like following.

Similarly, claiming there aren't two political camps is sloppy in the current environment.

Corporates and oligarchs are a completely different animal, and they deserve treatment as such.

They are not some homogenous, totalitarian entity: they're more akin to what Rome was before the Empire--a melange of senators fighting about everything while trying to stay rich.
by danaris | 2025-09-21 15:23:59+00:00
I would say that the distinction between the two groups is, roughly:

"Corporates" are the leaders of the many large corporations in this country. They want broad protections for corporate power against labour, corporate profits, lowered regulations, etc.

"Oligarchs" are the leaders of the few titanic corporations, like Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg. They want to become the zaibatsu of modern America, essentially being given total control over the economy divided up between them.

There are many things they want that are in common (for instance, the removal of regulations), but that prime desire of the oligarchs is directly at odds with the continued existence and livelihoods of the corporates.
by jcims | 2025-09-21 15:24:32+00:00
Oh nice catch on the sharpening bit! I don't know that I'd be able to resist on the finer grits.

The only thing you really need to keep kitchen knives sharp is the habit of sharpening them. That said I've been using this recently for utility sharpening - https://worksharptools.com/products/precision-adjust-knife-s...

It's a bit clunky but I tend to obsess over the angle of the grind, and something that physically constrains that is going to allow me to enjoy the process. For general purpose sharpening you don't need much more than a coarse stone (320 grit) and a honing steel. The coarse stone will bring the edge back (learn how to feel for the burr) and regular use of the steel will keep it in good cutting shape until it wears down. You might not get hair-popping razor sharpness, but that's a fairly short-lived state with kitchen knives unless you do a lot of maintenance.
by palata | 2025-09-21 15:24:39+00:00
> Graphene is planning to make their own phone though

I don't think it will be their own phone, and I hope they don't go down that route.

They are talking with an OEM to help them increase their security to reach the requirements of GrapheneOS, at which point GrapheneOS will be able to support those non-Pixel phones.

> I don't use Google software at all, not even their search engine or email, but I find that buying Google hardware is acceptable since the bootloader is unlocked.

Same here. I've been a user of /e/OS for 4.5 years. I have come to the conclusion that the only Android system worth its while in terms of security is GrapheneOS. If it wasn't for it, I would go with an iPhone. And I do avoid TooBigTech as much as I can (I even self-host some stuff for that). But the hardware situation is the way it is, and the Pixels are simply superior at the moment.
Show HN: Deep Space Sleep: 1hr generative ambient piece made in SuperCollider [video]
by dethbird | 2025-09-21 15:24:49+00:00
I created a 1-hour ambient soundscape using SuperCollider. No loops or samples — just real-time procedural synthesis.

Designed for sleep, focus, or background listening. Black screen after intro.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DxFqWu_-7k

Lots of use of LFBrownNoise: https://dethbird.com/lfbrownnoise-your-rando-wandering-frien...
by peteforde | 2025-09-21 15:25:45+00:00
I am so tired of this style of "don't believe your lying eyes" conjecture.

I'm a career coder and I used LLMs primarily to rapidly produce code for domains that I don't have deep experience in. Instead of spending days or weeks getting up to speed on an SDK I might need once, I have a pair programmer that doesn't check their phone or need to pick up their kids at 4:30pm.

If you don't want to use LLMs, nobody is forcing you. Burning energy trying to convince people to whom the benefits of LLMs are self-evident many times over that they are imagining things is insulting the intelligence of everyone in the conversation.
by cmiles74 | 2025-09-21 15:26:02+00:00
I read the book and can recommend it. It was both interesting and, in places, had a good sense of humor. It was interesting to see the intersection of news coverage I had read with the author’s inside perspective.

IMHO, the book has little or nothing about the kind of things we usually see called out in NDA breaches: ideas or code names from products, details on contract negotiations with competitors, internal processes, etc. The author was involved with managing relationships between Facebook and foreign governments and this makes up the meat of the book.
by tpmoney | 2025-09-21 15:26:18+00:00
I think that true statements could be considered disparaging. Consider something like:

"Zelphirkalt claims they do not abuse their child. Despite this their kid has been seen at the ER for broken bones multiple times in the last 10 years, and spent a few months in therapy."

