MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gxs | 2025-10-14 17:29:55+00:00
If I were a billionaire, one of my many pet projects would basically be a 100% privately-funded-by-me organization that does nothing but test consumer products - either directly or by third party

It would be so boring - no funding accepted, everything would be freely available, no political initiatives, no recommendations, nothing. Just a treasure trove of data

A man can dream - kudos to you for actually making it a reality - great inspiration

Question for you: in general, how much does this stuff cost? what if you wanted to expand to testing beyond plastic, e.g., verifying the potency of ingredients in supplements, verifying cleaning product ingredients, etc., is that possible?
by ux266478 | 2025-10-14 17:29:57+00:00
It's not just that. Remember that in space distance doesn't attenuate electromagnetic radiation. Given perfect line of sight, you could broadcast a 1mW 5GHz signal across the empty space between galaxies and have perfect reception (provided you're very patient)

One also has to consider that at this scale, you cannot have a normal interaction with the EMF and be dim. The normal physical processes of matter at the scale of 1 million suns ends up being quite loud. Black holes that aren't actively eating things form an exception, but black holes aren't normally dark either. Whatever this is it's peculiar, but I wouldn't write-off that it might be an issue with the model they developed for interpreting the data.
by SilasX | 2025-10-14 17:30:37+00:00
Right, for the OpenAI case to be analogous, they would have to switch to a system where your chats are homomorphically encrypted -- i.e. OpenAI does all its operations without knowing either the input or output plaintext. In that case, they'd only have encrypted chats to begin with, and would have to somehow get your key to comply with a warrant for the plaintext.

And note: the above scenario is not likely anywhere in the near future, because homomorphic encryption has something like a million times overhead, and requires you to hit the entire database on every request, when state-of-the-art LLM systems are already pushing the limits of computation.
by exabrial | 2025-10-14 17:31:20+00:00
With my current knowledge of the case, I'd say Apple was clearly in the moral wrong and it's a pretty dark mark in their past.

My understanding is the suspect was detained and law enforcement was not asking for a dragnet (at least thats what they stated publicly), and they were asking for a tool for a specific phone. Apple stated the FBI was asking them to backdoor in all iPhones, then the FBI countered and said thats not what they were asking for. Apple then marched triumphantly into the moral sunset over the innocent victims'; meanwhile the FBI then send funds to a dubious group with questionable ethics and ties to authoritarian regimes.

In my opinion, Apple should have expediently helped here, if for no other reason than to prevent the funding of groups that support dragnets, but also out of moral obligation to the victims.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-14 17:31:25+00:00
I agree, of course. Choose an architecture for the pragmatic reality, not some fantastical non-reality.

However, I appreciate the craft. Some of these unnecessary optimizations (rather, “introduced complexities”) are vestigial accoutrements that come alongside generally good software design. Not all, but some. So I tolerate a fair amount of fanciness in myself and others when it coincides with solid intent and healthy output.

That said, we should absolutely not tolerate the presence of appurtenances of complexity at the architectural layer – that is a place reserved for pure 100% pragmatism.
by seec | 2025-10-14 17:31:28+00:00
Exactly. Apple has always been inherently duplicitous and knows how to manage image/communicate very well. Marketing is actually one of their best products.

With all the control they have on the App Store (and they have showed they are perfectly fine using it when it suits them) arguing about privacy is pure virtue signaling when they allow Facebook and Google just fine. And most of their core services/apps could actually work mostly fine in a web browser so it's not like there would absolutely no way to use them. They could very much have strict requirement on data tracking and basically forbid any app doing it and that would actually make the "managed App Store" pretty good. But they don't, because they would lose a shit ton of money in various ways.

But Apple wants the cake and eats it too. They can't pretend to have principle and just throw them away when it hurts their profit. That's no standard at all but that's how it is. Apple makes pretty good technology but is completely full of shit and I would argue much more than the other usual suspects and that makes them the worse guy actually.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-14 17:32:15+00:00
It is, with this crowd, where data is currency. I literally have solitaire games, trying to get me to create server accounts, so that the authors can extract PiD from me.

