MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-28 04:05:33+00:00
This is insane overhead if you want to try and run a "leftist" business. It sounds like Scarlett is a trust fund baby with more money than sense.

I've been running a retail business with similar inventory costs for a couple years. I have one employee and I pay them generously. I personally chip in about 20-30k annually to keep the whole thing afloat. It's definitely possible if you keep things small.

Edit to add: 10k in inventory just doesn't add up. In retail you need to turn over inventory multiple times annually to cover your fixed expenses like staff, rent, etc. if you only have 10k worth of inventory and you're burning >10k a month that means you're selling everything in the store every couple weeks. I don't think books move that quickly, although I could be corrected. Usually the retail standard is turning over inventory 4-5 times annually.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-28 04:06:47+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_Mormonism

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has several teachings about Judaism and the House of Israel. The largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, the LDS Church teaches the belief that the Jewish people are God's chosen people and its members (i.e. Mormons) share a common and literal Israelite ancestry with the Jewish people."

Yes they do. My family is half LDS. We have a cousin name, "Yerusha." Our family patriarch gives money to Zionist causes. Eventually there will be systemic ethnic cleansing in Utah if the Church gains power during an emergency. LDS people have good hearts but their philosophy/theology is backward.

EDIT: I love the spirited response. I must have struck a nerve. I hope I did!
by txrx0000 | 2025-09-28 04:06:58+00:00
I'm trying to say there's no sufficient evidence either way.

The mechanism by which our consciousness emerges remains unresolved, and inquiry has been moving towards more fundamental processes: philosophy -> biology -> physics. We assumed that non-human animals weren't conscious before we understood that the brain is what makes us conscious. Now we're assuming non-biological systems aren't conscious while not understanding what makes the brain conscious.

We're building AI systems that behave more and more like humans. I see no good reason to outright dismiss the possibility that they might be conscious. If anything, it's time to consider it seriously.
by franciscop | 2025-09-28 04:07:39+00:00
I was going to comment on the manufacturer's safety margins, but then I found a graph [1] on the variability of voltage vs temperature and it seems to be a lot steeper than I thought/expected, to the point that I'm wondering how these do not require either training or a voltage regulator to install and operate properly:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Module-voltage-current-v...
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-28 04:10:26+00:00
My point would be that, just about everything you throw at and assign to conservatives as being the only ones doing X Y or Z, we find the same on the left. Sure, it's a different list. But I see posters on college campuses "Hey Fascist Catch" and it makes me extremely angry. Just because people have specific beliefs they are labelled racist or fascist or white supremacist. As someone that was indoctrinated in leftist ideology for 35 years, I have seen all of it break down so hauntingly in front of my eyes in the past 5.
by jsight | 2025-09-28 04:10:28+00:00
It uses an Intel N100, which is an extremely slow CPU. The model sizes that he's using would be pretty slow on a CPU like that. Moving up to something like the AMD AI Max 365 would make a huge difference, but would also cost hundreds of dollars more than his current setup.

Running something much simpler that only did bounding box detection or segmentation would be much cheaper, but he's running fairly full featured LLMs.
by j_timberlake | 2025-09-28 04:10:35+00:00
Transplanted kidneys get rejected by the recipient's immune system eventually, you'd really need to clone the kidney from the individual's DNA to solve the rejection problem. There's also been some success with integrating the DNA from the kidney donor (a human) into the recipient's bone marrow to stop the rejection process, but I hear it can be a brutal procedure in which the original bone marrow must be destroyed using chemotherapy or radiation.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/video-eliminat...

https://www.immunofree.com/how-it-works/

If I were a patient, I'd probably want a pig kidney now and really hope it lasts until something like kidney cloning is a thing.
by k310 | 2025-09-28 04:11:01+00:00
We don't know which other extremely powerful people would go down as well. But the sheer desperation and increasingly spectacular distractions indicate a massive power collapse.

Vance and his crypto bros Thiel and Musk do not have the raw meat appeal of Trump with the masses, and even if they have blackmail on legislators, it might pale by an Epstein data dump.