Even if I know that your kid's ER visits were for:

1) a broken leg from a fall out of a tree

2) a broken finger from their martial arts lessons

3) a broken nose from defending themselves in a fight

and that the therapy was mandated by the school system as a result of the fight and a "zero tolerance" policy, the text of the statements in question are still absolute truth. I've just phrased it in such a way (and declined to report on other truths) that a reader is encouraged to draw the conclusion that you abuse your kid physically and emotionally. I think if I published something like that in a book, you'd certainly consider it disparaging, and I think a court might agree if you were enforcing a non-disparagement contract I had signed with you.

That said (at least in the US) I doubt a court would find it to be "libel" or "slander", since those are MUCH higher bars to clear by default and assuming you were a famous individual (or company like facebook) the bar is even higher. Something like this would likely hinge on my own reputation and how likely a reader is to assume I'm speaking from "hidden knowledge" as opposed to coming to a given conclusion from public knowledge.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-21 15:26:49+00:00
OK, then honestly it's hard for me to have any sympathy for the idea that she was "coerced". She was being paid lots... but wasn't getting paid even more?

If you're an executive at Facebook, you should know how to research negotiation and compensation, and figure out a living situation where you're saving money. You're in the big leagues. If Sheryl expected her to be able to hire a full time nanny, then that's an excellent time to renegotiate a salary than can afford that.

If you're an entry-level worker who can't make ends meet in San Fran then of course I sympathize greatly! But if you're an executive at Facebook making enough money that you can even consider a full time nanny... you're not facing any level of "hardship" by which an offer of even more money in exchange for non-disparagement could be considered "coercion". Nobody is in poverty here. Nobody is going to wind up hungry or on the street.
by treyd | 2025-09-21 15:26:52+00:00
Corporates understand that a strong economy is important for the system to be viable long term and that some kind of middle class is a necessary part of it, which they can skim off the top of. Oligarchs don't care about that nearly as much, and are more acutely focused on accumulation of power and wealth and are happy to disassemble productive capacity and force the middle class down to an a working poor class in the process.
by nunez | 2025-09-21 15:26:53+00:00
(comment 2/2) I got the Air to solve a very specific problem: taking up less space in my hip pack.

It more than exceeded my expectations in this regard while also being _shockingly_ light.

I have not been this excited about an iPhone since the X, and I felt like the hype was warranted.

This phone is a masterpiece. It is finally a worthy successor to my Minis.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-21 15:27:05+00:00
You can’t be forced to sign away your rights, but you can make an agreement to enter into an arrangement with confidential information with another party and agree to penalties if the contract is broken.

Making anyone free to reveal anything without consequences even after entering into an agreement about it isn’t going to work. You’re probably thinking only about the narrow case where a company is wrong and the employee is whistleblowing, but that is protected when done through the right channels.

However this wasn’t really whistleblowing. This was someone trying to make profit on her own book and sell more copies by sharing info she agreed not to.
by gf000 | 2025-09-21 15:27:07+00:00
I mean, they were pretty trivial electronic components with a tiny screen wrapped in a kg of plastic. Like, what even could go wrong with them?

But modern smartphones are anything like that, and people do like the more premium materials on the outside (and it sort of makes sense - if you have a device that you are using 24/7, it might as well "feel" more premium), so I don't think it's a fair comparison
by mindslight | 2025-09-21 15:27:21+00:00
> Reddit, a whole lot of comments go from Nazi parallels to 'Luigi'.

oof. I certainly understand where Luigi came from, but I'd also say that Luigi represents an escalation that empowers the Trump regime. The general population's latent desire to see some "justice" metered out on the "elites" pushes those elites into cozying up to Trump. Because those elites know that if Trump chooses to go after them, even the masses against Trump aren't going to be terribly concerned with their plight.
by jcastro | 2025-09-21 15:27:23+00:00
Co-maintainer here. I dogfooded Silverblue for about 2 years before deciding to do this. Initially Bluefin was just a "fix me script" that did the usual bits. When bootc came around this let me put that script in GitHub CI and then just consume the fixes I want. A few of us started to do this and then since a bunch of us were kubernetes nerds we defaulted into "let's make this together."

