MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Izkata | 2025-10-08 03:54:50+00:00
It's more complicated than "this cable is good/bad". I had a suspicion about one of my cables for months, but just last week I confirmed it with a device that shows the volts/amps/watts/total kwh passing through it: I have a USB-C cable with orientation. Plugged in one way it transfers about 5x more power than the other way, and in the lower orientation it's low enough for the earbud case I use it with to not charge.
by elboru | 2025-10-08 03:55:44+00:00
I recently spent some time in a country house far enough from civilization that electric lines don’t reach. The owners could have installed some solar panels, but they opted to keep it electricity-free to disconnect from technology, or at least from electronics. They have multiple decades old ingenious utensils that work without electricity, like a fridge that uses propane, oil lamps, non-electric coffee percolator, etc. and that made me wonder, how many analogous devices stopped getting invented because an electric device is the most obvious way of solving things to our current view.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-08 03:55:57+00:00
Intelligence must surely be a cluster of evolved changes, let's say A-Z. Each of those letters must have appeared, and been advantageous on their own (or they wouldn't have persisted).

So why didn't chimps get some of them?

For example, chimps have hands, but do not exhibit anywhere near the dexterity and agility of human hands.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-08 03:57:20+00:00
OS/2 Warp was amazing.

It ran Windows applications natively and crashed less than Win 3.1 — but still had some hardware compatibility issues.

It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in — unlike Windows at the time.

I really wanted to switch to it, but Win95 won…
by aceofspades19 | 2025-10-08 03:58:23+00:00
>The source of the seizures was the gofundme leak by a hacker. Who has since >been arrested, convicted, and is in prison for a separate hacking incident. >Canada gave him immunity to his crimes during freedom protest. They took the >donor list and seized from there.

That's not true, the fundraising platforms raising funds for the convoy had to register with FINTRAC and failing that, the banks can track who is sending money to those platforms for those accounts. It even says so in the article you linked. What's the source that the government used the leak to find the accounts?
by qdotme | 2025-10-08 03:58:30+00:00
What I was actually hoping for.. and so far turned out disappointed, is a half-decent LTE/4/5G module that can be Arduino compatible.

Just like ESP8266 (and later -32) variant opened up the IoT over WiFi, there is a potential industry-wide opportunity space for a decent, low-cost, always-online (just bring SIM) hobby board. Without awful vendor tooling. And ideally without "modem-to-something" bridge (which almost always means AT+ and vendor tooling..)
by tomhow | 2025-10-08 03:58:57+00:00
> wtf are you talking about? those states have Dem majorities because that's what their populations want. moron

Please don't comment like this on HN. The guidelines ask us to be kind and constructive when engaging in discussions here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit:

I didn't even notice until later, the final word of that comment. WTF indeed. This is absolutely not okay on HN, and we have to ban accounts that do it repeatedly.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-08 03:59:17+00:00
Google Skinner Pigeons.

“One bird was conditioned to turn counter-clockwise about the cage, making two or three turns between reinforcements. Another repeatedly thrust its head into one of the upper corners of the cage. A third developed a 'tossing' response, as if placing its head beneath an invisible bar and lifting it repeatedly. Two birds developed a pendulum motion of the head and body, in which the head was extended forward and swung from right to left with a sharp movement followed by a somewhat slower return.”

“The experiment might be said to demonstrate a sort of superstition. The bird behaves as if there were a causal relation between its behavior and the presentation of food, although such a relation is lacking.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
by ip26 | 2025-10-08 03:59:34+00:00
Away from home, I quickly find myself lamenting all the time I spend washing all my dishes, cookware, and laundry. Nothing is ever completely dry, and if you are tent camping you spend 30 minutes striking and 30 minutes pitching every day.

I enjoy the outdoors but it’s also a great reminder of how much I love my dishwashing machine. Repairing it might take a few hours every few years, but it saves far more time on net.
by Alupis | 2025-10-08 03:59:54+00:00
> A decade ago, Intel tried that back in the day with Galileo / Edison, and tellingly, they came up with the same "ideas": IoT / AI.

Intel's execution - as usual - was poor and lacking.

Both the Galileo and Edison were much more expensive than their Arduino counterparts, and their x86 cpu's were of little value within that space (especially at the time). Neither made it past 5 years without being killed - which is exactly what people feared. A stunning lack of long-term commitment from Intel to develop and grow a community, leaving anyone that actually built products based on their devices holding a useless bag.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-08 04:00:20+00:00
The ban on swastikas in Germany is an authoritarian law, it's just one which is popular enough there that there isn't enough support to repeal it despite it being an unambiguous constraint on speech.