Just my two cents.
by mongol | 2025-09-28 04:11:13+00:00
The moderation log both explains it very well, and not at all, depending on perspective. When you follow the Discourse and other community forums for a while, you notice that moderation is unevenly applied. Some get permanent bans, other bans counted in hours, if at all. When you are familiar with the names in the moderation log, and the lack of consistency in ruling, you see a very clear moderation bias.

https://github.com/NixOS/moderation/blob/main/moderation-log...
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 04:12:48+00:00
A gutted microwave oven and a satellite tv dish have been demonstrated to disable DJI drones at ranges exceeding 500m - either having them fall out of he sky or trigger return to home. That's broadband jamming on the 2.4GHz radio frequencies though, not sending enough energy to screw with electronic (apart from the sensitive radio receiver frontends).

(This was original DJI Phantom era, so maybe 10 years or so back. I'm not aware of results of similar testing against newer DJI gear, but I doubt it'd be much different, at least for consumer DJI stuff.)
by giardini | 2025-09-28 04:13:12+00:00
The greatest rise in the use of racism has been among people using it to divide and to attack political groups and persons. In a manner similar to calling people "fascists", calling people "racists" is a tried and true way to smear someone with little risk to oneself.

There are openly racist white supremacists and that's how it should be - they are allowed to voice their opinions (thanks to free speech). They aren't a significant minority and they know their day has passed. Best to let such movements die out.

Actor Morgan Freeman said, in answer to a question about how to get rid of racism, “Stop talking about it.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morgan-freeman-black-histo...

It may be too handy and too easy to use racism as a political weapon for some to let go of. For others it may be a crutch they never needed yet perhaps are unwilling to lay down.

Talking to some younger liberals today you'd thing that they actually lived and personally experienced the US's periods of racial turmoil (all the way back to the Civil War and to the establishment of the original 13 colonies). Their outrage is fresh and full-blown. But that suffering was done by their ancestors (the black ones, in particular) not by them. And remember that the Civil War alone in the United States cost many, many white lives: 698,000 by one estimate - most of whom were white.

https://nchstats.com/new-civil-war-death-toll/
by hakfoo | 2025-09-28 04:13:17+00:00
The Pico/RP2040/RP2350 ecosystem is more competitive because it's a distance-to-the-metal thing.

At this point, most "mainstream" Pis are being used with off-the-shelf software or at least an off-the-shelf OS with custom userland code, and the technical details of the Pi are black-boxed away. So any competitor just needs to get you to the same basic "here's a Linux distro with the common packages" to get to a basic product parity, and then can differentiate with more/better/cheaper. This is especially easy when you can target a vertical specifically, like the "router boards" that come with an OpenWRT package.

The Picos are being programmed at a low level. If you want to swap in a STM32 or CH32V, you're a lot more concerned about "are the reference docs available and accurate", "will there be a reference to my specific weirdnesses on Stack Overflow", and "do the dev tools actually work." From that perspective, the RP products are industry leading, at least to a "Nobody ever got fired for buying ~IBM~ RP2040" level.
by chanux | 2025-09-28 04:14:21+00:00
> projects are less "what should we do" but more "when do we want it"

And this usually ends bad. Yet it keeps repeating because there are no lessons learned (but learnings /s).

The powers that be keep calling everything a success until the next reshuffle.

Then it all repeats all over again (I'm clearly jaded by my recent experiences).
by nirui | 2025-09-28 04:14:59+00:00
Oh dear, we are definitely in a bubble, it's just not in the way of total burst.

Back when everybody got into website building, Microsoft released a software called FrontPage, a WYSIWYG HTML editor that could help you build a website, and some of it's backend features too. With the software you can create a website completed with home, newspages and guestbooks, with ease, compare to writing "raw" code.

Now days however, almost all of us are still writing HTML and backend code manually. Why? I believe it's because the tool is too slow to fit in a quick-moving modern world. It takes Microsoft weeks of work just to come out with something that poorly mimics what was invented by an actual web dev in an afternoon.

