MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by starwatch | 2025-10-09 08:37:10+00:00
The poor regulation around this is pretty bad for startups. Personally I've taken to only buying rechargeable battery powered devices from big brands. Anything else and I look for a power cord, single-use batteries, or mechanical operation.

It's not an ideal solution and not just because of examples like the Samsung Galaxy Note7. It's because I love rooting for the startups, the disruptors, the innovators. But in the world of battery powered products I'm inclined to think (or hope!) that the bigger players have more to lose by cheaping out on cheap batteries.
by dusted | 2025-10-09 08:38:18+00:00
The article is written in an extremely manipulating way, the following phrase will trigger the intended knee-jerk reaction in anyone reading this who is not already pretty familiar with the actual content of the proposal and its implications.

> "The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM)"

Now that the casual reader has already drawn a conclusion, they're also primed to dismiss the group referenced in the next sentence as as outliers and crazies (probably with hidden motives regarding CSAM):

> — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance.

So yeah, thanks to Joachim for making this. Of course, it won't actually work, these people don't give a damn about the children, they just want total control, and surveillance and there's no lower bounds for what they will argue to achieve it.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-09 08:39:24+00:00
> These sorts of outlooks are notoriously hard to predict

The gut feeling you're about to lose your life savings isn't worth it for a lot of people, when I had most of my money invested it was always in the back of my mind. I cashed out and bought land/started building a multi generational house. All doubts and fear disappeared overnight, I'm for sure losing money compared to going all in on Nvidia or even btc, but I don't need any mental gymnastics to rationalize my choice.
by ben_w | 2025-10-09 08:40:14+00:00
Even smart people belive a lot of untrue things, and his domain of knowledge isn't likely to include much more biology than my GCSE grade C and a handfull of brilliant.org micro-lessons; it's quite possible, though I would not put specific odds on it, that he's seen e.g. the sudden change in the rate of progress in protein folding, where before it was ~ one PhD thesis per protein and then suddenly AlphaFold did all of them, and extrapolated from that to everything else like an over-enthusiastic PopSci reporter.
by cimi_ | 2025-10-09 08:40:50+00:00
Speaking of agents and tests, here's a fun one I had the other day: while refactoring a large code base I told the agent to do something precise to a specific module, refactor with the new change, then ensure the tests are passing.

The test suite is slow and has many moving parts; the tests I asked it to run take ~5 minutes. The thing decided to kill the test run, then it made up another command it said was the 'tests' so when I looked at the agent console in the IDE everything seemed fine collapsed, i.e. 'Tests ran successfully'.

Obviously the code changes also had a subtle bug that I only saw when pushing its refactoring to CI (and more waiting). At least there were tests to catch the problem.
by Doohickey-d | 2025-10-09 08:41:01+00:00
This seems like a cool design!

One question though: it seems like the contact between the PCB side panels and the cells relies on flexing the (FR4?) PCB material of the small per-cell "fingers" that are surrounded by cutouts, on the side panels. I wonder if once it's in this "flexed state", it will eventually fatigue, or settle into the bent state, after some time (years?), and no longer press on the cell ends strongly enough?

A bit like if you were to leave a rubber band in stretched state for a while, it won't fully go back to the diameter it was before.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-09 08:41:20+00:00
> A country that issues its own currency cannot run out of money or be forced into default in that currency. What we call the national debt is the total of money the government has created and not yet taxed back. Those dollars are private savings in another form, not a burden that must one day be repaid.

Richard Murphy is that you?

Snark aside, this is just straight up MMT which you're presenting as gospel, but absolutely isn't.

The very shortest way to debunk MMT is that every single government would be printing their way to prosperity if it was possible. Their ultimate desire is to be in power, and a happy prosperous population will keep electing them. No government has ever follow MMT to it's natural conclusion.

It is simplistic and wrong.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-09 08:41:30+00:00
In JavaScript world the name of the game was always hiring and firing. Application quality, security, performance, accessibility and other things are largely irrelevant until someone gets sued.

What’s interesting is that the result is immature developers. This becomes evident in that although the goal is rapid hiring/firing, which is completely hostile to the developer, the impacted developer is somehow convinced such hostility is their primary vector of empowerment. For example if an employer mandates use of a tool to lower barrier of entry to less qualified candidates those less qualified candidates are likely to believe that tool is there primarily to benefit them. That makes sense if the given candidate is otherwise completely unqualified, but it’s nonetheless shortsighted and narcissistic.

As a result software quality degrades as the quality of people doing the work degrades while business requirements simultaneously increase in complexity/urgency to compensate.
by kmarc | 2025-10-09 08:42:15+00:00
I saw both. One of the top firms wanted that, another I worked at we did report (of course with a scratched minimal reproducible example)

The thing is, it's quite unlikely that your competitor hits the exact same bug. The cost of us having to keep upstream patched, tested isn't justified.

