MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wlkr | 2025-09-17 20:28:45+00:00
This is a good article, but in my opinion overlooks changes to the existing display accessibility features as a result of liquid glass (although I appreciate it can't cover absolutely everything). I enable high contrast in light mode (along with some other tweaks, like clearer button indicators). Unfortunately, this is quite a bit worse for me in Tahoe. I'm hoping it improves with future updates but it's annoying. I'm otherwise neutral to slightly negative on liquid glass so far.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-17 20:29:01+00:00
It's been a failure from both sides, attack on expertise and education from regressive elements, media abusing 'experts say' to produce all sorts of clickbait, experts choosing political/PR/convenience over honesty/sincerity and people who are not experts claiming to be experts (the situation here, or where they ask a 'smart guy' like a pop-physicist to talk about something they aren't actually an expert in)
by jraph | 2025-09-17 20:29:04+00:00
I would have loved to see that video 2 months ago. Thanks for sharing.

I tried to put the same kind of desk fan at the window, one way and then the other, for a few hours, to see if it had any effect. It was a very hot day but colder outside than inside. The building's concrete was likely still radiating the heat from the day before and there was no wind.

I see now that my observation at the time was right: it did nothing to the temperature, and it might have worked better if I had put the fan 1-2 meters away from the window, directing it towards the window. Now, whether the effect would have been significant anyway… we'll have to wait for next summer to know, I guess. I'm not particularly looking forward to it, though.
by ttd | 2025-09-17 20:29:16+00:00
I appreciated this - well written and useful review of their business and why they think it didn't work.

In addition to the challenges listed here, IMO there are rapidly diminishing returns for the type of recall learning that spaced repetition enables. As you progress further in your career, there is much less emphasis on what you know, and more emphasis on how you apply it, how you communicate, and how your knowledge ends up helping others around you. I suspect most professionals decide at some point that they need to start "paging out" specific knowledge to make room for broader experience, retrieving it from the bookshelf (swap partition) when needed.

I'm also curious on the fixation with creating a startup in the VC-funded sense. Why choose able-to-find-VC-funding to be your metric of success?
by ferguess_k | 2025-09-17 20:30:02+00:00
Yeah, you are 100% correct. I need to find him a few good hobbies before I release him to the wolf packs.

I don't know. I myself never sticked to a hobby even after trying a lot of them. Genetically speaking he is a lot like me -- lack of discipline, difficult to cool down, impatient, throw tantrums frequently, etc. The list is pretty long :/ Not many good things from this genetic pool TBH.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-17 20:30:15+00:00
Especially now that they target left creators supposedly because of the dangers of left-wing extremism, when in reality the vast majority of political violence comes from the right. Like in a study by the Doj that the regime just removed today from their website:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-depa...
by bradgranath | 2025-09-17 20:30:33+00:00
I picked up an Ultimaker 2+ with 15,000 hours on it at an ewaste junk shop for $100. Really was expecting it to need some TLC, but I plugged it in, leveled the bed, and it spit out an absolutely passable benchy in a couple hours. Cura (Ultimaker's slicer) isn't open source, but it is free, fairly unobtrusive, and works fine. The printer itself isn't connected to anything but mains power, and loads gcode from an SD card.
by zb3 | 2025-09-17 20:30:38+00:00
What ignorance? Safari doesn't support the most important additions:

- memory64

- multiple memories

- JSPI (!!)

I recently explored the possibility of optimizing qemu-wasm in browser[0].. and it turns out that the most important features were those Safari doesn't implement.

[0] https://zb3.me/qemu-wasm-test/
by Spoom | 2025-09-17 20:30:41+00:00
Stating my bias up front, I've been using Linux since Windows Vista, and I'm a fan. That said, I have experienced the same things you did whenever I needed to run Wine for... well, anything. It was clunky as hell.

You should absolutely revisit. Proton has changed the game. Literally the only game I've tried that was remotely difficult to play in SteamOS is Minecraft, likely because Microsoft owns it now. But I was able to get that working too (if anyone's wondering: you want Minecraft Bedrock Launcher, which is in the Discover store if you're on the Steam Deck and here[1] if you're somewhere else; basically it downloads and runs the Android version of Minecraft through a small translation layer, which is essentially identical to the Windows version).

