MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nrclark | 2025-10-07 21:21:27+00:00
afaik, Raspberry Pis move around 7M units annually.

Based on their first announced product (https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q), I think Qualcomm is trying to get into that space, and they bought Arduino for the brand name.

You're right that Qualcomm isn't in the business of small business. But maybe they expect that the market is big enough that it's worth their while to pay a subsidiary (Arduino) to do it.
by mothballed | 2025-10-07 21:22:16+00:00
If that's true that's the same thing as Supreme Court simply having all the power isn't it? SCOTUS largely serves as a veto power on the other two branches. If they can actually unilaterally make a binding interpretation of the constitution then they could simply declare the constitution is actually saying SCOTUS has all of the federal powers and that Clarence Thomas is King.

SCOTUS has been relied on far too much as a method of legitimation of extra-constitutional powers. People know they are lying bastard, but because the court-gods have used their holy powers to interpret the constitution as magically meaning stuff like intrastate commerce is actually interstate commerce and sawn off shotguns aren't actually protected 'arms' then many gullible zealots will actually believe that.
by mhurron | 2025-10-07 21:22:31+00:00
This is a law enforcement action. If the government is going to give itself the ability to strip the ability of a citizen or resident to access services that are their right to access, and an increasing number of those services are online access, it should be done within the confines and oversight of the law.

This is a disgusting power grab. 'Because I said so, trust me' is not a justification.
by kmoser | 2025-10-07 21:22:53+00:00
Permanently stopping those proposals wouldn't necessarily eliminate illegal, back-door mass government surveillance, nor would it eliminate private sector mass surveillance (think social media) which then gets accessed by the government (whether legally or not).

Fighting corruption only works when enough people fight it at enough levels, and continue to fight it. There is no getting around the fact that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-10-07 21:22:53+00:00
If you hang around certain spaces of the internet (here, Reddit, etc), any sufficiently popular post about a Rust-related project is bound to accrue some comments along the lines of "Rust is actually not that great", "rewriting is bound to gain new bugs that won't be caught", "the borrow checker is practically byzantine and not worth the trouble", "C is perfectly adequate", "more advanced type systems are less useful than writing more tests", etc. I would even say that comments of this nature constituted a good chunk of the discussion around the US government's C-to-Rust initiative (a very popular post with a lot of comments).
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-07 21:23:11+00:00
Here in the States iOS, XBox, PlayStation and Nintendo's various gaming platforms are all perfectly legal walled gardens.

If you don't like that, you have to do what they did in the EU and change the law.

Fraud is illegal here today, and Google's marketing was definitely fraudulent, so there is clearly something that can be done about it today.
by jgilias | 2025-10-07 21:23:13+00:00
Because you mostly end up generating when you don’t need the power, and need the power when you’re not generating.

If the way things are structured in your country let you draw the same amount of kWh that you’ve put into the network, that works. Where I live they recently changed to buying the solar at market prices. When the sun is up during sunny months that’s zero or close to that. So you pretty much need the battery installation too.

My neighbour got a solar + battery installation, and it works well enough!
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 21:23:22+00:00
Hey, OP here, just sharing that I only wrote the first answer to your comment, not the next one. Wouldn't want to dismiss your issue!

I have been running performance checks during the morning and tried with other browsers, used the debugging tools. I can see why it could be slow but I definitely need more trials to understand where it comes from. Bear with us while we're on it :)

and as i said earlier, this is really helpful for us to know so thank you
by anonym29 | 2025-10-07 21:23:28+00:00
I'm not advocating against the existence of a Flock map, which is a good thing. I'm arguing that it shouldn't be hosted behind a CDN that openly cooperates with the same totalitarian surveillance state that the site in question is attempting to help people protect themselves from.

This is almost like hiring an off-duty police officer from your local police department to protect you from corrupt local police department.

