MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mustache_kimono | 2025-10-07 21:01:24+00:00
> Doxxing people off-platform used to be against the ToS. When people began reporting him for that, Bluesky amended their ToS.

Even by the loosest definition what Singal did was not doxxing?

For instance, Alejandra Caraballo, like it or not, is a public figure. A role, I would add, that she has chosen for herself. She testifies before Congress FFS. When she says something in public, including on Bluesky, I'm not sure she deserves some radical right to not have it heard anywhere else. No matter what vague term you can point to in the Bluesky guidelines or TOS.
by JeremyNT | 2025-10-07 21:02:15+00:00
I guess what's happening ever since the housing market bust is that virtually all asset classes are guaranteed to appreciate at rates that outpace inflation, a guarantee paid for largely by workers whose real wages decrease due to inflation.

You would think "that can't go on forever" but so far workers have failed to organize or support reforms that could correct it. The "hack" to maintain this in perpetuity seems to be distracting workers with get rich quick gambling schemes and culture war xenophobia.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 21:02:39+00:00
Arduino is used by many professionals. It is cheap enough that you can buy it on your corporate cards and you boss won't ask many questions. As such many products start with an Ardunio based demo, and if/when the demo is a success it moves to a real company project with a real budget.

The question though is does this add value for the owners of Arduino? All too often when a project moves from the demo to real engineering (making a demo something you can sell is typically about ten times harder than the demo) you select all new hardware.
by DamonHD | 2025-10-07 21:03:09+00:00
No generator runs 100%. Not so long ago the UK nuke fleet was managing only about 60% caopacity factor. The grid system runs as a whole with generators backing one another up. The last two big load shedding incidents (since the turn of the century, ~500k people had power cut to keep the rest of the grid up) on the GB grid involved thermal generators tripping; the older one was nuke+coal, the newer one gas+wind. And in general we know when the sun is going down a long time in advance so grid operators can plan for it!
by arandr0x | 2025-10-07 21:03:24+00:00
I'm unfamiliar with the business of finding illegal immigrants. Isn't the idea of detaining them that you're worried they might flee if they know they're going to be deported? If so isn't it counterproductive for ICE to make noise (announcing themselves basically) if doing a 5am raid for farm workers? You'd think showing up at the field in a separate bus and spreading out would work best.
by hbn | 2025-10-07 21:03:27+00:00
Endless raving about how painless and troubleshoot-free Linux is and then you try installing it on your very standard-built PC and face major glaring issues and then get told you're the idiot for not junking your perfectly good GPU from the most popular GPU maker and most valuable company on the planet.

I'm sure it's Nvidia's fault for whatever reason but Linux proselytizers need to stop being so dishonest about how pain-free switching is.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 21:03:49+00:00
That's not really aligned with my vision/goals, which is to bring my data home; but to be clear, downloading your data doesn't mean it has to leave the cloud. You can have your cake and eat it too.

The debate between importing he data and indexing external data is a long, grueling one, but ultimately I cannot be satisfied with not having my data guaranteed to be locally available.

I suppose in the future it's possible we could add the ability to index external data, but this likely wouldn't work well in practice since most data sources lock down real-time access via their API restrictions.
by exabrial | 2025-10-07 21:03:58+00:00
Did I miss the part of the article stating what percentage of all effects this would have? Like if it moves the needle 0.000001% is it worth the effort? Not to play whatabouttism, but the top 8 countries after China (US through Germany) together emit about the same amount of CO2 as China alone. Not saying we shouldn't improve where we can, as the sum of many small efforts helps the whole.
by NewUser76312 | 2025-10-07 21:04:21+00:00
That's just one example that came to mind. I guarantee I could dig for 30 mins and find a mobile manipulator platform from China that kills it on hardware-to-price ratio that is either 'open enough' or could be made so.

As someone who's dabbled in this before, I guess I'd rather just sit down and plan a BOM and do it myself if that's your markup anyways. Not that it's totally unreasonable for people who just want something super simple out of the box that works.

My general commentary is just that it's sad how much basic servos and what not cost in North America. We've completely ceded this industry to Asia.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-07 21:05:05+00:00
Evolution is brute force by any other name. Nothing elegant about it. Nonetheless, here you are.

Poor sample efficiency of the current AIs is a well known issue - but you should keep in mind what kind of grisly process was required to give you the architecture that makes you as sample efficient as you are.

We don't know yet what kind of architectural quirks enable this sample efficiency in the human brain. It could be something like a non-random initialization process that confers the right inductive biases, a more efficient optimizer, recurrent background loops... or just more raw juice.