Humans are adoptive, tools are not. Some times, tools can better humans in productivity, sometime it can't.

AI is still founding it's use cases. Maybe it's good at acting like a cheap, stupid and spying secretary for everyone, and maybe it can write some code for you, but if you ask it to "write me a YouTube", it just can't help you.

Problem is, real boss/user would demand "write me a YouTube" or "build a Fortnite" or "help me make some money". The fact that you have to write a detailed prompt and then debug it's output, is the exact reason why it's not productive. The reality that it can only help you writing code instead of building an actually usable product based on a simple sentence such as "the company has decided to move to online retail, you need to build a system to enable that" is a proof of LLM's shortcomings.

So, AI has limits, and people are finding out. After that, the bubble will shrink to fit it's actual value.
by adrianwaj | 2025-09-28 04:15:01+00:00
Aren't bigger GPUs increasingly being seen on phones? So I'd expect more local AI. And is this true?

"Privacy is the real bottleneck for autonomous AI agents. Sapphire + ROFL looks like a solid answer: on-chain confidentiality for state and logic, off-chain trusted execution for computation."

https://old.reddit.com/r/oasisnetwork/comments/1nqhi4p/is_th...

What does crypto/blockchain have to do with AI?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-28 04:15:11+00:00
Yeah I do not get this mentality at all. So many people in beautiful locations seem obsessed with just recording the experience, and maximizing the number of things recorded, than actually living it. And of course the reality is that those images/videos will just get posted on social media and then forgotten forever, maybe shown to a friend every once in a blue moon. It's not like somebody's going to look at his half assed video of a waterfall months later and be like 'ahhhh - relaxing.'
by fake-name | 2025-09-28 04:15:30+00:00
They do!

Basically anything that consumes solar power incorporates what's called a "MPPT", or maximum power point tracker.

Basically, it's a smart DC-DC converter that continually tracks the voltage/current output of a solar panel and adjusts the load to extract the maximum available power from the panel.

It's not uncommon to have issues with extremely high panel voltages in snowy climates, when they're first illuminated in the morning. If you are close to the maximum voltage your MPPT charger can handle in normal circumstances, extreme cold can even damage things during the initial morning transient. You then have to do oddball things like use a crowbar system to prevent blowing up your MPPT system.

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking )
by tzs | 2025-09-28 04:17:58+00:00
> What if someone actually wants to stay home, and relaxing and relieving stress is playing a new video game or working on some personal project, or even just you know... resting?

It's the "just you know...resting" one that might be a problem. It's not the resting itself that is a problem. Everybody needs to rest. The problem is when people need to take PTO in order to get time for that rest.

Any reasonable job already includes enough time off that workers should be able to get all the rest they need without having to use up some of their PTO.
by tarvaina | 2025-09-28 04:18:32+00:00
Nitpick: The early moves in the game are called fuseki. Joseki refers to well-studied local patterns of moves and they appear through the middle game, not just in the early game.

A couple of things I love about go is that you don't need to memorize fuseki, and that applying joseki correctly is as much a matter of judgment as it is of memory.

(I am a 1 dan go player but haven't played much in the last 15 years.)
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-28 04:18:47+00:00
My feeling is that without gluing all this music together with emergent gay club culture that the similarities are superficial. House is obviously a take-off of what Disco is trying to achieve on the dance floor but so is Parliament and James Brown ins 70's. We might as well say, "electronic music comes from black music in America" but that can't be right because of Kraftwerk and Delia Derbyshire. It wouldn't be wrong to say that George Harrison is a pioneer because of the Electronic Sound record but it all feels a bit like those blog posts that claim that Ringo Starr invented Breakbeat.