Speed also is greatly improved from previous solutions. Games played through Proton are often very close in terms of performance to playing them natively.
by rybosome | 2025-09-17 20:30:47+00:00
It’s a totally reasonable choice in that context.

I wonder if any sense this is criticism (or actual criticism) is based on implementers of SaaS who have it so deeply ingrained that “haha what if the users of this software did this really extreme thing” is more like “oh shit what if the users of this software did this really extreme thing”.

When I worked on Google cloud storage, I once shipped a feature that briefly broke single-shot uploads of more than 2gb. I didn’t consider this use case because it was so absurd - anything larger than 2mb is recommended to go through a resumable/retryable flow, not a one-shot that either sends it all correctly the first time or fails. Client libraries enforced this, but not the APIs! It was an easy fix with that knowledge, but the lesson remained to me that whatever extreme behaviors you allow in your API will be found, so you have to be very paranoid about what you allow if you don’t want to support it indefinitely (which we tried to do, it was hard).

Anyway in this case that level of paranoia would make no sense. The programmers of this age made amazing, highly coreographed programs that ran exactly as intended on the right hardware and timing.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-17 20:30:48+00:00
I hate to say this. Bambu A1. I'm operating a farm of mixed plumage: 20 Prusa's, 12 Creality K1s and 24 Bambus. Of all of those the Bambus are by far the least troublesome and I would definitely recommend those to a beginner. That said, Bambu is a crap company and they can't be trusted not to do a rugpull sooner or later. We don't have them connected to wifi for that reason alone and tbh it doesn't really add anything to the experience. I like the fact that they're all stand-alone and as long as the power is up the printers are printing. In the last year we've processed about 3000 Kg total with these. In some more detail:

- The Prusa's are real workhorses. They are not the fastest, but they're expensive and they break. But you can always fix them and the degree to which you can tinker with them (especially while they're running) is much higher than the others. I've made a couple of custom ones (one 1x1 meter x 25 cm build volume, five more that are the regular width and length but 60 cm height), with adopted firmware. It's an insanely flexible platform. If you can think of it, handle a hex key and do some minor firmware hacking you can probably make it.

- The K1s... well. Initially we were very impressed. Got a couple to test with, decided they work and ordered 10 more. After a few days the first extruder broke. Gears just snapped their teeth right off. Turns out the extruder gears are plastic. So, ordered upgraded extruders. Next, one after the other, power supplies dying. After that print fans, Then cpu fans. They also had many screws loose right from the factory, we had a whole inspection list made just to structurally address all of the shitty stuff that would be wrong. For $10 more in parts and better QA it could have been a winner.

- The Bambus. We plugged them in. They work. They still do.

People in this thread are mentioning the SOVOL, if you have the money, that's probably the best printer. But I'd get a couple of Bambus instead and get that many more kilos pushed through. At 200 bucks for the mini and 350 or so for the big A1 it's insane value for money.

Does that help? Feel free to ask more questions.
by serial_dev | 2025-09-17 20:31:52+00:00
CrowdStrike is also the company behind Russiagate.

In some circles, it’s considered that they were not completely honest actors, to say the least. My understanding is that the FBI didn’t directly seize the DNC’s physical servers; instead, they relied on CrowdStrike’s forensic images and reports. This is unusual and they could have withhold evidence that didn’t fit “the narrative”, being that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

To ELI5 what could be implied here, they will say whatever the intelligence agencies and the deep state want them to say, creating negative coverage about Chinese technology is kind of their MO. Allegedly.

But as I’m reading the other comments, they have quite a lot of notorious f ups, so I could be wrong.
by jbentley1 | 2025-09-17 20:32:21+00:00
This is a great list for people who want to smugly say "Um, actually" a lot in conversation.

Based on my brief stint doing data work in psychology research, amongst many other problems they are AWFUL at stats. And it isn't a skill issue as much as a cultural one. They teach it wrong and have a "well, everybody else does it" attitude towards p-hacking and other statistical malpractice.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-17 20:32:32+00:00
Personally, I'd still just get the X1C (and I'm not the person above you).