It might be that one biological neuron is worth 10000 LLM weights, and a big part of how the brain is so sample efficient is that it's hilariously overparametrized.
by olokobayusuf | 2025-10-07 21:05:37+00:00
This is super interesting! I'm the founder of Muna (https://docs.muna.ai) with much of the same underlying philosophy, but a different approach:

We're building a general purpose compiler for Python. Once compiled, developers can deploy across Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Web (wasm), and Windows in as little as two lines of code.

Congrats on the launch!
by pclmulqdq | 2025-10-07 21:06:24+00:00
> If you're doing cheap IoT trinkets, you're never going to pay extra for a brand.

Except for the Arduino brand. Arduino boards have margins that traditional hardware vendors can only dream of achieving. The only thing carrying that profit margin is the Arduino brand. The software stack is not tied to their hardware, but they make tons of money on hardware.
by mianos | 2025-10-07 21:06:31+00:00
I sure hope this is better than pathetically useless. I assume it is to replace the extremely frustrating Gemini for Android. If I have a bluetooth headset and I try "play music on Spotify" it fails about half the time. Even with youtube music. I could not believe it was so bad so I just sat at my desk with the helmet on and tried it over and over. It seems to recognise the speech but simply fails to do anything. Brand new Pixel 10. The old speech recognition system was way dumber but it actually worked.
by shakna | 2025-10-07 21:06:46+00:00
There's no debate Babbage was behind the Difference Engine.

However, Lovelace's article on the Analytical Engine did not just expand it by demonstrating a programming language. It included physical differences to Babbage's - and this is because she didn't just sit and watch, she assisted on the design of the machine itself.

> Again, it might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine. Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-07 21:06:47+00:00
This makes some sense if Vance was a minor, fringe figure. But he was on a ticket voted for by ~50% of US voters. This is effectively saying that the goal is to have a social media site where half the country is not welcome.

The problem with that is two-fold. One, it neuters any political impact - you're effectively driving away the very voters you need to convince. And two, it creates an echo chamber that distorts reality because everywhere you look people are agreeing with you. Then 2028 rolls around and you're shocked that "the bad guys" won again.
by dlivingston | 2025-10-07 21:07:19+00:00
Speech is not violence, guilt by association is undemocratic, and this hypothesis of de-platforming as a tactic to limit uncouth ideas was thoroughly tested over the last ~15 years and demonstrably shown to be false: Trump, Alex Jones, and many others were banned across platforms. One of these people now sits in the White House, in part because of backlash to the deplatforming of him and others with similar politics.
by btown | 2025-10-07 21:08:06+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... says otherwise; while Android variants have allowed other manufacturers to gain footholds, and some even are "de-Google-fied" in terms of services... all of them stem from a codebase that has been designed to be compatible with, if not explicitly promote, Google's revenue streams.

Imagine, if you will, an adblocker that could run across not just web pages but all apps, in a privacy-protecting and declarative way. Google has every incentive to simply slow-walk the OS-level support necessary for this kind of system, perhaps citing legitimate security concerns, but certainly not allocating resources towards solving the problem in earnest. And if you hard-fork Android to do this kind of deep work, rather than just maintaining packages or patchsets, you'll be forced to dedicate tremendous resources towards maintaining that fork to keep up with mainline fixes/APIs. (And that's just the tip of the iceberg.)

So it's an incredibly effective chilling effect in practice, quite intentionally so.
by quantumcotton | 2025-10-07 21:08:18+00:00
Most of this isn't stocks lol. When somebody says they're investing 100 million in Nvidia. That's them saying I'm buying 100 million in services. Such as using the cloud compute or server. Etc.

They don't just buy a stock and say hey. We invest in you. Lol why is it illegal. If you need to buy video cards right now for your business and you're doing machine learning. If you could go to one person with an unlimited budget, who do you go to, nvidia... Why? Is that because of insider training or is that because of logic? So if Nvidia says. Open AI. We really could use a lot of your API. We are spending an absolute fortune. You need our gpus. How about we make something work? Now negotiating begins.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-07 21:08:21+00:00
> 1oz coins.

Amateurs:

* https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2025/lunar-year-of-the-hor...

* https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2025/heart-diamond-pure-go...

More 'pedestrian' items are available as well:

* https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/categories/gold
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-07 21:08:25+00:00
Lawful interception requires things like paperwork, warrants, probably cause, and some kind of reason why you need to tap cellular comms in the first place. If you're operating a deportation agency in the style of roaming gangs of officers, you're probably not going to want to wait for the courts to dismiss your brute-force attempts to find illegals behind every door you break down.

The anti-2G security measure is pretty much exclusive to a few high-end phones as far as I can tell. iPhones can enable it with lockdown mode (which also disables things like JIT and can make websites and app run slower), Google has added a toggle, and I think a few other manufacturers have it too, but you need support in the modem firmware to actually do anything with it.

