MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-07 20:51:54+00:00
> To be clear, I recognize that some kind of general mechanism is useful, I’m just not sure why files and byte streams are considered especially great.

It's one of the local maxima for generality. You could make everything an object or something, but it would require a lot of ecosystem work and eventually get you into a very similar place.

> Because the flip side of your example is that you now have a plain text protocol, and if you wanted to do anything else besides cat’ing it to the console, you’re now writing a parser.

Slight nuance: You could have everything-is-a-file without everything-is-text. Unix usually does both, and I think both are good, but eg. /dev/video0 is a file but not text. That said, text is also a nice local maxima, and the one that requires the least work to buy in to. Contrast, say, powershell, which does better... as long as your programs are integrated into that environment.
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-07 20:52:06+00:00
Most of what a DAW does are not edits, they are operations applied to a stream; they only create new files when you do actual edits. They do make it clear when a new file is created. In my experience when ever you start trying to use a DAW like an editor you either end up creating lots of files or start creating more work for yourself than it would be in a proper editor with all of its shortcuts and conveniences aimed at editing. Admittedly, it has been awhile since I have used a DAW for anything but simple recording and mixing, so it is quite possible I am out of date on how they deal with this stuff.
by chimeracoder | 2025-10-07 20:52:07+00:00
> Do you mean "misandry?"

No, OP is being transphobic and referring to trans women as men:

> Note that the "banning controversy" is that they're not banning enough people for having entirely mainstream political opinions, and mostly targets journalists. Or let's be more specific: mostly targets people who don't think that men can identify into being victims of misogyny.
by nullpt_rs | 2025-10-07 20:52:19+00:00
Someone mentioned this as well in another comment. Turns out most of this could’ve been done as an extension after all :-)

edit: actually, wouldn’t you still need to override the global you’d like to instrument? At that point, the toString of the modified function would leak your hook.

see: https://gist.github.com/voidstar0/179990efe918d1028b72f292cf...

Regardless, I do have some interesting ideas that should hopefully make my pain of compiling Chromium for 3 hours worth it though :p

Cheat Engine for site scripts? Who knows. Mostly just using this as an opportunity to learn some browser internals so id say it still paid off :)
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-10-07 20:52:20+00:00
If by native AVR, you mean avr-libc, it's nothing at all like Arduino.

Instead of analogRead, you need to write your own busy loop watching certain bits in a register (or ISR), you need to twiddle bits in several registers to set up the ADC the way you want it, etc.

Serial.write? Nope, gotta read the docs, twiddle some bits again, and then you actually do get to use printf.

Those two right there are big hurdles to someone new to microcontrollers. In fact, they're a hurdle to me and I've read AVR datasheets for fun.
by bokohut | 2025-10-07 20:52:34+00:00
Fifteen years ago now in Dec 2010 I made a post on my now defunct blog about ALPR and I updated it for a few years. My experiences with LE along side my technical skillset had me 'finding' things. I wont post the entire blog entry text since it is too long for this format but I did include some relevant entries to the point of how long this has really been occurring. Links are very old so YMMV.

=========

Dec 1 2010 Automated License Plate Readers - ALPR So tonight someone we will call the "suspect" robbed a liquor store with a shotgun and the Delaware State Police were in action with ALPR technology. It was stated by a witness that the "suspect" was seen getting into a late 90's model civic or small hatchback so thus the ALPR call. At the same time troopers were going door to door in the area checking on the well fair of residence in the area. Aside from a helicopter, K9 tracking, and what was at least 15 law enforcement officers from various local jurisdictions setup in a layered perimeter around the area the suspect evaded. I have included a mp3 segment of the Automatic License Plate Recognition vehicle convo and a swf clip showing a trooper setup at an exterior perimeter point.

UPDATE: 08/07/2011 Finally the word is out as they only had it for years. Link with video http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110807/NEWS02/108070...

UPDATE2: 12/02/2011 National general news on ALPR http://www.privacylives.com/washington-post-eyes-turn-to-lic...