Also in HFT world there are some very similar patterns across competing companies, yet, we just saw TernFS coming out from XTX, with not much fear of competitors benefiting from it more than they do.
Ask HN: Finding a US job as an American expat?
by bosch_mind | 2025-10-09 08:42:48+00:00
Has anyone had success using their American citizenship status as a way to get a US tech job or a company based in the US with an EU presence to get better pay?

I’m an expat in the UK and considering a change. Is it much harder? UK salaries are very low and cost of living is very high, so trying to open my options.
by AllegedAlec | 2025-10-09 08:43:08+00:00
That would be a solution, yes. But currently it feels extremely borked from a UX perspective. It purports to be able to do this, but when you tell it to it breaks in unintuitive ways.

I hate this idea of "well you just need to understand all the arcane ways in which to properly use it to its proper effects".

It's like a car which has a gear shifter, but that's not fully functional yet, so instead you switch gear by spelling out in morse code the gear you want to go into using L as short and R as long. Furthermore, you shouldn't try to listen to 105-112 on the FM band on the radio, because those frequencies are used to control the brakes and ABS and if you listen to those frequencies the brakes no longer work.

We would rightfully stone any engineer who'd design this and then say "well obvious user error" when the user rightfully complains that they crash whenever they listen to Arrow FM.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-09 08:43:41+00:00
Having experienced the Snowpocalypse and mini Snowpocalypse, weeks of 2019 PG&E PSPSes, and the 2000–2001 CALISO-Enron rolling blackouts, it's ridiculous for those in glass houses to throw stones.

Improper deregulation never ends well.
by gampleman | 2025-10-09 08:44:22+00:00
They also have a team of full time react devs they are paying for. That seems to me more than sufficient.

$600,000/year just to run a governance board and organize a conference seems extraordinarily generous to me. In fact I think it's more likely the $3M is more likely to form an endowment for the foundation that will fund it's expenses running forward.
by constantius | 2025-10-09 08:44:24+00:00
Maybe you're in a bubble in terms of knowing how people feel about out-parties, as your descriptions of right-wing parties are too caricatural for you to not be biased. I'm in the same bubble and don't think most people view things that way.

Your point about skewed results is right though: reading through the paper's annex on dataset construction, no distinction is made between out-parties. An analysis based on political spectrum-based clusters of parties would have been more telling, though the current methodology is probably on point for the more echo-chambered people.
by sph | 2025-10-09 08:45:04+00:00
> Facts are reported because they are important.

Without going too much off-topic: In a vacuum, you are right. In reality, facts are reported because they sell.

It is a good day when important facts like this one happen to coincide with what people what to know more about. (the recent UK attempt at stripping the rights of its citizens)

Tomorrow, people will have forgotten all about it, and the government can continue to expand its powers without anyone talking about it.
by xlii | 2025-10-09 08:45:12+00:00
I'm not as fiercy minded as Joachim, but this article is manipulative as hell:

- "spam campaign" - "trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping CSAM" - "a bill _seen by privacy activists_ as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance" (emphasis mine).

The journalism at its worst. I don't think I ever click on anything politico.eu related.
by CJefferson | 2025-10-09 08:45:19+00:00
To me, the least real thing in maths is, ironically, the real numbers.

As you dig through integers, fractions, square roots, solutions to polynomials, things a turing machine can output, you get to increasingly large classes of numbers which are still all countably infinite.

At some point I realised I'd covered anything I could ever imagine caring about and was still in a countable set.
by michaelnovati | 2025-10-09 08:45:20+00:00
I comment a lot about them and I have gotten annoyed every now and then when my tone was not professional, but most of critical comments about Codesmith center on The fact that their website has a giant banner saying from zero to mid-level engineer and I think that that's misleading and setting people up for failure in the software industry regardless of their outcomes or their talent. I'm open to hearing all sides of this, but it's a very reasonable opinion to have and state.

https://www.codesmith.io/is-codesmith-worth-it
by serf | 2025-10-09 08:45:22+00:00
the common argument against it is that it guarantees a technological arms race and by those conditions pushes the smaller groups out of the competition.

it's unfair in the same vein that the rich are always offered better loan rates than the poor. Yeah, it's obvious why that would be, but it's not fair either.

although imo pushing small-backer arbitrage out of the equation is a good thing.
by rob74 | 2025-10-09 08:45:26+00:00
Their current implementation (or prototype?) actually uses a powered airplane instead of a glider, which has its engines on for takeoff and then switches them off during the gliding phase (https://www.aerolane.com/aerocart, "How planes fly with AC0 today"). This way it works of course, but I'm not convinced it would be possible to take off with a glider in tow when the lead plane is already near its MTOW (if you'd have to reduce the loading of the lead plane to be able to accomodate the glider, that would defeat the whole purpose of what you're trying to do)?
by pydry | 2025-10-09 08:45:34+00:00
>He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted.

Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2022 and they said (verbatim) "it will take as long as it takes". Theyve not deviated from that position either, because Clausewitz.

That "3 days to kiev" thing was General Mark Milley's prediction to congress, which was later morphed by western propaganda into "Putin's goal" and is now presumed by the terminally naive to have been the overriding goal.

>Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate

If it were stalemate the body bag exchange ratios would probably be a little lower than 44:1 and the TCC probably wouldnt be kidnapping quite so many men out doing a grocery run.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-09 08:45:58+00:00
Stop what mate? My words are not the words of someone who ocassionally dabbles in the free ChatGPT layer - I've been paying premium tier AI tools for my entire company for a long time now. Recently we had to scale back their usage to just consulting mode, i.e. because the agent mode has gone from somewhat-useful to complete waste of time. We are now back to using them as replacement for the now entshittified search. But as you can see by my early adopting of these crap-tools, I am open-minded. I'd love to see what great new application you have built using them. But if you don't have anything to show, I'll also take some arguments, you know, like the stuff I provided in my first comment.
by bambax | 2025-10-09 08:46:06+00:00
I did buy a Meta Quest 3 and was impressed by its overall quality. I even tried a couple of games, and watched maybe half a movie, and some 3D videos of remote places.

But I never use it. I don't really see the point. It's heavy on the head for no real benefit.

I'm kind of happy I have it though. I open it every six months to see if there's anything new. I'm going to try this Hyperscape just in case...
by kosmozaut | 2025-10-09 08:47:49+00:00
MCP supports authentication via OAuth2, which is what we use here. For the most part, this means that a browser window is opened and the user can sign in with their GitHub or Google account. The access token is verified by us and passed to the upstream MCP server.

We'd love to allow orgs to bring their own IdP but there is some refactoring we still have to do for this.
by williamtrask | 2025-10-09 08:48:09+00:00
Nit: regarding (2), Phil Blunsom did (same Blunsom from the article, and who was leading language modeling at DeepMind for about 7-8 years). He would often opine at Oxford (where he taught) that solving next word prediction is a viable meta path to AGI. Almost nobody agreed at the time. He also called out early that scaling and better data were the key, and they did end up being, although Google wasn’t as “risk on” as OpenAI on gathering the data for GPT-1/2. Had they been history could easily have been different. People forget the position OAI was in at the time. Elon/funding had left, key talent had left. Risk appetite was high for that kind of thing… and it paid off.
by Byamarro | 2025-10-09 08:49:22+00:00
Math is about creating mental models.

Sometimes we want to model something in real life and try to use math for this - this is physics.

But even then, the model is not real, it's a model (not even a 1:1 one on top of that). It usually tries to capture some cherry picked traits of reality i.e. when will a planet be in 60 days ignoring all its "atoms"[1]. That's because we want to have some predictive power and we can't simulate whole reality. Wolfram calls these selective traits that can be calculated without calculating everything else "pockets of reducability". Do they exist? Imho no, planets don't fundamentally exist, they're mental constructs we've created for a group of particles so that our brains won't explode. If planets don't exist, so do their position etc.

The things about models is that they're usually simplifications of the thing they model, with only the parts of it that interest us.

Modeling is so natural for us that we often fail to realize that we're projecting. We're projecting content of our minds onto reality and then we start to ask questions out of confusion such as "does my mind concept exist". Your mind concept is a neutral pattern in your mind, that's it.

[1] atoms are mental concepts as well ofc
by OJFord | 2025-10-09 08:50:37+00:00
Because OpenAI has the hype and delivers the pop, not AMD. An AMD investment in OpenAI would probably have had a similar effect on AMD, not an equivalent one on OpenAI. (Either way it's Ooh AMD is getting seriously into AI, awesome, suddenly it seems worth 100x whatever it was before!)

Replace AMD & OpenAI with some crypto company and Trump, hypothetically the latter doesn't really obviously get any significant benefit from the former's endorsement.
by scandox | 2025-10-09 08:50:47+00:00
A former policeman told me about a case he dealt with in the late 1970s. A man had got up in the morning, had breakfast, got in his car and drove off to work. Halfway to work he had coughed a large amount of blood onto the windscreen of his car, collapsed over the wheel and died - crashing the car in the process.

He interviewed the man's spouse. They had a cocktail party at home the previous night and had been drinking heavily. At a certain point in the evening her husband had knocked back his drink so energetically that he had swallowed the cocktail pick along with the drink. The people talking to him saw what happened and everybody thought this was extremely funny, including her husband.

The pathologist confirmed that the cocktail pick had worked its way through the lining of his oesophagus and had eventually reached his heart.
by ifwinterco | 2025-10-09 08:52:03+00:00
Same issue with LLMs - there probably is real value there, but investors have rammed 10 years' worth of investment into the market in 10 months.