The price difference is low enough now that I'd just take the upgrade. Sure you don't "need" the better screen, better wifi, quieter fan, and default installed hardened nozzle/gear. But they're nice. And OP will want the hardened nozzle/gear if they're printing CAD designed structural parts - PLA is a bad pick for those, you really need to be in the ABS/ASA/PETG/PP materials, and those benefit heavily from the Carbon Fiber/Glass Fiber additions in the filament (PETG-CF and ABS-GF are fantastic).

Back when the difference was closer to $500, sure - get the P1S. But the X1C is frankly a steal at $799. And if you catch the occasional sale, you can get the X1C + AMS combo at literally OPs sticker price ($999).
by anjel | 2025-09-17 20:32:58+00:00
I have a legal education but reading TOS and priv policy docs at account creation is purposefully too time consuming by design.

One my fave new AI prompts: you are my Atty and a expert in privacy law and online contracts-of-adhesion. Review the TOS aggreement at [url] and privacy policies at [url] and brief me on all areas that should be of concern to me.

Takes 90 seconds from start to finish, and reveals how contemptuously illusory these agreements are when SO MANY reserve the right to change anything with no duty to disclose changes.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-17 20:33:13+00:00
I bought one of those Concept 2 rowers based on all the hype online. I absolutely, positively HATED rowing. I did it a lot, but I hated it. The rower got sold this summer, it's out of my life. I much prefer my treadmill and I'll probably get a bike at some point. I hated everything about rowing, though.
by araes | 2025-09-17 20:33:29+00:00
Apparently the answer from the article was that the halos are actually calcium carbonate [CaCO₃] settling around the barrels. Little murky (kind of intended) about how it's turning into calcium carbonate though.

The article says that the area's so alkaline it's pH 12, almost bleach. That then killed off or warded away all the organisms nearby.

Then Brucite [Mg(OH)₂] formed with magnesium in the ocean water. Then somehow (?) that dissolves -> [CaCO₃]

Lots of DDT everywhere apparently, is just uniformly distributed over the area, and does not seem to have any relation to distance from barrels. No real numbers though other than the ph measurement.

Also a little weird that "scientists were not able to identify the specific alkaline waste substances contained within the barrels".

Presentation from the EPA has a pretty decent overview of the subject: [1]

[1] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-12/smbrc-epa...

There's also the investigation website: [2]

[2] https://www.epa.gov/marine-protection-permitting/southern-ca...

Kind of a, "whoa", they dumped radioactive waste and military explosives off the coast of San Diego? At least that stuff is pretty far away though. Sites 10 and 14 for radioactive. Santa Cruz island (nature preserve) or San Nicolas island (Navy weapons testing) are maybe the closest.

6, 11, and 12 for the military explosives. Those a bit closer. 6 is near San Diego. 11 and 12 are near San Clemente and Santa Catalina.

Site #2 in the San Pedro Basin Channel off the coast of Long Beach is the one they're primarily investigating. 148 square kilometers, 25,000 barrel-like targets, and 100,000+ debris objects
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-17 20:33:33+00:00
A "layer" itself represents costs that can be eliminated which can lead to lower prices for buyers.

That is why vertically integrated businesses can peel away business from existing non vertically integrated businesses with lower prices (legal liability notwithstanding). Sometimes it pays to have the business with more to lose insulated from liability by having a layer without much to lose.
by lukax | 2025-09-17 20:34:22+00:00
Is this Triton's reply to NVIDIA's tilus[1]. Tilus is suposed to be lower level (e.g. you have control over registers). NVIDIA really does not want the CUDA ecosystem to move to Triton as Triton also supports AMD and other accelerators. So with Gluon you get access to lower level features and you can stay within Triton ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/tilus
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-09-17 20:34:47+00:00
If you think that through, the answer is: of course! Take for example the move from Swift 1 to 2 (an extreme example but illustrates the point).