UPDATE3: 12/08/2011 Have enough bank? - then you can even buy it http://www.avigilon.com/products/licenseplaterecognition/

UPDATE4: 07/31/2012 Getting some more press http://www.aclu.org/automatic-license-plate-readers-threat-a... Are they watching you? http://www.aclu.org/maps/automatic-license-plate-readers-are...

UPDATE5: 07/16/2012 Tracking you illegally? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594179/aclu-warns-of-m...

UPDATE6: 04/07/2015 Gone and done it - Even with all the Ed Snowden press now they are going national with ALPR. https://cdt.org/blog/government-keeps-its-eyes-on-the-road-w...
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-07 20:52:52+00:00
>He's also buying his own tools

cheaper than a degree

>breaking his back and knuckles, and exposed to carcinogens (used motor oil, grease, etc).

They work indoors and don't exactly work in an environment where things get burnt or aerosolized. It's no office job but it's not exactly ditch digging.
by DominikPeters | 2025-10-07 20:53:02+00:00
Given that the warming impacts of contrails are short-lived (roughly a day), I think it is a good idea to do research now on the weather forecasting needed to avoid producing contrails. But I don't really see a reason to actually start avoiding them now, with the associated costs in terms of fuel, CO2 emissions, and time. We can start avoiding them in a few decades when it might have become urgent to have cooling.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-07 20:53:12+00:00
Plus, the invisibility of a thing does not stop the conspiracy loons from building conspiracies around it. 5G RF is invisible, yet still being used by the government to control our brains. For chemtrails, the conspiracy is just going to turn into: "They're spraying invisible chemicals all over us to turn us into communists." There's no end to it.
by justusthane | 2025-10-07 20:53:27+00:00
I’m not an expert in this field, but I don’t think I agree. The problem with a browser monopoly is that the monopolist does not have to obey specs — you can just do whatever you want, and force the specs to follow you.

If you fork that monopolist’s engine, you’re not making any immediate difference to the market. You’ll adopt all their existing behavior, whether or whether not it conforms to spec (and I would guess you would continue to pull in many of their changes down the road).

A brand new implementation is much more difficult, but if it works it’s much more meaningful in preventing a monopoly.
by jschveibinz | 2025-10-07 20:53:27+00:00
I have masters degree in teaching. I think that the most equitable form of education and grading is in mastery with pass/fail: this is where students must learn a topic or concept to pass a quiz before moving on to the next topic. This is complicated, and impractical for large classes--there are too many students to try to help move along and finish the required material. So that's why it isn't often used--because administrators pack 30+ kids into a classroom. But if there were 15-20 kids, it's hard to beat mastery education. Everyone gets a real shot at passing, the kids who struggle get more attention, and the education goals are met. If you are interested, look up "Winnetka System" for an explanation and example.
by fsflover | 2025-10-07 20:53:30+00:00
> Purism runs ancient hardware

https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

> charges way too much

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355

> questionable business ethics

They retrospectively changed their return policy in order to not get bankrupt. AFAIK everything is find now. I'm a happy owner of Librem 5 btw.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 20:53:32+00:00
Those metals are not like Mo additive on greases. The machines that contained those came with warnings long before Prop 65 or EU RoHS simply by toxicity. And deploying PVs is to scale that out into the fields. It's mildly insane thing to do.

Even nukes are more eco friendly, even if you include things Fukushima, maybe Chernobyl too. The elephant foot is going to passivate itself before the collapse of human civilization could occur. I don't know same can be said about panels blown away in rainstorms.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-07 20:53:47+00:00
> On both networks, it makes it virtually impossible for minorities (like black Americans) to speak to each other without a flood of freaks rolling in to interrupt. Interrupting conversations is the real anti-social behavior. The point is supposed to enable and encourage conversation.