The argument isn't take the site offline, it's to not use infrastructure that is openly recognized as being subservient to the same adversary the site's authors are trying to protect people from.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-07 21:23:36+00:00
>If you look at the concrete laws, they are less spectacular.

And if you look at how these laws are used by politicians they look quite spectacular.

>And libel only applies to statements of facts. I.e. you can't (easily) be prosecuted for opinions, just for making harmful false claims.

The Wikipedia article and how the law was applied article disagrees.

Do not forget that this applies to insults. E.g. calling a politician "dumb" is enough to get sued. These laws create a way for politicians specifically to prosecute people criticizing them. This isn't a hypothetical, it is how the law is actually used.
by gruez | 2025-10-07 21:23:45+00:00
It matters because the wording of the OP implies they're targeting citizens, but in reality they're getting caught in the dragnet. That's regrettable, but it's unclear how it's worse than any other sort of law enforcement, which also have false positives. According to wikipedia the felony conviction rate in the US is only 68%, which implies for every 100 "criminals" that are arrested, there are 32 "innocent" people. That's probably far worse than ICE's rate of catching citizens, so does that mean we can call the entire US law enforcement apparatus a "paramilitary force"? One final thing to note, Canada's conviction rate is even lower at 62%, and China's is even higher at 99.975%.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-10-07 21:23:54+00:00
> And behind the scenes, work on the next catalogue had already begun – a process lasting several months and involving planning, construction of interiors, photography and filming, all led by catalogue manager Mia Olsson Tunér.

It is naive to assume printing costs are the only costs involved.

I feel comfortable assuming IKEA had a better understanding of the economic fundamentals of the catalogue than HN commenters.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-07 21:23:55+00:00
Yes. But I’d temper the word "learning", because even the study itself doesn’t imply that. It refers to "brain responses."

"Prenatal linguistic exposure shapes language brain responses at birth"

<https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08594-8>

By the way, it's a great research paper (as far as I can understand it), and in my opinion, the Université de Montréal summary doesn't do it justice.
by nine_k | 2025-10-07 21:24:16+00:00
It's often framed as useless monkey business, rewriting working software to produce a copy of it but in another language, for questionable benefits.

I'd say that rewriting anything in any language (even in the same language) would remove large amounts of cruft, and add long-missing neat things that are easier to add when you build from scratch, and with a good understanding which the original authors lacked. Often it also can afford using a better architecture, see rg vs grep: grep has many brilliant technical solutions, but making it multithreaded would be a major rewrite anyway.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-07 21:24:31+00:00
> On one hand, I think people underestimate how much energy our grids demand in a 24 hour cycle. The amount of lithium it would take to handle an unusually cloudy week would be astronomical.

but thats why you have more than one energy source right?

Even on a cloudy week, I still generate power, just not enough. Thats why I'm not truely off grid, otherwise I'd need to move from 5kwp(3 electrical) to 15kwp.

Mind you, the most expensive thing for doing that is either the inverters, or the mounts. Its got to the point that solar panels are cheaper than 18mm plywood.
by Zigurd | 2025-10-07 21:25:17+00:00
I wrote a book about Macintosh programming in C in the 1980s, when the first self hosted C compilers became available. At the time, I could barely write a coherent paragraph. Before Stackoverflow and other online resources people were desperate enough to buy tens of thousands of copies. I made serious money off of that.

I quit writing books about coding when I wrote one with a team of amazing co-authors about Android programming that was 100 times better than my first book and sold a 10th of the number of copies.

Unless you're Peter Norton, you never made a lot of money writing books even when it was profitable to do so. And I suspect a lot of Peter Norton books had ghost writers.
by Zak | 2025-10-07 21:25:36+00:00
A piece of open source software running on Alice's computer exchanges keys with a piece of open source software running on Bob's computer. Later Alice and Bob exchange messages encrypted with those keys through Charlie's server.