If you used a third-party lib written in Swift 1 and you had to move to Swift 2 because the next version of iOS requires the latter. Then you’ll have to wait for the lib developer to publish a version of their third-party lib for Swift 2 before you can publish your app. That’s the same kind of risk that you’re exposed to with source-breaking changes.

Admittedly, source-breaking changes have gotten less frequent in Apple’s major tooling updates, but the right mindset when developing for walled gardens like Apple is that it will happen again.
by mistahchris | 2025-09-17 20:35:18+00:00
I'm still hype about WASM. This looks like a cool release. I'm running some pretty high traffic WASM plugins on envoy, running some plugins for terminal apps (zellij), and for one of my toy side projects, I'm running a wasm web app (rust leptos).

For 2 of those 3 use cases, i think it's not technically the optimal choice, but i think that future may actually come. Congratulations and nice work to everyone involved!
by alphazard | 2025-09-17 20:35:30+00:00
> in fact, the foundational statistical models considered the gold standard for statistics today were developed for this testing.

The normal distribution predates the general factor model of IQ by hundreds of years.[0]

You can try other distributions yourself, it's going to be hard to find one that better fits the existing IQ data than the normal (bell curve) distribution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution#History
by arp242 | 2025-09-17 20:36:11+00:00
I'm feeling that maybe the entire concept of "publishing packages" is something that's not really needed? Instead, the VCS can be used as a "source of truth", with no extra publishing step required.

This is how Go works: you import by URL, e.g. "example.com/whatever/pkgname", which is presumed to be a VCS repo (git, mercurial, subversion, etc.) Versioning is done by VCS tags and branches. You "publish" by adding a tag.

While VCS repos can and have been compromised, this removes an entire attack surface from the equation. If you read every commit or a diff between two tags, then you've seen it all. No need to also diff the .tar.gz packages. I believe this would have prevented this entire incident, and I believe also the one from a few weeks ago (AFAIK that also only relied on compromised npm accounts, and not VCS?)

The main downside is that moving a repo is a bit harder, since the import path will change from "host1.com/pkgname" to "otherhost.com/pkgname", or "github.com/oneuser/repo" to "github.com/otheruser/repo". Arguably, this is a feature – opinions are divided.

Other than that, I can't really think of any advantages a "publish package"-step adds? Maybe I'm missing something? But to me it seems like a relic from the old "upload tar archive to FTP" days before VCS became ubiquitous (or nigh-ubiquitous anyway).
by PeterisP | 2025-09-17 20:36:21+00:00
I'd probably be OK if all the content which doesn't get made without sponsorship wouldn't get made at all, and the people who work as content creators stopped doing so. There is an overabundance of new content, having 10x less content would be perfectly fine, and in pretty much every niche there are amateur enthusiasts who clearly (based on their amount of viewers) are giving their time away, and their content is in many ways preferable and "more real" than the professionals - so I'd be OK if all the professionals stop and these awkward amateur enthusiasts are all that remain.

The same applies to web and blogs; the ability to monetize them by ads (and I do remember the "old web" before it was the case) increased the content but drowned out viewership for the true enthusiasts running things in their spare time, which IMHO were more valuable and I think that regime was better; again, losing 90% or 99% of the content wouldn't be bad in my mind, there still would be more than enough for anyone to ever "consume".
by godelski | 2025-09-17 20:36:46+00:00
This user said almost the same thing[0], so I'll refer you to that. In short, RTFM. The first paragraph says "refuses to help programmers __OR__ gives them code with major security flaws". I hope we know the difference between && and ||.

Also, I'm requesting people post their replication efforts. What is it that you care about? The facts of the matter or finding some flaw? The claims are testable, so idk, I was hoping a community full of "smart people" would not just fall for knee-jerk reactions and pull shit out of their asses? It doesn't take much effort to verify, so why not? If you get good evidence against the WP you have a strong claim against them and we should all be aware. If you have evidence supporting the claim, then shouldn't we all also be aware? Even if not strong we'd at least be able to distinguish malice from stupidity.

Personally, I don't want to be some pawn in some propaganda campaign. If you're going to conjecture, at least do the bare minimum of providing some evidence. That's my only request here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45280673
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-17 20:37:32+00:00
No no no, not the percentage of cars that sometimes carry a load, the percentage of cars on the road that are currently carrying such a load.