Despite all its flaws, reddit got this mostly right. Having explicit sub-communities allows groups of people to keep to themselves if they want to and ban anyone who's not welcome.
by kelp6063 | 2025-10-07 20:54:11+00:00
Unless the AI industry can figure out how to be profitable soon (to which basically nobody has a clear path to profitability besides maybe ad revenue) it's hard to see this not blowing up in a year or two. The bills for all of this are going to come due eventually and the AI CEOs can only convince investors to keep letting them burn billions for so long.
by ogou | 2025-10-07 20:54:49+00:00
This is not a general problem with moderation there, centralized or decentralized. This particular issue is specific to a large group of people that don't like Jesse Singal and have been trying to get him removed from Bluesky. It hasn't worked and that group is trying all kinds of way to reframe the narrative to get leverage. All the padding this post adds around that is neotechnical jargon slop.
by kace91 | 2025-10-07 20:55:17+00:00
The first part is obvious I think (they don't want to make registration in google's store a requirement for f-droid since that defeats half the purpose of f-droid).

The other half is suggesting they could offer uploading the apps put into f-droid to the store (under an f-droid account I'd guess) but they immediately discard that option since it would make f-droid the exclusive distributor, taking something from the dev.
by M95D | 2025-10-07 20:55:39+00:00
> The article states otherwise and proposes some potential strategies.

The article has very low scientific value. It doesn't say anything new,which is why I provided a better article on the subject, easier to understand for most readers of this page.

> Many of the macromolecules found in a cell can be generated abiotically.

So? The result is the same and it doesn't make the cell any different than one with edited DNA. Sure, you can replace some codons with more stable equivalents (more G/C), leave out some introns, and even add a watermark, but the information encoded is the same, the function is the same, the protein is the same, the metabolic pathway is the same, etc. If looks like a duck, moves like a duck, then ...

Why go through all the trouble to get basically the same result? Contrary to their claims, it won't really help understanding how the cell works. Not adding a gene to a custom genome vs. cutting out a gene from an existing genome leads to the same understanding of that gene's function.
by legitster | 2025-10-07 20:55:48+00:00
During the height of the industrial revolution, humans were able to double steel production roughly every 6 years. We've doubled global lithium production in the last 3!

Even so, if you do the math about how much lithium we need to get to a few dozen kg per person given that rate of growth, we're still looking at 20-30 years. (There are also a lot of elemental and labor bottlenecks).

So you're right that it's not astronomical! We just might have speedier expectations for when it's achievable.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 20:56:00+00:00
I would guess they want to keep it - there are a lot of company advanced engineering projects run on Arduino and when those prove useful (most don't) the company starts looking for how to make it production. Thus having Arduino as a push to their chips is a useful in to more companies.

Of course companies change directions all the time. I wouldn't surprise me if the people who bought Arduino believe the above vision, but there are other political factions that will try to kill it.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-07 20:56:24+00:00
> But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler. “I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warnings or unwanted Linux advice.”

Cat pictures need a trigger warning? Wonder what the triggering effect is there?

I can see Linux advice though: kill, mount, etc.
by jklinger410 | 2025-10-07 20:56:34+00:00
Why do you think we have fully self driving cars instead of just more simplistic beacon systems? Why doesn't McDonald's have a fully automated kitchen?

New technology is slow due to risk aversion, it's very rare for people to just tear up what they already have to re-implement new technology from the ground up. We always have to shoe-horn new technology into old systems to prove it first.

There are just so many factors that get solved by working with what already exists.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-07 20:56:36+00:00
Great article!

The idea of this involvement of the BBB is not new. Just this morning I was reading about the use of lipoic acid supplements to help repair the BBB after feeding mice high saturated fat diets.

Here is more about the involvement of the BBB in AD

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=blood+brain+barrier+al...
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-07 20:57:51+00:00
While I can't read OP's mind, there is a problem with bad actors abusing pro-trans policies to benefit themselves. One of the most outrageous examples is the literal Nazi[1] who started identifying as female after being sentenced. Some gatekeeping is required here.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r4zrg35vlo
by lwcassid | 2025-10-07 20:57:59+00:00
Cofounder here with a few more details

The updated Flux can now plan and execute multi-step PCB design workflows: things like researching parts, wiring schematics, placing and routing components, and checking its own work — all inside a browser-based eCAD that's fully editable.

