MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hermannj314 | 2025-09-20 23:07:12+00:00
I was hoping someone would say this. I think the virtue of the trademark is an implied warranty of the value of the brand.

I would like to live in a world where deceptive trade practices did not exist.

Imagine selling a "full-self driving auto-pilot hands-free car!" And then arguing all the letters are lower case in the brand name so all those dead drivers should have known better and should have bought the capital F version.
by Moto7451 | 2025-09-20 23:07:15+00:00
Knives are already high tech and the GP’s point that you don’t need an ultrasonic knife is valid even if “QVC product” is inaccurate. They’re not just hunks of steel. Sharp knives can be dulled by abuse which something that vibrates will be vulnerable to as well.

This is akin to the already established very expensive powdered steel knives. Do you need this to have a sharp knife? Nope. Is anyone wrong for wanting it? No.
by questionableans | 2025-09-20 23:07:45+00:00
The true measure of a country isn’t a number like GDP, per capita income/wealth, or tax revenues. It’s how good of a place it is for everyone to live. If we have to keep family members out because medical costs are out of control, we’ve failed. So the question isn’t how to exclude people, it’s how to efficiently provide good healthcare and other basic needs for all. It’s not easy, but it’s what matters.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-20 23:07:57+00:00
Saying "gravity and concrete are undefeated" is not explanatory.

In 25+ years of carrying a naked mobile phone everywhere I've never broken one. My lifestyle theoretically exposes me to significantly greater risk of damage than the average person too. I view phones as semi-disposable devices, so I take no special care or precautions.

I am eternally baffled as to why people need cases on their phones. The observation that many people do seem to break them frequently isn't an explanation. I can't wrap my head around the degree of clumsiness and carelessness that would seem to be required to explain this phenomenon.
by umutdev | 2025-09-20 23:09:33+00:00
level 47 cheat ``` // Keep track of already hit notes const hitNotesSet = new WeakSet();

// Define hit zone (adjust based on your game layout) const hitZoneY = window.innerHeight - 150; // ~150px from bottom const tolerance = 20; // allowed error in pixels

function hitNotes() { document.querySelectorAll('.note').forEach(note => { if (hitNotesSet.has(note)) return; // already triggered

const rect = note.getBoundingClientRect(); const noteY = rect.top; // Check if note is in hit zone if (Math.abs(noteY - hitZoneY) <= tolerance) { let arrow = note.innerText.trim(); let keyMap = { '↑': 'ArrowUp', '↓': 'ArrowDown', '←': 'ArrowLeft', '→': 'ArrowRight' }; let key = keyMap[arrow]; if (key) { document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { key })); document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keyup', { key })); hitNotesSet.add(note); // mark as hit } } });

}

setInterval(hitNotes, 20); // check 50x per second ```
by chao- | 2025-09-20 23:10:41+00:00
This is from 2019. It is a very short excerpt from a 2019 book, which is mentioned at the end, but oddly the link is not to the book itself:

https://tylercowen.com/dd-product/big-business/

The two papers referenced appear to be:

Taylor 2013: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...

Taylor 2013 (an appendix diving into the math): https://finance-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/luket/wp-content/u...

Nguyen and Nielsen 2014: http://www.kaspermeisnernielsen.com/WDT_MS.pdf

I was not able to immediately identify the reference to the worker compensation statistic referred to as "Isen 2012".
by fsflover | 2025-09-20 23:11:46+00:00
> Their OS objectively does not provide firmware updates and they've blocked updating SoC firmware.

Yes, because the FSF endorsement matters, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504641. Why does this matter at all how the updates are implemented? The fact is, the updates are possible and being performed via other means.

> Crucially, there aren't cellular radio firmware updates.

This is false:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-firmware-updates/20604

https://forums.puri.sm/t/updating-firmware-on-the-librem-5/2...

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-fw-jail
by calf | 2025-09-20 23:11:58+00:00
I'm an amateur cook, my immediate question was how much the vibration and heating will affect vegetable and meat oxidation and cell damage on the cut surface.