Tech is full of people that make extremely good money, from other people's personal information, and they plug their ears and sing "La-la-laaaa-I-can't-hear-yooouuu-la-la-la", when confronted with information that says what they are doing has problems. Not just techhies. That's fairly basic human nature.

This is pretty much the embodiment of Upton Sinclair's quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

For my part, I don't collect any data that I don't need; even if it makes it more difficult to do stuff like administer a server.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-10-14 17:32:45+00:00
An eye opener for me was when a friend of my was dying of cancer there was a period where he got sepsis, ultimately because of the effects of chemotherapy not directly because of the cancer. But had he passed from sepsis (he survived that incident), the cause of death would ultimately be attributed to cancer and not chemotherapy.

I looked into it deeper at the time and it's very difficult to untangle the true cause of death in many of these situations. While certainly these treatments are ultimately beneficial statistically, it is concerning that there's not as much discussion around their harm and the real risk rewards behind various treatments. I know from my own (non-cancer) experience that there is a very strong bias towards treatment even in cases where, once you break down all the risk and rewards, there is a strong argument for non-intervention.
by ghostfoxgod | 2025-10-14 17:32:46+00:00
So we do provide a free forever plan, with free plan there are usage limits plus some advance features are not there, but all the core security features are fully available on all plans (I strongly feel security is not a good to have but a must have feature)

With that being said, with the paid plans unlock higher limits, advance features (all mentioned on the pricing page).

Let me know if you have any specific questions, also feel free to DM me on my socials or via emails (all available on the contact page).
by tracker1 | 2025-10-14 17:33:18+00:00
Web rendering has a rich ecosystem of tooling around a vast level of support for styling, layout, localization and accessibility support. By extension, it's one of the largest baselines in terms of knowledge, support and talent with at least some experience with.

This, of course, comes at a cost of performance as CSS alone is very complicated and has a lot there to support. On the flip side, there are many things that are easy to do with HTML+CSS that are much more difficult with native UI frameworks. Just the reflow support for multiple sizes/scaling in browsers is hard to match.
by lysace | 2025-10-14 17:33:31+00:00
Valuation models probably begin to break down when the potential payoff is control of our solar system as we know it.

OTOH it seems like mere single billions can buy control over the US if you're brazen enough, so perhaps these stock market suckers are overpaying with their trillions.

I wonder how expensive it would be to buy control of PRC in a similarly creative (but very different) way.
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-10-14 17:34:19+00:00
I call BS on that given how many people ONLY read the headline. It is (well, should be) the responsibility of the journalism industry, of which the editors are still a part of, to accurately convey information, and that includes in the part of most heavily shared and read.

(and yah, yada yada about journalism no longer, or maybe never, being about truth, I get it, but still IMO the field should be held to the higher journalistic standard)
by daninus14 | 2025-10-14 17:34:31+00:00
Hm. Not quite right. Regular shareholders don't like dividends. It means you have an immediate tax liability so you are paying taxes twice. The company paid taxes, and now you have to pay taxes. Then that money has to be invested elsewhere eventually incurring another tax event.

It's much better to have the company buy shares back. That way the stock price goes up. You then only face the tax event once you sell the stock later in the future. So you just avoided a tax event.

The reason for dividends is that pension funds and the like do like dividends for whatever reasons.

Individual investors and people who have a long term approach like Warren Buffet are against dividends.
by GolfPopper | 2025-10-14 17:34:41+00:00
Even if LLMs don't become AGI (and I don't think they will), LLMs are potentially superb disinformation generators able to operate at massive scale. Modern society was already having difficulty holding onto consensus reality. "AI" may be able to break it.

Don't think "smart human". Think about a few trillion scam artists who cannot be distinguished from a real person except by face to face conversation.

