MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by redwall_hp | 2025-10-28 19:56:21+00:00
They're musicians' tools. Playing live music is absolutely destructive to your hearing, and ear protection is required. IEMs are a combination of protective equipment (many are designed the same way as concert earplugs) and earphone, so you can hear a clear signal from the mixing board at a safe volume, while shutting out the house speakers' insane noise levels.

Before IEMs were common, the norm was (hopefully) ear plugs and having monitoring speakers pointed at the musicians from the floor.

IEMs can be made in the concert earplug style, which is usually a center pair with 3-4 layers of rubber domes like typical earbuds. Or you can pay more and have custom molds made of your ears, so ones can be made to perfectly fit.

"Monitor" also has certain implications in audio. Usually something designed for monitoring will have a flat frequency response, while most consumer gear has aggressive EQ curves that do things like boosting bass. (Most people will think monitors "sound bad," while the lack of sound tampering is essential for performance and mixing.)
by floppyd | 2025-10-28 19:56:23+00:00
"adb install" is such a far cry from a normal install that it's laughable to call it an alternative or jumping though hoops "within reason". I imagine it won't allow to update an app without another adb install, for one thing. And controlling adb is even easier for google, so how long till you can "adb install" only from within Android Development Studio and only if you have a verified account? Because otherwise all the spooky skammers would be installing stuff on people's phones willy-nilly!
by tim333 | 2025-10-28 19:56:30+00:00
'Coup Against Reality Itself' seems a bit of an over reaction to Musk's attempt to do a slightly less woke version of Wikipedia. If you try reading it, it's not terrible. It waffles on a bit in the usual LLM fashion.

There's some HN discussion of it here which got flagged for some reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726459
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-28 19:56:32+00:00
Yes, I think quibbling over the origin of the term and attempts to coin an alternative are a useless distraction. The term emerged organically for good reasons, and doesn't have any negative connotations as far as I'm concerned. Trying to talk about "direct loading" instead is confusing and doesn't even make sense because alternative app stores like F-Droid don't count as "direct loading" under their own definition.

I think defining sideloading as "the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved" is a good definition, because "not vendor-approved" is precisely the part I care about. The owner being able to install stuff without Google or anyone else's approval is a good and important capability for every computing device to have.

In any case, I fully agree with the substantive portions of this article. What Google is doing here is a terrible attack on consumer freedom.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-28 19:56:33+00:00
You know, this would be a fantastic time for Google to get their sandbox in order. If we need to do it like this, go ahead and create a secondary user, call it sandbox and let me install all my wild and unapproved apps there. SecureNet can automatically fail in Sandbox.

But I don't think they're going to do that, ultimately users who actually care about this are an absolute tiny percentage of the market.

And weirdos like us can always just import a Chinese phone that doesn't have mandatory Google verification crap.
by saghm | 2025-10-28 19:56:42+00:00
Without making a claim about whether it's what most people actually want or not, there's not much that an individual can do about this by changing their voting preference. The US doesn't have proportional representation, and the overwhelming majority of elections are "first past the post" rather than one of the more "modern" alternatives like ranked choice votes, so in practice very few elections ever swing to anyone outside of the two major political parties (neither of which have a particularly large contingent of politicians who have come out in favor of something like single-payer healthcare). Even for a purely single-issue voter who only cares about this, from a game theoretic perspective you're likely to be essentially throwing your vote away if you vote for someone outside of those two major parties because it's unlikely enough others will.

Presidential elections are even worse because they're determined by electoral college vote rather than popular vote. Even ignoring the potential for "faithless electors", all but two states allocate the entirety of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the majority of their vote, which means that if you live in a state with a majority who reliably vote for a specific party's candidate every four years, your vote for president is effectively meaningless.

The only obvious way to fix these issues with how elections work would be to elect people who make different decisions about how to run them, which is hard to do because of the issues themselves. The system is self-reinforcing in a way that makes it extremely difficult for the average person to do anything about it, and any desire to do so gets weighed against the concerns about the policies that you might actually get to influence by voting for one of the two candidates who might actually win. At the end of the day, people who are concerned with the fundamental systemic flaws in things like elections and healthcare still likely end up picking pragmatism over principle (with the expected value of a vote for a candidate who is almost guaranteed not to win being lower than one who is might be less desirable than a third-party one but still has an actually realistic chance of winning and is preferable to the other major party candidate) or just check out of the system entirely (with people not bothering to vote at all already being a fairly common phenomenon in the US).
by marcprux | 2025-10-28 19:56:47+00:00
Author here. I admit I am rather startled by the tone of many comments here and the accusations of disingenuity. Splitting hairs about the origin of the term "sideload" does not change the fact that those who promote the term tend to do so in order to make it feel deviant and hacker-ish. You don't "sideload" software on your Linux, Windows, or macOS computer: you install it.