It’s still very much at the intern stage: capable, but it needs clear direction and human oversight to get good results. Think of it like Devin, Cursor, or Replit — but for PCB design.

There’s a 2-week free trial if you want to try it. We have a Slack community we're jamming in for feedback - just let me know if you'd like to join!

More details: https://www.flux.ai/p/blog/the-first-ai-hardware-engineering...
by pyrale | 2025-10-07 20:58:10+00:00
I am not blaming you as an agent in this system, trying to optimize your bill. You probably made the right choice for yourself.

What I'm saying is that the consequence of your action will be to rise the price electricity for those without a balcony (that includes industrial users), which is a very bad systemic outcome. This outcome should have been avoided by system-wide policymaking, not by a selfless act from you.

> that's something the big utilities are stalling

V2G is an extremely complex thing to set up in reality, you don't need a conspiracy to explain why it's not around the corner. Just like you don't need to involve big oil to explain why fusion power is likely not happening tomorrow.
by NPC82 | 2025-10-07 20:58:21+00:00
I am confused by this line from this article (which seems ABC-specific):

>The reality is, it's the Democrats who are voting no to reopening the government as they try to reverse cuts to health care made by Republicans.

1) Republicans control both house and Senate, so why is this an issue with Democrats voting with their views?

2) Healthcare funding is the least controversial thing to shut down the government for. This very article cites sick call-outs as a large contributing factor for the lack of tower personnel to begin with.

This article seems off to me.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-07 20:58:59+00:00
That's been my experience, too. I signed up with an account so I could follow some people, and my default timeline has been full of some pretty extreme stuff.

For example, there were a shocking number of posts against the proposed digital ID system because it's being advocated for by "Larry Ellison, a Jew". That's a verbatim quote, BTW. Uh, excuse me? There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike Larry Ellison, but his supposedly being Jewish is 100% not one of them. But there it was, up front and proud: oppose this thing because Jews are pushing for it!

That was one example of a great many loathsome things I saw there, and before anyone asks, no, I didn't see any leftwing equivalent content. Not saying it's not on there, just that it was not on my default timeline.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 20:59:14+00:00
Go look up US and Norway in the density list[1] before trying to use those countries as the mean average reference standard developed countries. Sort by density and scroll to the top and to bottom. Doing so also explains why EV drivers from basically nowhere else but from those countries appreciate the "full tank every morning" concept.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
by a_shovel | 2025-10-07 20:59:17+00:00
All social media moderation is "banning people for saying stuff people don't like". Most people don't like e.g. spam, or death threats, or racism, so social media offer communication platforms where those kinds of speech are restricted, with varying degrees of effort and success. The goal of banning Vance would be to have a social media site that moderates against the kinds of things Vance says.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 20:59:21+00:00
Thank you! Not sure I can package everything because of license requirements. IANAL. I think the container image basically automates the various dependencies, but I didn't create it and I don't use it so I'm not 100% sure.

Basically, I would love to know how to do this correctly for each platform, but I don't know how. Help would be welcomed.
by Arathorn | 2025-10-07 20:59:26+00:00
Mjolnir is designed to apply decentralised public blocklists - i.e. you pick which banlists to apply; there are a bunch published by different people (matrix.org, the matrix 'community moderation effort', etc). Admittedly moderators do share lists (so that if #archlinux bans you, others might pick up the ban), but there's no intrinsic centralisation.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/msc2313/propos... is how it works fwiw.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-07 20:59:35+00:00
> But Rails is supposed to be a giant

All the tools on the article are about client-side rendering and operations.

It's ok if Rails decided to have opinions on client-side rendering and operations now, but it's far from expected. And it would alienate some users.