Eve, a police officer has evidence that Alice and Bob are messaging each other about crimes and obtains a warrant to require Charlie to intercept their communication. Charlie has no ability to do so because it is encrypted with keys known only by Alice and Bob.

If you want a different result, someone has to proactively change part of this process. Which part should change?

One option is to mandate that any encrypted messaging software also give a key to the government or the government's designee, but someone using open source software can modify it so that it doesn't do that, which would be hard or impossible to detect without a forensic search of their device.

Another option is to mandate that a service provider like Charlie's only deliver messages after verifying that it can decrypt them. This, too is hard to enforce because users can layer additional encryption on top of the existing protocol. Signal's predecessor TextSecure did that over SMS.

Both of those options introduce a serious security vulnerability if the mechanism for accessing the mandatory escrowed keys were ever compromised. Would you like to suggest another mechanism?
by bityard | 2025-10-07 21:25:49+00:00
> in places near busy airports I hear that a sizable fraction of all cloud cover is due to lingering contrails

Hmm. I don't know about that. My understanding is that contrails only (or mainly?) form at higher altitudes. Most of the traffic around a busy airport is low-altitude take-offs and landings. I live practically next door to a busy international airport and can't say I ever notice contrails, except for a few off in the distance around dusk.

I notice a lot more contrails when I'm out in rural "flyover country", but that might also just be because you typically get to see much more of the sky when you're out in the middle of nowhere.
by madamelic | 2025-10-07 21:26:13+00:00
How complex of tasks can you give it? Seems, not to be punny, super basic.

Can it do complex tasks like "pick up socks from room A, drive to room B, and put in basket"? Is the intention to allow hobbyists to do actual work with it or is this version purely novelty rather than a functional "personal robot"?

Additionally, what is the limitation on speed of movement? It seems very slow in movement, is that intentional for safety or is that purely because of running the AI model locally?
by ericd | 2025-10-07 21:26:32+00:00
Well, very few in the US realize that residential solar in the US is 3x the price it is in Australia, let alone that a lot of it caused by regulatory structures, so it’s hard to say it’s a conscious choice we’ve made…

But yeah, would be great if we could do something about it.

There are some baby steps - Maryland passed a law last year to force adoption of uniform permitting process via NREL’s SolarApp+, hopefully that’ll make a dent.
by kgwgk | 2025-10-07 21:26:55+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/oracle-si...

Oracle Sinks on Report Its Cloud Margins Are Lower Than Expected

Jeran Wittenstein October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM GMT+2

Oracle Corp. shares tumbled after a report that the software maker’s profit margin in its cloud computing business is lower than many on Wall Street have been estimating.

While Oracle generated roughly $900 million in revenue from the rental of servers powered by Nvidia Corp. chips during the three months ended in August, the company only managed about $125 million in gross profit, the Information reported, citing internal corporate documents.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 21:27:10+00:00
> Interior enforcement is the focus currently

If it is, it's being pursued corruptly and incompetently.

From the top of the thread, ICE is spending boatloads more money to deport just about as many people as Obama did with a tenth of the budget [1]. Cross-border encounters are within 100,000, so the difference is not explained by recividism.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506994
by varispeed | 2025-10-07 21:27:11+00:00
The reaction is very weak, though. Chat Control is an act of terrorism and it should have triggered criminal investigation why this has gone this far.

Before you downvote:

If terrorism is defined as using violence or threats to intimidate a population for political or ideological ends, then “Chat Control” qualifies in substance. Violence doesn’t have to leave blood. Psychological and coercive violence is recognised in domestic law (see coercive control offences) and by the WHO. It causes measurable harm to bodies and minds.

The aim is intimidation. The whole purpose is to make people too scared to speak freely. That is intimidation of a population, by design.

It is ideological. The ideology is mass control - keeping people compliant by stripping them of private spaces to think, talk, and dissent.

The only reason it’s not “terrorism” on paper is because states write definitions that exempt themselves. But in plain terms, the act is indistinguishable in effect from terrorism: deliberate fear, coercion, and the destruction of free will.