You have the right to install whatever you want on your computer, regardless of whether that computer is on your desk or in your pocket. That's a hill I'll die on. I'm dismayed to see that this sentiment is not more widespread in this of all communities.
by nawgz | 2025-10-28 19:56:56+00:00
> I feel like the introduction of React Compiler was a pretty big change, too?

React 19 required almost no code changes in my multiple production apps so unless I missed something, I would say the API surface was virtually unchanged by it

> The article seems to make the bloat self-evident by comparing the load times of identical apps and finding React magnitudes slower.

What are you talking about? Next.js != React, that's your own fault if you bought into their marketing. TanStack / React looks to be a slightly larger bundle size but I'm seeing FCP differences from 35ms to 43ms (React being 43ms), how is that orders of magnitude slower?

Bad faith or bad reading, I can't help you either way here

> asking engineers to tell me about useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, and memo and how they're used

What are you even trying to say? Are you implying that other web frameworks don't come with any state management, or that they are reactive, or that you don't need the concepts from React in them?

"People got confused sometimes" isn't really a defense when the alternative is a framework you only ever use on solo greenfield projects that you've never talked to another engineer about their core concepts.

Seriously, you are just peddling groupthink, there isn't a single legit criticism of React.

Next.js, on the flip side, we should all go off on those clowns, but I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole so I don't see how it's even relevant.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-28 19:57:09+00:00
> If you're discussing something online, and someone drops a Grok link as evidence or reference material, how are you supposed to continue at that point?

First, when arguing on the Internet, I'm often reminded of the "Someone wrong on the Internet" comic:

* https://xkcd.com/386/

Second, I think it worth remembering that you'll have better (online) mental health if you don't try to have the last word. At some point it's best to drop it. This has been true for a long time: Usenet newsreaders used to have killfiles so you could filter out certain people.

Also worth keeping in mind the 'human DoS' aspect of things:

> Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[1] which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-28 19:57:24+00:00
Such a smart feature would most likely include reading labels, which means that the system would also know some of the medicines you consume. The fridge would most likely also record the user's interactions with the fridge, so the system will also know what your prescription amounts are. The possibilities of abuse are endless.

Another one: "you have consumed 20 units of alcohol this week, and run out. Should I order this 25 pack that is cheaper?"
by seg_lol | 2025-10-28 19:57:40+00:00
Why this over serialization free formats like CapnProto and Flatbuffers? If you want it to be compact, send it through zstd (with a custom dictionary).

I do really like that is broad support out of the box and looks easy to use.

For Python I still prefer using dill since it handles code objects.

https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill
by gmuslera | 2025-10-28 19:57:42+00:00
The part of the video showing the robot putting glasses in the upper cabinet. It is something normal for humans, but it felt scary watching it being done by that robot. Maybe it was how it was handling the glass, maybe another kind of uncanny valley, or how I think present software should handle that task today. But I don't think it is ready yet to match our expectations.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-28 19:58:07+00:00
A large amount of Fast Ram would have been even more useful, but if you are cost optimizing the BOM, just a tiny sliver of it (it being Fast RAM) would have been effectively a "manual cache" managed by the developer and would have been incredibly useful for anything computation intense, like flight simulators, spreadsheets, anything not involving just blitting graphics really.
by comboy | 2025-10-28 19:58:12+00:00
At this point they start to demand it, whether that's setting up the product or registration needed for warranty protection. But you obviously can still cut them off on router.

Soon though they won't ask, LTE-M / NB-IoT, both chips and plans are becoming very cheap and unless you are living in a faraday cage it will take control away from the user completely.
by nlawalker | 2025-10-28 19:58:17+00:00
Totally agree - interesting info but nothing of practical use, especially because white spots can be mold.

See https://www.eatortoss.com/how-to-tell-if-white-stuff-on-chee..., https://www.eatortoss.com/aged-cheddar-with-a-crusty-white-s....
by tstrimple | 2025-10-28 19:58:19+00:00
I'm sure you never heard "if your friend jumps off a bridge would you?" question growing up. But it seemed to be very common saying in my family and in others at the time. So it seems like kids were making bad decisions based off of peer pressure well before social media. It's only that it goes "viral" that anyone pays attention at all. Just more ammunition for the "kids these days" type of people I guess.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-28 19:58:20+00:00
> something I only know from movies. It's such a strange idea that access to education would be something you either need to be able to afford or need to get a 'scholarship' for (another strange concept).