Your every avenue of modern communication and information being innundate by note-perfect 419 scams, forever.
by b112 | 2025-10-14 17:35:35+00:00
We certainly need to hold people accountable for their actions, and their words. Yet at the same time, Elon seems to have no filter. I don't suspect him of plotting anything sneaky, because if he was, he'd just imbibe something, and go on about it one night on X.

I get more worried about all the CEOs that say effectively nothing. That seem to have PR team coaching them on everything they say. It's the quiet, plotting ones we should be exceptionally concerned about.

Because we have no idea what they're really thinking.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-14 17:35:53+00:00
> What is stopping people from doing this?

Most Linux apps do not bundle their dependencies, don't provide binary downloads, and aren't portable (they use absolute paths). Some dependencies are especially awkward like glibc and Python.

It is improving with programs written in Rust and Go which tend to a) be statically linked, and b) are more modern so they are less likely to make the mistake of using absolute paths.

Incidentally this is also the reason Nix has to install everything globally in a single root-owned directory.

> The main barrier as far as I can see is that users do not like it.

I don't think so. They've never been given the option.
by 0x457 | 2025-10-14 17:36:24+00:00
> you can learn a lot by running k8s cluster at home.

That is my argument, you're not learning much if your cluster 2-3 machines and a few RPis.

> Stop bitching and maybe have a real argument instead of shitting on homelabbers

Why so rude? I have a homelab myself, it's just for running things and not LARPing as sysadmin.
by ncruces | 2025-10-14 17:36:30+00:00
I've been trying to get a headstart on the lightweight read replicas for my Go SQLite driver and, yes, there are issues.

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/#lightweight-read-re...

But the concept is really cool, and it's workable. I already have a version that mostly works.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/litestream/litest...

With Litestream v0.5.0 doing the replication, you'll get some transient read failures that really shouldn't happen.

If you build Litestream from head (or wait for v0.5.1), that'll be fixed. You'll still have similar issues around the time of a snapshot, if you keep only one snapshot.

Other than that, I'm pretty confident it just works. But the performance probably sucks. I need to add a layer of caching. But that's it.
by notatallshaw | 2025-10-14 17:36:51+00:00
> I wouldn't mind a codebase where numpy objects created by dependency B can't be shared directly with dependency A without me first running some kind of conversion function on them

Given there's no compiler to enforce this check, and Python is dynamic language, I don't see how you implement that without some complicated object provenance feature, making every single object larger and every use of that object (calling with it, calling it, assigning it to an attribute, assigning an attribute to it) impose an expensive runtime check.

But maybe I'm missing something obvious.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-14 17:36:51+00:00
Sure, but there's also the fact that millions of Teslas have been sold over the last 10 years, and their liability insurance isn't any higher than other cars.

If the statistics were seeing more collision risk, more injury risk attributable to the vehicle itself rather than the driver, then surely the actuaries would be able to suss that out.

https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/auto-insurance/insurance...

For 2021-2023, Luxury Cars, Large, Tesla Model S has lower than average personal injury, medical payment, and bodily injury losses.

For 2021-2023, Luxury Cars, Midsize, Tesla Model 3 is lower than average on personal injury and bodily payment, but slightly higher on the non 4WD model for bodily injury.

For 2021-2023, Luxury SUV, Midsize, Tesla Model Y has lower than average personal injury, medical payment, and bodily injury losses.

For 2021-2023, Luxury SUV, Large, Tesla Model X has lower than average personal injury, medical payment, and bodily injury losses

They all have lower than average property damage losses too.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-14 17:36:57+00:00
Maybe I wasn’t being clear enough. I know that all those terms have definitions. But in my opinion superdeterminism is not really falsifiable, and in fact very much more problematic than nonlocality as it actually appears in QM contexts.

In the most plain terms, the author is claiming that the collapse of the wave function can be explained deterministically if you just accept that it was preordained.
by theglocksaint | 2025-10-14 17:37:03+00:00
Proton therapy offers incremental, if any advantage, over standard IMRT for non-pediatric cases. In the case of the prostate, recent evidence shows no benefit at all. It suffers from near hyperbolic marketing from debt-ridden therapy centers pushing dubious claims that are now being exposed by high quality phase III comparison trials.