That means: 1) Late investors end up taking a bath because it will actually take 10x longer to get a return than they thought. 2) Investment becomes inefficient - there are lot of GPUs being bought in 2025 that should have been bought in 2030. By the time 2030 comes along, those 2025 GPUs will be outdated, so the value they will provide will be less than if they had been purchased at the correct time
by hermitcrab | 2025-10-09 08:52:37+00:00
I've done a few gliding flights. They were all towed to height by a powered aircraft and then released. Winch launch is an alternative to towing, but sounded like a fairly terrifying alternative where you were yoinked into the air by a huge winch. The terror isn't an issue if the glider is pilotless. But IIRC they used something like a 7 litre engine to winch an incredibly light glider. Presumably it would require something really powerful to launch a cargo glider.
by jama211 | 2025-10-09 08:53:45+00:00
We might just have to accept that it’s software engineering. Not vibe engineering, just engineering. Proper engineering has never shied away from using smart tools, it’s about ownership, accountability, planning, etc etc and you’re still doing all that. If you sign off properly on everything, it’s yours. It’s engineering, that’s it.

Smart tools have existed forever, or we’d all be coding in assembly still. As long as we take ownership of the code and the result that’s it.
Ask HN: How to prepare ones investments for a potential AI bubble burst?
by saubeidl | 2025-10-09 08:54:42+00:00
We've had many discussions about whether AI is a bubble or not - but what do we as individuals actually do with those assumptions?

If one were to assume AI is a giant bubble that might burst any second - what would the best investment strategy be? How would one shift ones portfolio to ideally not only not get burned by it, but maybe even benefit?
by ainiriand | 2025-10-09 08:55:34+00:00
... If you want to have a reliable copy of the database do not rely on the one that sits in the repo, ask Steven for one of the latest backups that he made and that should be in his own cloud drive. Then you can proceed safely to run the migrations, just remember to skip the one labelled as 20259999-9 as this was made for a prod hotfix and is still necessary. Edit your migrations table to skip it. The migrations table will be created when you run 'status'.
by frereubu | 2025-10-09 08:56:09+00:00
I'll be very interested to see the definition of "ultra-processed" in this legislation. I couldn't find one at a first glance - it seems to mandate that someone defines it, but doesn't contain a definition itself from what I could see.

Edit: Found it. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... (thanks to @crummy for the correction). Seems like a reasonable start. Amusing to see that alcoholic drinks are specifically not considered ultra-processed foods for the purposes of school meals!

> In July 2025, the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 32.7 percent of children and youth between 12 and 19 years old are prediabetic.

Wow.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-10-09 08:56:09+00:00
Images is your go-to online tool for quick and efficient image modification. With a user-friendly interface, it allows users to edit, resize, and enhance photos seamlessly without the need for advanced software. Perfect for both beginners and professionals, this platform supports a wide range of formats and offers various features to customize your images effortlessly. Whether you need to adjust colors, add filters, or crop your pictures, Images guarantees a fast, reliable, and accessible editing experience. Transform your visuals today with Images and elevate your digital content with ease.
by rob74 | 2025-10-09 08:56:36+00:00
Unless "affecting the towing aircraft" means "ripping its tail off", in which case you're screwed no matter what height you're at. GA aircraft are probably a bit sturdier, but large cargo aircraft (based on large passenger aircraft) were simply not designed to pull anything, so I imagine you would need to add some kind of (pretty sturdy) reinforcement to the attachment point, which would mean extra costs and reduce the MTOW of the towing aircraft.
by serf | 2025-10-09 08:57:19+00:00
I feel like all of these points beg us to loop around and ask the question : "How does HFT provide social benefit to the world at large?"

the exchanges weren't established for the abstract sake of money, they were established to provide benefit to people.

Does HFT still do this overall, or is it for the benefit of a small in-group of elite? Why is that favorable? Because we nobodies can buy the ETF?
by saubeidl | 2025-10-09 08:57:47+00:00
A lot of our fellow engineering nerds are far-right racists.

Its on clear display on this site as well, ever since the second Trump victory they feel safe to take off their masks.

Unfortunately, it's quite hard to avoid their work entirely - turns out racists write good code sometimes as well. I used to assume they were just stupid, but no, some are quite smart, just bad people.
by schrijver | 2025-10-09 08:58:25+00:00
Mirrors are great, but most bikers don’t have them. And even then it might still be your ears that alert you that there’s a car behind you (electric or not — I still hear them), after which you can keep tabs with your mirror.

I don’t understand why everybody’s so happy to discount ears in this thread. Haven’t they been vital to our survival since forever? Yes eyes are more important in this case, but I’ll take whatever sensory aid I can get on my morning commute..