Like most things learned from movies, you're not getting the full picture. Most US universities charge on a sliding scale based on family earnings. For larger universities, tuition can actually be free depending on parental earnings. At the extreme end, some Ivy League universities like Harvard have $0 tuition for families earning less than $200K/year.

We also have community colleges and state-run universities with subsidized in-state tuition. It's still more expensive than free, but the tuition is in the range where as long as you're smart with your degree selection the ROI of getting the degree will more than make up for any loans you have to take on. That said, you can get yourself into trouble if you take out loans to study for a degree that doesn't translate to a job.
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-28 19:58:21+00:00
If you stare at a wall all day because you have nothing to do, are you addicted to staring at the wall, or do you just have nothing to do?

If someone stops drinking for a long enough period, with no urge to return to drinking, then yes, they aren't an alcoholic. You just made up a silly 12 hour window so you could beat a straw man to death.
by stmw | 2025-10-28 19:58:26+00:00
Regarding design tradeoffs: I am very skeptical that this can be made to work for the long run in a cross-language way without formalizing the on-the-wire contract via IDL or similar.

In my experience, while starting from a language to arrive at the serialization often feels more ergonomic (e.g. RPC style) in the start, it hides too much of what's going on from the users and over time suffers greatly from programming language / runtime changes - the latter multiplied by the number of languages or frameworks supported.
by fwip | 2025-10-28 19:58:28+00:00
I definitely don't know enough to say either way. On the one hand, general contract law seems to say that the terms of a contract can be pretty much anything as long as it's not ambiguous or grossly unfair. On the other, some real lawyers even have doubts about the enforceability of some widely used software licenses. So I could see it going either way.
by jmpman | 2025-10-28 19:58:52+00:00
When my first house was under construction in 2001, I created my own key from the builder’s key. When I finally moved in, my key would then disable the builder’s key. Curious how this work, I disassembled my lock and found that there were (iirc) 8 keys which would open all my neighbors houses, even after they had moved in and had disabled the builder’s key. Of course I rekeyed my house to prevent that vulnerability, but in theory it remains on all my neighbors. I also didn’t disclose the vulnerability.
by bnjms | 2025-10-28 19:58:52+00:00
You argue here that google is technically correct because they’re correctly using sideload.

But that isn’t the point people are angry about. The point is that sideload was a misnomer. Correctly Android users were able to install packages and now cannot. This is anti consumer and breaks the social contract.

Anyway this is so disingenuous that I think it’s astroturf. Here’s the meme we should’ve spreading: Chrome and Android should be broken off from Google. Apple should be forced to allow sideloading, at a minimum, same as any other computer. Phones and tablets should be valid targets for custom OS.
by spcebar | 2025-10-28 19:59:13+00:00
I believe they are saying that this update will remove the ability to decide if you want to install it and will require developers to register and pay for their applications to be installable at all. It's been several years since I developed for Mac, but they operated a similar way, secretly marking a file as quarantined and saying "XYZ Is Damaged and Can’t Be Opened. You Should Move It To The Trash" if you didn't pay to play. Maybe this has since changed, or maybe I'm just a dummy. Regardless, whether a platform has any business funneling a user into their walled garden is another philosophical argument altogether.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-28 19:59:39+00:00
> The vast majority of humans can be taught to drive

the key is being able to drive and learn another language and learn to play an instrument and do math and, finally, group pictures of their different pets together. AGI would be able to do all those things as well... even teach itself to do those things given access to the Internet. Until that happens then no AGI.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-28 19:59:42+00:00
Amazingly happy to hear you were able to drive the process! FWIW, surgical centers usually have to do the exact same thing for their patients (typical role: coordinator), and they do it the same way you did (plus knowing a few counterparties because they work together regularly).

The lack of data standardization in health insurance is atrocious. (In the US, CMS/Congress pushing what it can, but at a glacial pace)

The strongest argument for single payer is that a diverse marketplace has demonstrated a fundamental inability to interoperate.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-28 19:59:54+00:00
The entire argument was that it is dumb to think that a few yokels playing militia or even an “armed civilian nation” with guns can take on the modern US military.

You haven’t seen videos of local police taking on protestors during the civil rights movement with impunity? Do you think the current administration would have any problem doing the same in all of the cities he’s invaded with the National Guard and that his supporters - 40% of the country - wouldn’t just shrug like they did when he pardoned 1500+ domestic terrorist who look and think like them?