Even then, 3G and 4G can also leak identifiers if you can fake being a base station. The identifiers are not as easy to obtain as on 2G, but there's a reason 5G added a masking feature to LTE. Especially combined with access to an SS7 capable line, you can pretty much replicate all of the 2G hacks with cellular tech at least up to 4G, maybe even newer than that.

Cellular firmware protection mechanisms seem to be targeting 2G exploitation so far. It'd be extremely unpractical (and probably impossible) to enforce some kind of "5G NR only" mode, but without such a mode you're going to be at risk of Stingray-like devices.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-07 21:08:46+00:00
>It's either right or wrong for ICE to run a dragnet through a city, cuffing everyone, checking their papers, as they hope to find someone undocumented.

What does the fact that ICE is doing it to catch illegal matter? Because as far as I'm concerned ICE has no bearing on this. It's wrong no matter who does it or what their goals are.

Being an illegal is barely a crime. Whoops, you overstayed your visa, big fucking deal. If we are going to take issue with this sort of enforcement behavior used on such minor infractions then we need to do so on principal, because not giving a shit when it was used on drug dealers and terrorists and tax evaders and everything else that's "bad" is how we fucking got here.
by scrps | 2025-10-07 21:08:47+00:00
The tinfoil hat treatment is due to the fact that these days everything that fits the mould of a conspiracy theory is dismissed simply for fitting the mould of a conspiracy theory. In the same time as this cultural headspace was being cultivated in the US:

A billionaire pedophile ran a covert sex ring with a suspected who's who of a client list who was almost barely prosecuted for "reasons™"

Social media companies caught red-handed psychologically manipulating users for various ends

Damn near everyone helping to destroy actual free speech and privacy willingly because they've been talked into it (ironic)

Governments that engage in mass surveillance so egregious if you had tried it 40 years ago there would have been an uprising. Aided by the tech community I might add.

Industries that abuse data and algorithms to manipulate pricing or commit outright fraud.

A pharma corp addicting countless americans to opioids with almost no real consequence, killing hundreds of thousands and ruining millions of families.

Several industries have poisoned the planet and its inhabitants in various long term ways for profit.

And yet if you suggest something is a conspiracy it is dismissed as the ravings of a lunatic. Speaking of conspiracies that doesn't sound like an accident... The trick to conspiracy theories is critical thinking and not uncritical dismissal.

If I have any words of consolation: when the "conspiracy theory" turns out to be more practice than theory you get to say I told you so.

Edit: typo
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-07 21:09:05+00:00
Yes. That's one way. It works fine if a person knows enough to find that board on AliExpress and buy it and is able to gather the resources to get themselves started with it. (I, myself, typically use cheap no-name dev boards...but I've been around the block a few times.)

Another other way is a ~$100 Arduino starter kit. It includes a printed instruction book and enough useful parts to sit down and begin doing stuff immediately. Anyone with a sufficiently-large pocketbook can buy it for themselves (or for someone else).

One of these things is like buying individual Lego bricks, or maybe lumber and fasteners from the hardware store, with a specific goal in mind. It's creative by necessity, and for those who know how to get where they're going then it's really quite lovely to have marketplaces like AliExpress and Ace Hardware available to satisfy our whims.

The other is more like a buying a packaged Lego kit or Meccano or an erector set that includes instructions for building several different things using the included parts. If a person (including a child) doesn't yet have any idea how to get started, then this can help them get the clues they need to go further with building other things.

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I could buy a Chinese D1 mini dev board and a bag of assorted resistors, LEDs, transistors, and a breadboard and put it all in a nice box and give it to a kid, but I expect that they'll have a hard time figuring out what comes next. ["Now just draw the rest of the owl."]

Or, I could buy an packaged Arduino starter kit for a kid and have a reasonable expectation that they'll soon be telling me all about the neat -- if simple -- stuff they've done with it. They might not even realize the things they've learned along the way, but it'll stick with them well-enough if they want it to. And then they can move on to using VS Code with PlatformIO and start hammering out RP2040 PIO assembler when that time comes. If that's something they choose to be interested in, then they'll have a good foundation for the independent projects that may come later.

The whole is sometimes greater than the sum of its parts.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-07 21:09:08+00:00
If we’re taking about hypothetical effects on hypothetical generations of life that can never be reversed, anything you can worry about probably meets that threshold and so picking any given thing is arbitrary. Gaza and the Ukraine conflicts are the results of choices made by the generation before, which are in turn the result of choices made by the generation before that, which in turn are… and so on. Consider Gaza on its own. You could probably trace a pretty clear line from this conflict back to decisions made in the earliest records we have of Judaism. How many generations and people has that impacted? How many of these chemicals you’re specifically worried about are the consequences of actions taken in this and the prior conflicts? The total global impact of the decision of one Jewish sect to crucify the leader of another sect is probably conceivably larger than anything PFAS have done or even will do for quite a long while considering we’re still dealing with the consequences of that decision even now.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 21:09:14+00:00
There are some absolutely atrocious UIs out there for many office workers, who spend hours clicking buttons opening popup after popup clicking repetitively on checkboxes etc. E.g. entering travel costs or somesuch in academia and elsewhere. You have no idea how annoying that type of work is, you pull out your hair. Why don't they make better UIs, you ask? If you ask, you have no idea how bad things are. Because they don't care, there is no communication, it seems fine, the software creators are hard to reach, the software is approved by people who never used it and decide based on gut feel, powerpoints and feature tickmarks. Even big name brands are horrible at this, like SAP.