I don't think you're wrong I just think there's a, "more right position." I'm open to a plurality of views. It may be the, "real story" has to be a, "multiple perspectives thing." I'm just taken to the idea my perspective is the best.
by ksec | 2025-09-28 04:19:06+00:00
Coming from the old days of BBS and VBulltin, discourse's design has always been something I cant get used to. I think the new Horizon is a lot better. ( Although Spacing and Scaling on my MacBook Pro still looks wired, I guess the desktop mode was designed with large screens in mind. )

Seems to be a bit faster as well. Although nothing compares to HN.
by edgineer | 2025-09-28 04:20:25+00:00
I'm satisfied with the flat fee system. The cost difference is at most $150 per car per year, which is not much to argue over. It is more like eating into the savings from switching from gas to electricity, rather than an additional burden.

The premise of being taxed by mile driven is arguable. People benefit from roads even when they do not drive. AFAIU light passenger traffic has little bearing on the resultant maintenance costs, that most wear comes from heavy trucks.

I do not want separate meters complicating EV charging and accounting.
by westurner | 2025-09-28 04:21:22+00:00
"In situ printing of biodegradable implant for healing critical-sized bone defect" (2025) https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(25)00186-3 .. "Scientists develop 'glue gun' that 3D prints bone grafts directly onto fractures" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141049

> Osteopromotive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopromotive :

>> Osteopromotive describes a material that promotes the de novo formation of bone.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-28 04:22:00+00:00
> The desired type is known; it's "Addable" (i.e., "doesn't throw an exception when the built-in add operator is used").

The mistake both you and the reddit posts' author make is treating the `+` operator the same as you would an interface method. Despite Python having __add__/__radd__ methods, this isn't true, nor is it true in many other programming languages. For example, Go doesn't have a way to express "can use the + operator" at all, and "can use comparison operators" is defined as an explicit union between built-in types.[0] In C# you could only do this as of .NET 7, which was released in Nov 2022[1] -- was the C# type system unusable for the 17 years prior, when it didn't support this scenario?

If this were any operation on `a` and `b` other than a built-in operator, such as `a.foo(b)`, it would be trivial to define a Protocol (which the author does in Step 4) and have everything work as expected. It's only because of misunderstanding of basic Python that the author continues to struggle for another 1000 words before concluding that type checking is bad. It's an extremely cherry-picked and unrealistic scenario either from someone who is clueless, or knows what they're doing and is intentionally being malicious in order to engagement bait.[2]

This isn't to say Python (or Go, or C#) has the best type system, and it certainly lacks compared to Rust which is a very valid complaint, but "I can't express 'type which supports the '+' operator'" is an insanely esoteric and unusual case, unsupported in many languages, that it's disingenuous to use it as an excuse for why people shouldn't bother with type hinting at all.

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/cmp#Ordered

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/generics/m...

[2] actually reading through the reddit comments, the author specifically says they were engagement baiting so... I guess they had enough Python knowledge to trick people into thinking type hinting was bad, fair enough!
by serf | 2025-09-28 04:22:17+00:00
for one, if we're allowed to peek under the hood : motivation.

a desire not to despair is itself a component of despair. if one was fulfilling a personal motivation to despair (like an llm might) it could be argued that the whole concept of despair falls apart.

how do you hope to have lost all hope? it's circular.. and so probably a poor abstraction.

( despair: the complete loss or absence of hope. )
by bawolff | 2025-09-28 04:22:39+00:00
In star trek they only figured that out in 2024, so we are only a year late.

And honestly, the way us politics are headed, a "bell riots" type event doesn't even seem that implausible. (Learning from it on the other hand does seem implausible)

[For those not into star trek lore, the way star trek became a utopia was first the government put poor people in internment camps, eventually triggering violent riots in 2024, which eventually lead to people learning from their mistakes and a utopia society. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots ]
by avidiax | 2025-09-28 04:24:28+00:00
You might think that the voltage rise could be too fast for most protective technologies to save the downstream electronics, but the general case is that the temperature slowly drops and the sun slowly rises. So the voltage should slowly approach the limit.

Adding a normally-open relay and a voltmeter and a microcontroller should fix this. Relay won't close on startup unless the voltage is safe. Microcontroller will open the relay if the voltage gradually nears the limit. Should be solvable for <$5 in parts.