Could this improve the texture and flavor of certain foods? Like make garlic taste even more garlicky? Or could it cause an apple slice to brown faster? Can it be used to slice cooked fish as if it were sashimi? Etc.

If a site like SeriousEats does a product review I hope they focus on qualitative taste, and possibilities for enhancing cooking techniques, not merely saving time/effort to do something.
by rainsford | 2025-09-20 23:12:09+00:00
Even if you can get past general dislike for Musk or don't share that particular view of him, he's demonstrated on multiple occasions that he's willing to personally interfere with how Grok works in order to produce specific outputs more in line with his personal ideology.

That alone seems disqualifying for using a product like this. Even if you share Elon's politics, the whole point of these things is to use lots of data and smart algorithms to generate answers, not regurgitate the opinions of an individual person.
by em-bee | 2025-09-20 23:12:55+00:00
exactly, that's what i thought. must be one of those: it was always done that way, or maybe just, the banks bought machines to print the cards from the US or where they still do that (do they actually?) or simply those machines were cheaper, or who cares, its not like there is a downside to embossing the numbers. it could also be estonians who fled to the US in the previous century returning and bringing back their idea of how it should be done.

i was visiting the baltics in the early 90s and i head that people were desperate to get anything from the west after being cut of for so long.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-20 23:13:24+00:00
I know exactly what your situation is. You're looking for H1B Visa workers which are intended to be highly specialized technical skills that are not locally available in the United States. If a $100,000 fee to bring in a highly technical specialized worker that cannot be found in the United States is too much then you are not looking for a highly specialized technical worker with domain specific knowledge that doesn't exist within the United States.

It's really as simple as that. The H-1B visa system has been abused repeatedly by many corporations and you yourself are seeking to abuse it. I have seen many H-1B visa holders and none of them seem to have highly specialized domain-specific knowledge. I'm sure there's a few that do but the vast majority are average computer science graduates from India that get imported. They do average work and there is nothing special about their knowledge or their skills that they're bringing to this country.

So hire people here first. You absolutely are going to need to pay a US citizen a good 30 to 50% more than what you're going to pay that mediocre H-1B person because if you were looking for a highly specialized person with domain-specific knowledge then you would pay the US person or the H1B person the exact same wage. This fee for H1B Visas is now going to make these companies, and yourself, look very seriously about your hiring practices and your abuse of the system. Because if you need the specialized person the cost is insignificant. Because a one-time $100,000 fee is pennies compared to the salary that you should be paying yearly which is $200,000, and that 200k is not including all of the cost of employment and taxations that you have to pay.

So there's massive holes in your entire story. You're either not seeking skilled domain specific knowledge people or you are absolutely underpaying people who are highly skilled with domain-specific knowledge.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-20 23:14:02+00:00
I read an article on cnn and i'm slightly confused. Is the fee 100k 300k or 1 million? Either way those are insane figures. Can anyone tell me what the fees have been historically and what the fees are in similar countries?

Edit: i read up a bit more on it and i'm unimpressed. Apparently only 65 to 85 thousand of these visas are granted a year and about half of them go to about 5 companies (amazon, microsoft etc) , who can treat these employees however they like, because if they lose their jobs they face deportation.
by juliangoldsmith | 2025-09-20 23:14:04+00:00
I've been using Azure AI Foundry for an ongoing project, and have been extremely dissatisfied.

The first issue I ran into was with them not supporting LLaMA for tool calls. Microsoft stated in February that they were working on it [0], and they were just closing the ticket because they were tracking it internally. I'm not sure why they've been unable to do what took me two hours in over six months, but I am sure they wouldn't be upset by me using the much more expensive OpenAI models.

There are also consistent performance issues, even on small models, as mentioned elsewhere. This is with a rate on the order of one per minute. You can solve that with provisioned throughput units. The cheapest option is one of the GPT models, at a minimum of $10k/month (a bit under half the cost of just renting an A100 server). DeepSeek was a minimum of around $72k/month. I don't remember there being any other non-OpenAI models with a provisioned option.