You can argue legality if you like, but the substance matches the textbook definition.

These people should be arrested.
by ggreer | 2025-10-07 21:27:13+00:00
I don't understand the door handle remark. The 2026 Leaf uses flush door handles that are powered by electric motors.

While it's true that the base model Leaf is cheaper, I don't think it's available for sale in the US yet. The cheapest inventory I could find was the SV+ for $36,330.[1] I'm guessing like most car manufacturers launching an updated product, Nissan is rolling out their higher margin versions first and will release the cheaper ones after the holidays.

That said, the Leaf does seem like a competitive product. My only worry would be battery issues. Nissan has recalled almost every Leaf produced in the US from 2019-2022 because fast charging could cause battery fires.[2][3] Nissan claimed they'd issue a software update to fix the issue by November of 2024. That was updated to spring of 2025,[4] but there still hasn't been an update. I guess it's fortunate for owners that CHAdeMO chargers are so rare.

1. https://www.nissanusa.com/shopping-tools/search-inventory?mo...

2. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V700-1828.PDF

3. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V655-5278.pdf

4. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCMN-24V700-2544.pdf
by stackskipton | 2025-10-07 21:27:23+00:00
>You’d need statute giving ICE the power to enforce its will in state courthouses to preempt California law.

Legally, it's up for debate on how much power localities can regulate Federal Law Enforcement operations. Federal Government takes the view that it's restrictions on operations by states is almost zero. There is 9th Circuit Ruling that says states can if "a federal officer [must do] no more than is necessary and proper in the performance of his duty" but that's pretty untested ruling.

States are loath to attempt to regulate Federal Law Enforcement by running it up the courts since their worry is it hits SCOTUS and they come back with "States have no power, LOLZ"
by tstrimple | 2025-10-07 21:27:42+00:00
I think even the parts availability argument starts to fall apart with scales of economy in manufacturing. I can walk into Best Buy today and walk out with a brand new 65" QLED 4k TV for $299 + tax. How much money is someone willing to spend to fix a $300 item? Even if the parts are free, you're better off replacing it if it's going to take more than an hour to fix. Keep in mind the overhead of finding a repair shop, scheduling a drop off, dropping off the TV, waiting for the TV to be repaired, picking up the TV again and remounting it. You can cut more than half of those steps out by buying a new one and it'll be available within the hour. At the rate of progression, it may even be an upgrade!
by bigwheels | 2025-10-07 21:27:45+00:00
F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (f-droid.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794 - 8 days ago, 567 comments

Answering questions about Android developer verification (googleblog.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428832 - 3 days ago, 121 comments
by yibg | 2025-10-07 21:27:55+00:00
I'm not trying to be combative here; genuinely would like to see things from "the other side" here and have a rational discussion. Using some specifics, I see the following as wrong:

1. Doing mass detentions and checking papers. Of course not literally through the entirety of a city, but do you agree this happens in mass at say home depot parking lots, construction sites etc, where ICE doesn't know who exactly is here illegally, so they detain everyone and check. This vs having a specific individual in mind and going to arrest that person.

2. Sending people to countries they have no ties to. CECOT for instance, where they're imprisoned indefinitely without a specific charge.

Do you agree these have happened? If so do you think they're ok?
by monocularvision | 2025-10-07 21:28:07+00:00
Even better: the only “evidence” of Singal’s “anti-trans” views are that his work has been quoted by anti-trans politicians and activists. This is an absolute ridiculous bar to have. Anyone who follows him would be hard-pressed to describe him as “anti-trans” unless you think anything less than a full throated endorsement of self ID and medical transition interventions for minors is “anti-trans”.
by tvier | 2025-10-07 21:29:25+00:00
Controlling how people dress sounds pretty authoritarian to me. The fact that it's currently not acceptable to enter a bank with a covered face would indicate a law banning it in all public locations is not needed.