If such AI tools allow to automate this soulcrushing drudgery, it will be great. I know that you can technically script things Selenium, AutoHotkey whatnot. But you can imagine that it's a nonstarter in a regular office. This kind of tool could make things like that much more efficient. And it's not like it will then obviate the jobs entirely (at least not right away). These offices often have immense backlogs and are understaffed as is.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-07 21:09:16+00:00
> What if a server gets rebooted

You push the image again.

> What about a broken build. All your servers are on it, or only one?

The ones you pushed the image are on the new image, the ones you didn't push the image are on the old image.

> How do you revert (push an older tarball)

Yes, exactly, you push the older version.

The command pushes a version into the servers. It does exactly what that says. There's nothing complicated to invent about it.

All the interpreted frameworks use the same semantics, because it works extremely well. It tends to work much better than container orchestration, that's for sure.

> A lot more manual processes.

It's only manual if it's not automated... exactly like creating a container, by the way.
by NewUser76312 | 2025-10-07 21:09:32+00:00
> I would say the problem is that most manufacturers, including chinese, sell you platforms that are not reliable enough for AI manipulation, and there's a race to the bottom for it, to which we try not to participate

Pretty lofty claims though, really think you're so above everyone on quality at this price point? I know what dynamixels are capable of, and I see the jitter in the demo videos.

Why aren't the manipulator specs easily accessible on the website? Have you run a real repeatability test? Payload even?

It's a neat high-fidelity garage build platform, but I don't see any reason to assume this price premium is due to hardware quality.
by mhamann | 2025-10-07 21:09:47+00:00
Oh! Muna looks cool as well! I've just barely glanced at your docs page so far, but I'm definitely going to explore further. One of the biggest issues in the back of our minds is getting models running on a variety of hardware and platforms. Right now, we're just using Ollama with support for Lemonade coming soon. But both of these will likely require some manual setup before deploying LlamaFarm.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 21:10:07+00:00
> Maybe they've learned something from history and they're not doing the AfD a service before they grab onto more power?

The lesson from history is to keep the autocrats from grabbing power. Trying to contrain them with laws ex ante hasn't worked since like Cicero. I'm not sure Berlin opposing Chat Control fits into their domestic anti-authoritarian arc.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-07 21:10:49+00:00
I'm still quite happy with my 2007 Sienna. Just clocked over 256k miles - 80k of which we have put on it. I replaced the alternator and starter, otherwise it's been a champ! Then again, I have zero context for the warranty items that were dealt with before we took ownership.

Maybe this is just survivorship bias of the used car market. When you see a vehicle with 180k miles that still runs great and looks to have been well taken care of, you're not seeing the dozens of others that were completely abused or neglected or let warranty items slip. There is a certain amount of filtering that has already gone on for a vehicle with that many miles on it that helps you avoid the real lemons or models with serious design flaws.

I sort of took the opposite route of most people. I got access to software developer money fairly early so was buying new (but practical) vehicles. I wasted so much money on new cars and still had to deal with warranty stuff and minor inconveniences and a shitty owner who doesn't take care of their vehicles. As I got older I've started buying the cheapest functional vehicle I could find that still had good maintenance history and zero accidents. I have had excellent results now that I'm doing the basics of care and maintenance. Part of me still wants the new toys. I'd love to have HUD speed limit and current speed projected for example. Vented and cooled seats would be amazing! I think the Ionic 5 N is the most tempted I've been by a new vehicle in a long time. But I haven't had a car note in over a decade and my insurance is dirt cheap on these very reliable but older vehicles.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-07 21:10:51+00:00
So you are doing steroids (not TRT)? You may look and feel 20 years younger, it's probably a different story for the most important muscle in your body (the heart). If you're benching 405 (holy shit, btw), at 200lbs, that tells me you may be gaslighting yourself about your ability to solo this. The medical system is really not great to navigate, and it's getting worse over time, but you really have to be honest with yourself if you're cycling test.

Side note: I got a colonoscopy without anesthesia in the US. It's kinda funny you bring that up, because this was recent and they treated me like an alien for not wanting the drugs. But they allowed me to do it and it was fine.