Here are some of the changes:

- We add all the codecs, and drivers in the build step so the user never has to care.

- We turn on automatic updates by default, these are silent

- We remove Fedora's broken flatpak remote and go full Flathub out of the box

- We handle major version updates for you in CI, there's no "distro release day" update that's just a normal update that day

- Since we use bootc it's easy for people to FROM any of our images and make a custom build, and we ship a template for anyone to do so: https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template

- You can turn on "developer mode" which gives you vscode with devcontainers, docker, incus, etc in addition to podman.

- We integrate homebrew out of the box for package management for the CLI, flathub handles the GUI packages - we don't want to be a distro, in this world the base image is a base image and my relationship is with brew and flathub. I don't need or want to have a relationship with my OS.

- We gate kernel versions to avoid regressions, so we can avoid certain releases or "ride it out" until fixes are published.

- We ship [Bazaar](https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar) - which is a flatpak only store designed for performance. Since the OS is a different layer we can throw away all those packagekit jankfests and start from scratch.

As for the desktop, I worked on Ubuntu for about a decade and wasn't happy with the direction Ubuntu was going at the time. Fedora had rpm-ostree/bootc but didn't know what to do with it so they were just sitting on the tech. So I just combined them, the desktop has an Ubuntu-like layout and vibe.

The clear benefit is that you have one image for everything, whereas local layering in Silverblue doesn't really make sense to me anymore, if you want to handle a bunch of local packages just use a traditional distro. Because doing that in Silverblue breaks just as often as it does in package distros. Pure image mode is the strongest benefit. It's 2025 I refuse to do "post installation crap" that should be automated, bootc lets me do that!

More info here since I'm leaving out a bunch of stuff: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/introduction
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-21 15:27:28+00:00
I feel at this point ‘vibe coding’ is just a disparaging phrase of any AI coding assistance.

As always people can create both good and bad code using the tools at their disposal but right now there’s a lot of upvotes to be had online by simply posting ‘lol vibe coding so dumb!’. It’s tiring at this point.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-21 15:27:50+00:00
> Fair point, but the issue isn’t that she got paid.

Then we shouldn’t assert that it matters. I’m glad we agreed ultimately it doesn’t, but I just want to be very clear there.

The half-million advance does not mean she can’t be going bankrupt. As I said, it’s not exactly lottery money, especially when 10% of that is at risk for every offense she’s up for, and she is struggling to get the rest of her money the book would net because of their blocking it. You’re ignoring a ton of context and overstating how much 500k should solve her financial woes.

Also, it’s not “buried,” it’s in the article clear as day. You just think it should be the first thing stated.

Frankly I’m not sure what your aim is here. You’re being wildly charitable to Facebook here, whereas I would think we should start on her side until we see reason not to be.
by devzx | 2025-09-21 15:28:01+00:00
I argued that they are not committing a genocide and by every provable metric they aren't. I asked you a very simple question that you can't or refuse to answer, and I suspect its because if you answer honestly you'll come to the only logical conclusion. I'll also put to you that the only actual genocide that took place during this conflict was on October 7th.
by g-b-r | 2025-09-21 15:28:30+00:00
> From POV of Israelies they gave Palestinians (2) and got a genocide in returns.

The one Israeli prime minister who was about to give the Palestinians (2) was killed by an Israeli

> Looking at Palestinians behavior they only want (1) that it's basically genocide for all Jewish Israelies. I guess it more complicated than you think

Wanting their land back does not imply wanting to exterminate its present occupants.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-21 15:28:46+00:00
[Too late, sorry for the delay, but I had to think about it.]