Taking rights away from people labelled as terrorists is a pretty standard way for governments to control viewpoints. It gives them the power to add any group they don't like to a list, and deport/imprison them with minimal judicial process.

I don't know enough about surveillance of minors to comment on that one.
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 21:29:35+00:00
I can assure your this was a strong consideration of ours and all assets underwent a very strict regime. There is definitely more than other types of website but it's in the median of other robots websites with significants amount of videos.

Not to say I dismiss the comment, definitely looking at it cause it might come from somewhere else. Just that I yet don't see what is the bottleneck.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 21:29:53+00:00
Resignation is a signal that you know your opponent knows how to win so why waste everyone's time playing it out. For high level players you can be confident they know how to win but there might be more than 100 moves left in the game, so not wasting time playing out a losing game is the polite thing.

When playing someone low rated your opponent isn't good enough to think they can win unless there are less than 3 moves left so you may as well just play the rest of it out at that point. Even then, if you are in a simple (rook?) endgame if the low rated player makes a couple right moves you can assume they know the remaining moves so is it worth wasting your time to prove it?
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-07 21:30:10+00:00
I often think of them as a tax on people who don't want to carefully tailor their shopping to line up with shifting "deals" across supermarket chains and over time and those who don't have enough storage-times-consumption to benefit from buy-n-get-one-free on kilo packs of margarine.

I don't think they are identical as such, because my impression is that points would not routinely exceed 5% of your overall shopping unless you got lucky or shopped very carefully, but these days "savings" from avoiding the punishment price regularly accounts for 5-10 pounds out of 100 pounds of shopping. Though maybe more people use the cards now to avoid it so it does average out.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-07 21:30:22+00:00
> Nowadays, ebooks is a huge industry with thousands of new releases every day.

> There's so many high quality books being published each day. It's overwhelming!

Thousands of new releases a day could mean as many as two or three in high quality. That's more than you can read, but not enough to overwhelm anyone. What's overwhelming is the several thousand that are garbage.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-07 21:30:47+00:00
I don’t use bluesky and was never really on Twitter that much if at all but does bluesky not have an ignore feature? If you don’t want to hear from Vance can you not just “ignore” / “unfollow” them? Seems like a pretty basic feature of a communication platform… I think even fark.com allows users to ignore other user’s comments.
by joshuahedlund | 2025-10-07 21:31:08+00:00
How about denying the Fourth Amendment rights of US citizens to be secure in their homes in the recent Chicago apartment raid? https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil

How about detaining US citizens without warrants for days at a time and then releasing with no charges? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-...
by 8note | 2025-10-07 21:31:13+00:00
im fine with the government having this power, but it should go with invoking the notwithstanding claude every time, so it gets the proper level of oversight by canadians.

im not fine with another 20 canadians being kicked out of society every day, especially when there isnt even mail service.

im not in favour of forcing all companies and apps and whathaveyou to implement these checks
by tptacek | 2025-10-07 21:31:30+00:00
No good will come of a fulsome litigation of Singal but it's fair to say that he doesn't go out of his way to avoid these controversies. Sort of like Fredrik deBoer, he's one of journalism's answers to the concept of edgelordery. People who vocally wish he was less influential would do well to remember how much juice they've been giving him.
by jcims | 2025-10-07 21:31:33+00:00
(Just using the browserbase demo)

Knowing it's technically possible is one thing, but giving it a short command and seeing it go log in to a site, scroll around, reply to posts, etc. is eerie.

Also it tied me at wordle today, making the same mistake I did on the second to lass guess. Too bad you can't talk to it while it's working.
by laughing_man | 2025-10-07 21:31:34+00:00
Broadcasters used to say the ads were no louder than the regular programming, but the "density" was higher, so the seem louder, and that if you measured them with a dB meter you wouldn't see any change.

That was years ago, though. I wonder if it was true back then, and if so whether or not it changed over time.