Given that current usage without provisioning is approximately in the single dollars per month, I have some doubts as to whether we'd be getting our money's worth having to provision capacity.
by Liskni_si | 2025-09-20 23:14:09+00:00
In general, yes, it is easier to exfiltrate the token because if you can control some of the code that runs with the token available as an env var, you can do whatever.

In the specific case of the attack described in the blog post, though, the attackers added an extra GitHub Actions workflow that sent the token to an external server. That means they had enough privileges to change GHA workflows, and could just as easily change a workflow that used Trusted Publishing.

(It may be possible to configure branch protections or rules limiting who/when can trigger the Trusted Publishing workflow, but it's about as difficult as limiting the secret tokens to only be available to some maintainers.)
by crote | 2025-09-20 23:14:48+00:00
How would this even work? Consider the following scenarios:

- Company is fully acquired as-is, nothing changes to the product.

- Business division is spun off as-is, nothing changes to the product.

- Company closes current factory, outsources production as-is to another factory in a different country, nothing changes to the product.

- Company makes minor changes to recipe, nothing substantial changes.

- Company uses different recipe in current factory using current tooling, product is substantially different.

- Same factory is used, production line is completely retooled, product is essentially unrelated.

- Original factory is closed, original company now buys imitation product from a 3rd party factory and still uses the original trademark.

- Trademark is sold, slapped on completely unrelated product.

Clearly it isn't as simple as bait-and-switch. There are plenty of scenarios where a lot can change while the product stays the same, and there are a plenty of scenarios where almost nothing changes and the product is completely different.

It gets even murkier when you look at product lines instead of individual products: at what point do you revoke the trademark when they sloowly switch to the cheaper recipe as part of the regular replacement cycle, with all new products only using the budget option and all the legacy premium products getting retired? And how is it going to work for anything more complicated than glassware - where the quality difference isn't a plain "borosilicate glass or not"?
by crustycoder | 2025-09-20 23:16:03+00:00
The other reason jump changes are not a revolution and have remained just a curiosity is physics, something that's ignored by the article.

For non-ringers, in change ringing the bells rotate 360 degrees each time they strike, from mouth up to mouth up. The clapper hits the bell when the it has rotated roughly 270 degrees from mouth up and is more or less horizontal, approximately 2 seconds after it starts moving. The bells are usually in the 100kg to 1000kg range (for US folks, that's 220lb to 2200lb), although they can be up to 4000kg. The only point when the ringer can exert control on the bell via the rope is when it is near the balance and mouth upwards, and speeding it up or slowing it down any more than one "beat" is physically very difficult on heavier bells, particularly if you are doing it for a full peal, which usually takes 3+ hours.

About the least important thing in the 2022 rules changes (https://framework.cccbr.org.uk/version2) was the allowing of jump changes.

p.s. there's a split-screen video showing the ringer and the bell he's ringing here: https://youtu.be/qrdLP15Xsuk?t=67
by crazygringo | 2025-09-20 23:16:13+00:00
This product isn't about not having to sharpen your knife.

It's about a knife that is ~equivalently sharp to begin with, but slices with less force and less sticking, and can therefore slice things more exactly/easily than otherwise.

Of course you don't need it, but it's fundamentally different from existing knives, which you seem to not be acknowledging. When you say this is akin to "powdered steel knives", no it isn't. Powdered steel is about hardness. Nothing to do with ease of slicing or lack of sticking.

So you're talking about things that have nothing to do with this particular technology.
by era37 | 2025-09-20 23:16:44+00:00
Notepad has always been about simplicity. Adding AI feels like bloat opposed to a feature users were asking for (or would ever want.) Local models are fine, but tying them to Copilot PCs or subscriptions just fragments the user base. If Microsoft wants this to stick, they should make it optional, and stop slowing down the tool people actually rely on.
by adamredwoods | 2025-09-20 23:16:57+00:00
I remember the young runner incident from 2017, very random, very tragic:

>> Cooper was chased and killed by a bear while participating in and completing the juniors' division of the Bird Ridge trail's running race. Cooper called his brother as he descended the trail, to say he was being followed by a bear. Searchers found the runner's remains 500 yards (457 m) from the trail and shot the bear in the face with a shotgun, which scared the bear and forced him into the woods away from the body.
by Moto7451 | 2025-09-20 23:18:15+00:00
On newer MacBooks you can turn on a similar battery protection mechanism to the phones. I believe vs the phones the smaller chargers won’t stress these cells since they’re a lot larger. 20-40W into a 15Wh battery is more stress than the same through a 52Wh (MBA) battery. A 1C charging rate is healthy.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-20 23:18:59+00:00
I don't mind and of course just being a Republican is controversial enough in an online community.

The ridiculous thing is that people actually don't have the world view / awareness that is compatible with the physical reality of a ton of immigrants being Republicans and Trump supporters - and things shifting even more this way as of the last election.

It's ridiculous both because of your opinion doesn't cover that reality then you obviously can't understand because you can't even imagine - and also if you are really trying to fight it then you need to be real about what's happening.
by 0_____0 | 2025-09-20 23:19:23+00:00
Re: more sophisticated

USB-PD now has a standard for having sink devices request a particular current from the charger, meaning that you could actually remove a converter from the sink device side, because with a programmable source, the current limiting happens on the power supply side. Cool stuff especially for small electronics like wearables.

Generally though if you want to charge with USB-PD and accept all kinds of chargers, the sink device will have to have its own charge control PMIC.

All this negotiation happens over a side band via the "CC" pins on the USB-C connector.
by rwnspace | 2025-09-20 23:20:24+00:00
It's not exactly GEB: there many paragraphs that are really just lists of things to go and look at deeper, and are therefore skim-readable (or a useful list of search terms). The chapters are structured quite similarly so you get a feeling of where the meat is after a few. Works well as an occasional downtime book that feeds some good thinking away from it, IMHO
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-20 23:20:45+00:00
> I'm guessing phone cases are still pretty much required if you drop your phone once or twice a month onto cement/asphalt/marble/etc from pocket height.

Here's video of a drop test where the new Pro version survived drops to the pavement on its front, back, and side from hip height, then the same three drops from shoulder height, before finally having the front glass fail in the third drop from as high above his head as dude's arms would reach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof5z3BNTdY

Not exactly super fragile, although the orange finish on the aluminum scuffed up much more easily than the finish they use on titanium frames.
by danabramov | 2025-09-20 23:21:13+00:00
You're misinformed. However, you speak with enough conviction that it seems pointless to try to convince you of something else. If you're curious about what it actually is, and the actual historical road towards it, you're welcome to read my blog — for example, https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/ is a longread on that topic.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 23:22:53+00:00
I agree with your points, I point out for edification that broadcast licenses that regulate use of the EM spectrum don't apply to cable news networks such as the Fox News Channel (FNC) - the terms and conditions differ; things can be legally 'broadcast' on cable channels that are illegal to broadcast on a TV spectrum channel.

No drama, it's just not a "see: example" you should use in discussions such as this.
by derefr | 2025-09-20 23:24:04+00:00
Have you ever tried a bread knife with so-called "micro-serrations" (really something like ~0.5mm tooth depth / pitch)?

The one I have seems to cut just as cleanly as a chef's knife once within a material, but has better ability to bite into material at the start of a cut, when a chef's knife would be slipping off. (Think: a freshly-baked loaf of high-sugar bread, where the outside is relatively stiff, but the inside is so soft that the outside tries to "squish away" from a non-serrated slice.)