Instead, the article's conclusion is the correct one. You don't need to mess with complex client-side and ops tools if you don't want to. You can build many things perfectly well without them.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-07 20:59:35+00:00
A Spanish bank has calculated that the solar and wind built there between 2019 and 2024 reduced wholesale electricity prices by 40% compared with if they'd stuck at 2019 levels.

They project a further 50% drop by 2030:

https://www.bde.es/wbe/en/publicaciones/analisis-economico-i...
by codethief | 2025-10-07 20:59:36+00:00
This looks really cool and like something I've been subconsciously looking for!

A couple thoughts & ideas:

- Given the sensitivity of the data, I would be rather scared to self-host this, unless it's a machine at home, behind a Wireguard/Tailscale setup. I would love to see this as an E2E-encrypted application, similarly to Ente.io.

- Could index and storage backend be decoupled, so that I can host my photos etc. elsewhere and, in particular, prevent data duplication? (For instance, if you already self-host Immich or Ente.io and you also set up backups, it'd be a waste to have Timelinize store a separate copy of the photos IMO.) I know, this is not entirely trivial to achieve but for viewing & interacting with different types of data there are already tons of specialized applications out there. Timelinized can't possibly replace all of them.

- Support for importing Polarsteps trips, and for importing Signal backups (e.g. via https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools ) would be nice!
by isodev | 2025-10-07 20:59:53+00:00
The technology powering Bluesky is “inspired by” but never interoperable with existing standards or similar reference architectures. This is one’s first queue that the direction is not being open.

And beyond the technical details, how can a corporation commit to transparency and non-bias when their very funding depends on it? Google already provided us with the most popular example of how this is not possible (“don’t be evil” by an ad company).
by tejtm | 2025-10-07 21:00:05+00:00
Every wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum that is not actively being generated, is decaying. At minimum the expanding universe saps frequency.

More directly,radiation (light,photons) is absorbed and re-emmited by matter but the re-emitted energy is always at a lower frequency.

This absorbed & re-emitted longer wavelength radiation is what can become trapped.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-07 21:00:13+00:00
Immigration 'mostly' falls under plenary powers of The Congress and the courts have little to no authority in these matters (similar to how Presidential pardons may not be overturned by the Court or Congress). This legal theory has been changing over time but it still mostly holds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary_power https://cis.org/Report/Plenary-Power-Should-Judges-Control-U...
by BJones12 | 2025-10-07 21:00:21+00:00
> It's maybe the case that books as a whole is a winner-takes-all market.

It seems that any product with effectively capped consumption will become a winner-take-all market. People go to the movie theater 6 times a year, so that's winner-take-all. People read 12 books a year, so that becomes winner-take-all. People go to approximately 1 university, so while an average university has 200 million in endowments, Harvard has 50 billion (250x). Heck, I'm pretty sure the same factor is leading to the rise of megachurches because people are only capable of attending approximately 1 service per week.

I recall the book Blockbusters by Anita Elberse (2013) being one of the first to point this out.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-10-07 21:00:49+00:00
People are making so much of this when it seems so much simpler. Qualcomm likes buying high-margin businesses, and Arduino is a high-margin business. Gross margin on their boards is over 90% (hence why you can buy a Chinese clone of a $30 board for $3) and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. The TI equivalent of the $30 Arduino Uno is $5, and it's a true gateway product.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-07 21:00:54+00:00
Yeah they changed the policy on off-site behavior to specifically allow his posts. For another example he routinely posted screenshots of posts from people that had blocked him. Block evasion is/was against the ToS as applied to most users other than Jesse Singal.

People mix up “users wanting him banned for having abhorrent views” (which is the opinion of some people) with “users wanting him banned for the same stuff they see other people get banned for”. It serves as a kind of cover because even when you point to a concrete example of him violating the rules the moderation team will dismiss your report as being personally motivated. It’s a funny defense, “This guy couldn’t possibly be breaking the rules and be near-universally considered an asshole by the users on this site! It has to be one or the other!”