I’m limiting it to national politicians who won the nomination to represent their party in Congress because no one cares what someone’s crazy uncle who calls themselves a Democrat thinks.

You brought up “Communism”? What ideas are you now calling “socialist”?

And everyone loves “socialism” as long as it benefits them - see almost every red state that gets more in federal tax dollars than they pay, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA (as long as they don’t call it “ObamaCare”), give a few “socialist” ideas that national Democrats want to implement that you are afraid of?

And “open borders” is another boogeyman talking point. Check how many illegal immigrants were deported by Obama vs Trump for instance or even Biden.

https://tracreports.org/reports/759/
by torginus | 2025-10-28 20:00:06+00:00
Food delivery reduces competition and increases price - now, instead of having a corner pizza shop, you have a couple massive chains supplying wide geographical areas - the food is not as fresh, the prices are higher due to the delivery markup and extra labor of bringing the food to you, so you likely end up paying more for a worse product, and said money will go to big corporations instead of a local small business
by nonfamous | 2025-10-28 20:00:10+00:00
One thing that's hard to understand from the outside is that almost nobody actually pays those mind-blowing $200K hospital bills. US hospitals charge on a sliding scale based on the applicants' families' ability to pay.

(I don’t mean to belittle your comment about universities which is factual and helpful. I’m just pointing out that US education system is just as fucked up as the US healthcare system the OP is talking about.)
by burkaman | 2025-10-28 20:00:12+00:00
They do disclose them when they are relevant to a story. For example, https://www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-5564684/macarthur-overd... and https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/15/nx-s1.... They also mention them very frequently on air, anybody who has listened to NPR for more than like ten minutes probably heard them mention the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

You can see a full list of donors in their latest annual report: https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/2024%20A...
by chopsuei3 | 2025-10-28 20:00:31+00:00
Make sure you also pay attention to the distance rating of the SFP. I had a very similar experience with modules not working at the right speed sometimes. Turned out I was running 50 meters of cable over a 30 meter SFP. Got the correct one, and as low wattage rating as possible and it's been rock solid ever since.
by dboreham | 2025-10-28 20:00:34+00:00
This is a common bill stuffing scam.

After having this same thing happen a few times I now ask at the beginning of the appointment to confirm that it's a wellness visit. Then I ask the provider to tell me if I inadvertently ask a question that will turn it into not a wellness visit. Then I ask at the end to confirm it will be billed with the wellness visit billing code.
by throwforfeds | 2025-10-28 20:00:35+00:00
> Though why do you Americans put up with all this? I have heard the US is a democracy. So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want?

It's because our politicians are largely owned by our corporations and spend a ridiculous amount of money protecting their interests [1]. We almost had a public option with the original "Obamacare", but it was forced out of the bill [2].

Also, just turn on Fox News for an evening and realize it's been the number one news channel in the US for 20-something years. They've been a right wing corporate propaganda machine for a long time, all while brilliantly portraying themselves as the "underdog" fighting the mainstream media. Americans aren't very educated and take pride in their ignorance, unfortunately. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE
by birriel | 2025-10-28 20:00:50+00:00
Although these particular units are designed for home use, commercial applications are not far off, perhaps in the order of months.

Small and medium-sized businesses will start thinking that it's much better to lease a unit for $500/mo. than $2,000/mo. in payroll for one human. Then they own the unit after 3 years. We're going to need some form of UBI soon.
by troupo | 2025-10-28 20:00:51+00:00
> Seems like your quote was very misleading to me, so no your point doesn't stand

My quote: Cluster: for public benefit, cutting edge research in biotech, medical, robotics.

Literal quote from your link: The Apply AI Strategy aims to harness AI's transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture.

You: your quote was misleading.

I'm sorry, I don't have the time or the patience with willfully ignorant and blind people getting their interpretations from AI slop engagement farmers.

Adieu
by JoelMcCracken | 2025-10-28 20:00:57+00:00
Yes, “wrong” was a bit of a strong word, but do note that I intentionally framed it as an opinion and not as, like, objectively wrong.

UI is still important, but I do not think it really defines a language.

Let’s say I created a new Haskell compiler, and it had the best error messages in the world, a hiccup-free LSP experience, maybe an alternative syntax format that’s more familiar to mainstream devs. But it still has all the same semantics. Is that still Haskell? Why or why not?

Now let’s say I took whatever has the best tooling currently, idk what it would be, maybe TypeScript, but gave it say non-strict semantics. Is that still typescript?