HIFU for prostate also is a ripe area for grifters as it is advertised and marketed towards low risk cases that would probably benefit from active surveillance.
by koito17 | 2025-10-14 17:37:10+00:00
In 2015, a single server with 40 cores and 128 GB of RAM was able to handle 2 million WebSocket connections running an Elixir program[0].

One of my hot takes is that a gaming PC has fast enough hardware to serve thousands of clients with a static Rust binary and SQLite. Pair with Litestream, and you have easy-to-test, continuous backups. It's nice being able to test backups by just running `litestream restore` and then running a single binary on my development machine. Addtionally, when the backend is a single static binary, you gain the opportunity to test the entire system in CI without maintaining an ad-hoc cloud environment or heirarchy of mock services.

The points of contention, for me personally, would be managing deployments and observability.

Of course, at my workplace, I wouldn't dare to suggest this kind of architecture, but as others have mentioned, a single machine can go a long way, and I doubt most my projects will ever need to scale beyond 40 cores and 128 GB of RAM.

[0] https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/659430661942550528
by deadbabe | 2025-10-14 17:38:10+00:00
Unfortunately software engineering suffers from the opposite problem of many other engineering disciplines.

Any idiot could build a bridge by just overbuilding everything, an engineer helps you build the minimum viable bridge.

In software, it’s the opposite. Idiots can easily roll out products and services with crude and basic code. You only need true engineers for the high volume high performance stuff. And if that’s not what you’re doing – you don’t need engineers. The logical conclusion is then to fire them.
by tptacek | 2025-10-14 17:38:29+00:00
The "abuse of the right to protest" has nothing to do with violence from protesters, which is a detail that you've conjured up yourself. As I've said, I'm intimately aware of the details of what's happening at the Broadview site, in part because I do local politics and live right here.

I don't expect you to concede this point --- this is a message board, after all. But I have firsthand knowledge of what you're talking about as well as familiarity with your sources and am continuing to comment to make a record of the inaccuracy of your claim.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-14 17:38:29+00:00
> The election of Lincoln was kind of the nail in the coffin for slavery because it meant that the anti slavery interests would at least be able to do something that ended slavery if not immediately then at some point in the future via the votes from the new free states being incorporated from the territories.

I mean, in an alternate universe where the modern cloture rule existed and somehow at least one extra free state was admitted while the South was not paying attention to block it, sure, that’s almost plausible, but...
by q3k | 2025-10-14 17:38:38+00:00
Should be easy to compare - sand down both the cheapo and a legit one (with a similar datecode) with fine sandpaper, clean with isoprop and shove under an optical microscope - you can then tell how similar/dissimilar the dies are, you don't even have to look for markings or anything super legible, or even sand them to the same metal layer.

Clones tend to be vastly different - different technology node, architecture, die size, etc. - that's because they are generally functional clones, not mask clones.

(also, as a general shoutout to the low tech sandpaper technique for exploratory work, here's a sanded down RP2350 thrown under a clapped out SEM: https://object.ceph-eu.hswaw.net/q3k-personal/484e7b33dbdbd9... https://object.ceph-eu.hswaw.net/q3k-personal/3290eef9b6b9ad... )
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-14 17:39:07+00:00
Well what destroys the company is not the generation of a certificate, but the publication. I think the state would compel the company not disclose it, so they would coerce the company into not destroying itself.

Do you thing Google or Apple are going to care? They bowed down to China, I think the state they have their headquarters in has even more leverage. As for Mozilla Firefox on Linux, maybe, but I wouldn't trust this too much either.

> I think they have more targeted ways that risk less detection and less collateral damage.