That ooks like a good reason. Looking at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref... , the magic is in the LHS or the RHS, and in ??= the magic is explicitly in the connection. Here, IMHO, the problem is that the magic jumps from one side to the other. Anyway, I don't use C#.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-21 15:29:00+00:00
There are absolutely jobs that require credentials and for good reasons that I fully support. I'm not talking about these jobs. It's the ones that require a credential, but the job duties do not involve the skillsets associated with that credential. An easy way to spot these is if the requirement is something like a 'bachelors degree'. Doesn't matter what field, you just have to have gone to university. This is BS requirement.
by mettamage | 2025-09-21 15:29:28+00:00
> it's about knowing someone else trusted this person to be able to deliver in a professional context which is very different from what is considered delivering in an academic context.

How is it different? When you work in motivated groups at uni you split the work and rely on each other to do your part at a high quality. That’s also true for real work. Often enough you depend on certain things that your team mate does like finishing some part of a codebase while you worked on the theoretical underpinnings of an exploit and drafted that code. And now you can place your code into her code and rowhammer via JS works now.

I just don’t see the difference. Oh, and my performance reviews are “we are really happy with your work”. I used to work as a SWE and now as a data analyst. It all feels like school to me.

> Also you have to keep in mind just how oversubscribed academic qualifications are now so you're more just placing yourself at the starting line and whats more important is what you did outside that institution.

I see that it’s oversubscribed.
by k310 | 2025-09-21 15:30:49+00:00
Caveat: I did sysadmin/jack-of-all-trades work, with an emphasis on sendmail and friends that opened some doors, but not others where it was the prime qualification. Why?

At some point, you are going to fail the age test at FAANG+, with emphasis on the "A". I interviewed at one startup and absolutely aced the interview and "exam". They hired a couple of kids, so when the systems crashed on a weekend, they were partying in Tahoe, but you know what? Nobody cared. They were bought out by a two-letter company. I aced a LOT of interviews, to no avail.

OK, you're then into consulting gigs with really small startups who have no "HR" department, so they goof and actually hire qualified people. But at that point, it really 100% depends on your networking (It may be so for all jobs these days with AI-driven recruiters and AI-driven applicants (out of necessity, if not by choice)).

Build and maintain a large and strong network, and at some point, that might get you past the "gray hair recognition" system.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-21 15:31:16+00:00
Well, I think you did a pretty good job of describing the resources that they are consolidating into that one party that controls the military. For now it's just the National Guard going into cities, but didn't they float the idea of sending Marines to LA? There's so much it's impossible to keep track of what's actually going on.

I've always been of the idea that 100 guys with guns gets wiped out with 1 bomb nowadays, so why do individuals arm themselves to the teeth and LARP in the woods? it is looking more like that's going to be a paramilitary arm, or "private consultants" to ICE and CBP. those resources aren't for nothing, and they certainly aren't for taking down the US military.

This is a WW2 figure who had a song written about him after he was martyred. It became the anthem of the Nazi party. I didn't ever hear about him in my many years in the US, until a few days ago on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
by epistasis | 2025-09-21 15:31:34+00:00
I've had comments flagged for far less inflammatory framing than that comment! And they probably should have been flagged, they resulted in lots of bad discussion. In this thread it's a completely appropriate flagging because it's basically troll bait. People did engage with it in far higher level of thinking than it used, this time, but I think we would all have been better off without this digression.
by bluecalm | 2025-09-21 15:31:45+00:00
Same in many EU countries. Poland and Germany are two examples. For example if someone robs you (or do worse things to you) and you call them out publicly you can be liable if you can't prove it happened.

In practice the law defends the offenders. You can't speak up if you don't have a hard proof. I think it's ridiculous but so is a lot of civil law. Americans often don't appreciate how well they have it in comparison.
by bentt | 2025-09-21 15:32:58+00:00
Once you get a sense for LLM workflow, sometimes the task is not appropriate for it and you do write by hand. In fact, most code I write is by hand.

But if I want a new system and the specs are clear, it can be built up in stages that are testable, and there are bits that would take some research but are well documented… then it can be a win.

The studies that say devs are slower with LLMs is fair because on average, devs don’t know how to optimize for them. Some do though.