Dark start (when the batteries are flat w/o grid power) will be challenging. There will need to be a small battery to power the voltmeter and relay, or a high-voltage tolerant supply to power the microcontroller and relay temporarily. A 9V should likely be sufficient.
by gdiamos | 2025-09-28 04:25:42+00:00
LLM app telemetry is important, but I don’t think we have seen the right metrics yet. Nothing has convinced me that they are more useful than modern app telemetry

I don’t think tool calls or prompts or rag hits are it

That’s like saying that C++ app observability is about looking at every sys call and their arguments

Sure, if you are the OS it’s easy to instrument that, but IMO I’d rather just attach to my app and look at the logs
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-28 04:28:33+00:00
A family member needed a kidney transplant in the early 60s. This was in the UK where the first successful transplant was in 1959, so just a few years earlier.

Thanks to a kid on a motorcycle she got a kidney just in the nick of time.

She was in her early 20s and was told she could expect a few years. Because of that she never had kids.

Her donated kidney served her well and she lived a quite normal life. She passed when it finally gave up when she was close to 70.

So those "few years" turned into almost 50.

Interestingly she mentioned she was told to take some strong medicine after the transplant. She got this feeling it wasn't good for her and stopped taking them soon after, without telling the docs of course.

She always wondered if that was the reason it held out so long.
by ineedasername | 2025-09-28 04:29:18+00:00
Make a few mini game versions, eg rooms of 20, everyone has 10 seconds to write something, 5 seconds to vote in which goes in, person with most voted-in things wins the round and/or gets to set the base pic for the new room. Rotating or random themes for the sorts of things you can suggest, edit wars where teams have to get something edited towards their end-state goal, while the other team is promoted edits for something else.

A bunch of game modes like this, freemium ad supported where paid versions or in game currency lets you setup custom games, private rooms, “super prompt” power where your prompt gets 2x the weigh.
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 04:30:20+00:00
I'm fairly certain clay pigeon shooting type ammunition and aiming skills stand reasonable chances of hitting even small drones and doing sufficient damage to knock then out of the sky, but only at maybe 50m or so range. A typical attack drone like the types used in Ukraine right now are probably capable doing well over 30m/s on final approach, so it'd be a tough interception still, only about a one second window to get your shot off before it's likely to deliver it's payload ballistically even if you have scored a direct hit.

I suspect the same sort of skills displayed in Ukraine building home made Ardupilot based drones with optical final stage guidance could also be turned to building multi barrel "Phalanx-style" shotgun setups on manual plus computer-optical assisted aiming, in a form factor compact enough to be installed in the back of a Hilux. And that'd be very much the sort of mostly Commercial Off The Shelf approach that seems to do so well tipping the asymmetric warfare in Ukraine's favour in this war.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-28 04:31:08+00:00
We can combat it by passing laws that don't make it so easy to create 1,000 identities on every social platform. In the grand scheme, it's not even a very complex problem to solve. Our lawmakers, however, are completely asleep at the wheel and the owners of these platforms are happy to facilitate foreign disinformation campaigns for the traffic they create.
by majormajor | 2025-09-28 04:31:16+00:00
Everyone in the US misses the 50s, marginal tax rates were crazy high. "Oh, but people had lots of deductions and not many people actually paid the top rates" - yeah, that's exactly the point, it encouraged money to be spread around more. And a whole lot of people prospered, while government revenue was less lopsidedly concentrated too.

Get people away from paycheck-to-paycheck debt loads and you've improved a lot of lives regardless of if those people are egalitarians who will then vote for utopian policies. We know that allowing more and more consolidation ain't the move.
by esjeon | 2025-09-28 04:32:09+00:00
I'm really puzzled by that statement.

RFC 4253(SSH Transport Layer Protocol)[1] says:

It is expected that in most environments, only 2 round-trips will be needed for full key exchange, server authentication, service request, and acceptance notification of service request. The worst case is 3 round-trips.

I've never experienced any issues w/ session initialization time. It should be affected by the configuration of both server and client.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4253