I would never use it for dicing, but it's oddly goot at e.g. slicing watermelon.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-20 23:24:27+00:00
No, they weren't! Imports from the vast majority of countries are currently subject to blanket tariffs within 5 percentage points of the April 2 proposal; some (Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc.) have significantly less while others (China, India, Brazil, Switzerland, etc.) have significantly more. Again, no shame for being misled, but it's been wild to see how many people are so extremely confident that this didn't happen.
by paradox460 | 2025-09-20 23:24:27+00:00
Is never say erlang is more elegant than elixir, simply due to things like ending functions with commas vs periods (yes they have actual meaning, no it's not really something worth worrying about), lack of pipes, and lack of things like with

They both compile down to the same bytecode, and both have fairly optimum compilers

As for gleam, it's a fun ml dialect, worth using if that's your thing. Same goes with LFE, if you like lisp
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 23:24:46+00:00
> specific triggers for Putin's actions like 2008's NATO declaration of imminent NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine and American involvement in 2014 coup. Or many years of Putin's warnings accompanying NATO expansion

So then the war has been an abject failure, right? NATO’s borders with Russia have massively expanded. Putin bamboozled.

Except, of course he didn’t, this has always been a war of territorial revanchism. Putin wants to reconquer Moscow’s old colonies. Both him and Trump are stuck in the colonial past.
by Taek | 2025-09-20 23:24:58+00:00
I'm a bit surprised to see how much snark there is in the comment sections of this video. The requests for "let's see an independent chef use this knife to do real kitchen work" make total sense, but the moralizing around e-waste and losing fingers etc feels off balance.

People spend hundreds of dollars and many hours sharpening kitchen knives, of course there's a viable market for sharper kitchen knives. And for e-waste, you are never going to make meaningful progress by telling consumers to feel bad for buying fun things. The problem is so much bigger than that, the energy is better spent in a different place.

This is a cool and novel tool, at least as far as its genuine utility can be verified. It doesn't seem harmful to let people get excited about it.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-20 23:26:18+00:00
It's impossible to know that for sure, these are not procedures based on open discussion and debate.

The administration previously changed policy on undocumented workers in agriculture and hospitality a few times based on the social media reaction of far right influencers, business stakeholders and political organizations.

On 4chan some are trying to organize mass plane ticket reservation to prevent people who are abroad from coming back "in time". So who knows, maybe the newly clarified situation catches up with the far-right influencers and they force a change in the current position and another clarification that says that this fee is for everybody.

Edit: Well, actually this makes it open public discussion over live implementation :)
by t_mann | 2025-09-20 23:27:28+00:00
I can see the point re internal market vs export orientation. But why make the housing market the focal point of wealth creation? Wouldn't the stock market be a much more overall beneficial place to let your population accumulate wealth (which the US also does quite successfully, through 401k, cheap and trustworthy financial products like ETFs, a strong SEC,...)?

Pushing house prices ever higher comes with so many societal problems, and also with serious financial risks. The start of Japan's lost decades, which you mentioned, wasn't weak domestic demand. It was a housing price bubble so extreme that small areas of central Tokio were worth more than all of California. Domestic demand was actually very strong in Japan up until that bubble burst. The biggest financial crisis in the US in recent memory (2008) was also due to the housing market, its consequences eclipsing that of the dotcom bubble or the 1987 crash. That being said, stock market bubbles are no fun either - the Great Depression of the 1930's was caused by a stock market crash. But at least stocks don't tend to push people into homelessness already while they're booming.
by crdrost | 2025-09-20 23:27:32+00:00
I'm really surprised at the whole filtering the rotation matrices thing, to me it is like, the long side of the piece is an arrow, that arrow can be pointed in one of six directions, I can rotate in one of four directions after that, so there's 24 orientations:

orientations = concat [ [ [(0,0,0), (t,0,0), (2*t,0,0), (3*t,0,0), (2*t, a, b)], [(0,0,0), (0,t,0), (0,2*t,0), (0,3*t,0), (a,2*t,b)], [(0,0,0), (0,0,t), (0,0,2*t), (0,0,3*t), (a,b,2*t)] ] | (a, b) <- [(1,0), (-1, 0), (0, 1), (0, -1)], t <- [1, -1]]

With translations, okay, there's 40 of those per piece and figuring out the right direction to go with those requires a cross product, sure, let's just generate 5×5×5 = 125 of them and filter out the right 40. But doing 20,000 determinants and whatever it was, 10-15 paragraphs, to filter out the right 24 orientations doesn't make as much sense to me.