If you do that once a week, then you can use transit the other 90% of the time. If people use transit 90% of the time, then we can build smaller roads and de-prioritize cars. That's the argument here, that transit can dominate in co-existence with self-driving cars, not that we'd need to get rid of cars. And especially in the context of waymo there's no effect of "I'm already paying a ton of money to own and insure a car, I might as well use it every trip".

(And again, this is in moderately dense areas where transit works and you actually care about how many cars are on the road to begin with. And it doesn't have to be 90% in particular.)
by sestep | 2025-09-17 20:38:28+00:00
Currently you use Binaryen to build up a representation of a Wasm module, then call emitText to generate a .wat file from that. With wasm-tools you'd do the same thing via the wasm-encoder crate to generate the bytes corresponding to a .wasm file, and then use the wasmprinter crate to convert from the .wasm format to the .wat format. Alternatively, I believe the walrus crate gives you a somewhat higher-level API to do the same thing, but I haven't used it because it's much heavier-weight.
by sputr | 2025-09-17 20:39:35+00:00
As someone who's part of a startup (hrpotentials.com) trying to bring truly scientifically valid psychological testing into HR processes .... yeah. We've been at it for almost 7 years, and we're finally at a point where we can say we have something that actually makes scientific sense - and we're not inventing anything new, just commercializing the science! It only took an electrical engineer (not me) with a strong grasp of statistics working for years with a competent professor of psychology to separate the wheat from the chaff. There's some good science there it's just ... not used much.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-17 20:39:40+00:00
AVX-512 is on the P-cores only (along with AMX now). The E-cores only support 256-bit vectors.

If you're doing a lot of loading and storing, these E-core chips are probably going to outperform the chips with huge cores because they will be idling a lot. For CPU-bound tasks, the P-cores will win hands down.
by j-bos | 2025-09-17 20:40:15+00:00
There was that study by anthropic that showed that an LM fine-tuned on insecure code with no additional separate prompting or fine-tuning would be more willing to act unethically. So maybe this is the equivalent in that the corpus of training data for deep-seek presumably is very biased against certain groups, resulting in less secure code for disfavored groups.
by munificent | 2025-09-17 20:40:48+00:00
Yes.

If you have two speakers playing the same tone (with perhaps different phases), then the distance between you and each speakers will affect the phase at the point that they reach your ears. At different places in the room, the phases will either be out of alignment and cancel out, or in alignment and reinforce. Unless you can literally have both speakers at the exact same position, there's no way have their phase difference be the same across the whole room.

Imagine throwing two rocks into a pond and the way the ripples interact and overlap. It's the exact same phenomenon. If you could throw the two rocks at exactly the same place (and somehow throw a "negative" rock that causes ripples to go up instead of down), then the waves would all cancel out. But if they are in two different locations, you'll get a whole mess of different interactions at different places in the pond.

This isn't an issue with noise-cancelling headphones, because the distance between the incoming sound, the headphone speaker, and your ear is always fixed.
by Retric | 2025-09-17 20:41:55+00:00
It started from an actual theory based around the assumption that spherical motion was perfect. They needed 2 which did actually work for a while, eventually the most accurate model needed ~17 with people giving up on the underlying theory as the number of terms destroyed the initial idea.

Today with vastly more data and more accurate measurements you’d need effectively infinite terms, which makes it more obvious but you don’t need that level of absurdity to render judgment.
by esseph | 2025-09-17 20:41:56+00:00
Not true at all.

FM wideband is something like 88-108MHz.

108-137MHz is a lot of aviation traffic.

7-144MHz lots of long range DX.

Then the 144-148 amateur band.

151-154 Multi Use Radio Service

433MHz has all kinds of sensor data from the world around you.

462-467 Family Radio Service (FRS) / General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS).

900MHz area has different types of beacons, cameras, etc.

1090 for Aviation beacon ADS-B

For other freqs you can often use an upconverter or downconverter to hit the freqs you need.

Examples: https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-addons/upconverters-do...