I think they don't really need to care about this, it was quite clear that no other state is publicly doing anything against this.
by kenhwang | 2025-10-14 17:39:20+00:00
You can only make the argument that the Civic is "2% lighter" when it is being compared to a wagon; apples to oranges comparison that invalidates the whole comparison.

They picked that specific year Accord because it's the same size as a sedan as that specific year Civic sedan, so it makes no sense to then compare the weight to the much larger Accord wagon variant. You might as well compare the sedan to a crossover to argue that the sedan didn't get heavier.

The range is 1% heavier to 7% heavier comparing the sedan to the sedan. Both ends of the range are heavier, so "did get heavier" is an accurate statement.
by gorpy7 | 2025-10-14 17:39:45+00:00
Tesla’s current products are similar to older failed products from other manufacturers. Tesla’s future products are similar to older failed products from other manufacturers. Tesla’s current products are largely profitable. Just exactly why are we bashing on attempts to bring products to market? I will say i view the “lies” as woefully aspirational but not malicious in intent. and i do think the lines can blur. but i’d rather have cool new things and a few fools fooled benevolently than, for instance, no true EV market.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-14 17:41:59+00:00
Users/TPS aren't the right metric in the first place. I have a webhook glue side project that I didn't even realize had ~8k daily users/~300tps until I set up Cloudflare analytics. As a go program doing trivial work, the load is dwarfed by the cpu/memory usage of all my seedbox related software (which has 1 user, not even every day).
by KirillKaliagin | 2025-10-14 17:42:00+00:00
I caught myself doing the classic tilt and FOMO after the last “whole market was a scam” day, and it gave me an idea: an AI agent for ludo tendencies in trading. It is a personal journal plus simple practices for people like me (lol).

Product Landing: https://ai-trading-discipline.replit.app/

I pulled together a quick pain map from trader posts and hacked a landing to get feedback.

What do you think about the product idea itself? Would you try it for a week and, if it helped, consider paying for it?

Please roast the idea. Is this cringe, or does it have a real audience?

If you have a minute, I’d love blunt feedback:

In 5 seconds, does the hero make sense?

Is the CTA “Get rid of tilt” helpful or try-hard?

Which guardrail would actually stop you on a bad day: DDL cap, max-trade cap, enforced cooldowns, or a pre-trade checklist?

What is missing to trust it enough for a 7-day test?

Do not judge the layout or styling. I put the page together in a couple of hours to package the idea and ask for feedback.

No signals. Not financial advice. I'm interested in feedback that will help me become rich =)
by bdamm | 2025-10-14 17:42:06+00:00
Maxwell Technologies; 2019. [1]

Dalhousie/Jeff Dahn dry-synthesis lab [2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/tesla-to-buy-batt...

[2] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-backed-battery-rese...
by simion314 | 2025-10-14 17:42:13+00:00
>Can you point at anything in his message that's not factually correct?

He also got involved in Romanian and Moldovan elections, by sending a message to target users in the day of the elections( when doing campaign is illegal) with claims he presented no evidence for, basically the bastard works for Ruzzia, he might be forced to but the facts do not lie.
by izzydata | 2025-10-14 17:42:32+00:00
I'm sure I could personally operate any vehicle in a safe enough manner to not be very concerned about it, but it seems people trust Tesla self driving capabilities far beyond their limits which results in Tesla having some of the highest fatalities of any car brand. But I don't think Tesla is entirely faultless here , but considering how they advertise their cars as being entirely self driving and calling it auto pilot they are at least partially to blame.

But besides self driving I don't agree with the softwareization of cars. Maybe if Tesla made cars in a more traditional way, but they were EVs I would consider them a real option. The single giant screen without any tactile buttons feels cheap and I'm sure is just about cost saving. The whole cybertruck teardown makes it look like the vehicle wasn't well thought out.

Basically everything about Tesla as a company from its actual cars to its CEO which is supposedly leading it does not inspire confidence. When there are so many other well established car companies that take it far more seriously I don't even take Tesla seriously enough as an option to care about their crash test results.