Non-consensual violence is prohibited because it directly harms other people. Face coverings don't directly harm anyone and laws that exist only for the government's convenience are authoritarian laws. There are ways to investigate bank robberies even if the robbers are wearing masks and in fact a law against masks is fairly ridiculous because anyone willing to break the law against robbing banks would be willing to break a law against wearing a face covering, so such laws only afflict innocent people.
by viraptor | 2025-10-08 04:01:04+00:00
Not on trigger warnings, but on content warnings on general. It folds the post by default, but shows the warning description so it's useful for lots of reason.

For example "USpol" is often used as common CW but not specifically TW. But it could be "boob", or "giant spider", or "furry", or "food photo", or "super long post" whatever else you think people may react to with "I wish I didn't have to see that while scrolling the timeline". It's really just about making it a nicer place to others. It's common, but it's not like people expect you to put USpol warning on posts from account which deals only with politics.
by cycomachead | 2025-10-08 04:01:24+00:00
Lapis is very cool, but I really struggle with a lack of examples and pre-built solutions for some things.

Leafo's itch.io is built with it and I maintain snap.berkeley.edu. A great tool, but I'm also many times more productive in Rails. (It's an unfair comparison, to be sure!) and Openresty + Lapis is quite performant and low overhead which is great.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 04:02:21+00:00
From what I know this basic tool already exists. In the US, the government can just ask any old company for their data and they have to give it up, just like they would their mail or their physical locations. I'm assuming the rest of the West has similar tools, warrants of some kind.

The problem is nobody uses them to combat crime on the internet. They use them for stupid shit usually or stuff that involves lots and lots of money.

We're jumping the gun here. We already have a fire bomb, and we're not using it, but we're going ahead to developing the nuke. Makes no sense.
by totetsu | 2025-10-08 04:02:30+00:00
for many years I kept Tiny Travel Tracker running on my android phone, and would periodically import it into os&m maps. It was nice to have the record of all exactly all the places I had wandered to, and not also share that with five eyes. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.rareventure.gps2/
by opello | 2025-10-08 04:02:54+00:00
> They are saying those players will see a scenario with two queens of one color on the board every year or two

That makes sense.

It seems to me that you've used a lot of truism reasoning out of frustration. I tried to head these off with my original assumption that it was a question of identity.

>> I anticipate the argument being one of identity, such as "a rook is a rook whether it is right side up or upside down." This is an argument of convention.

Since the reliance is on convention, and an inverted rook is conventionally treated as a promoted queen, the FIDE Arbiters' Manual describes a policy of not following this convention. I'm sure someone knows why this is the guidance. I was curious about that reasoning. It seemed interesting and worthy of discussion.

> You are probably the only person in history from the founding of FIDE until now who has pretended not to know what a rook or a queen is.

You ascribe to pretend ignorance what is in fact interest in the history of a thing. This seems unreasonably antagonistic.

I believe you've misunderstood my original comment and I do not know why, but I think I will be done with this thread. If you find out why this was the adopted guidance for the FIDE Arbiters' Manual I'd enjoy reading about it and I imagine others may too, but it should be put under the original question, not here.
by citbl | 2025-10-08 04:03:49+00:00
The load balancer or nginx etc. is running but 0 bytes are sent as content

< HTTP/2 200 < accept-ranges: bytes < alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000 < content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; img-src 'self' data:; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' < content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 < last-modified: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:02:13 GMT < strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 < vary: Accept-Encoding < content-length: 0
by 9front | 2025-10-08 04:04:55+00:00
Media Access Control (MAC) address is the method to control access to the physical transmission medium. A switch doesn't care about your upper layers (IP, TCP, etc.) but won't find your host without a MAC address. That's why MACs are called hardware address and work on the local link only, from the port on your cool network interface to the other end of the cable or radio signal.
by hopelite | 2025-10-08 04:05:27+00:00
Because it’s just manipulative and abusive, self harming and self destructive narcissistic psychopathic people calling things that thwart their suicidal mindset as “far right”. If you don’t want to LoL yourself, you must be far-right. If you don’t feel safe in your own community because of foreigners that have no right to be there, then you must be a racist.

It’s an odd phenomenon called a mass formation in large populations, when groups of people get fixated or obsessed with a certain concept or even a thing that the group ourself becomes self-reinforcing; usually until a point of exhaustion is reached or self-destruction. It can also be effectively injected into a culture as it was in Germany’s case after the war through endless and limitless collective and hereditary blame abuse to the point that Germans generally do not have self-respect, and if they show even a slight bit of self-respect they are branded far right, as of that means anything being the subconscious conditioning people have been subjected to.

It’s kind of sad and unfortunate and humanity should never have allowed the collective torture, abuse, and punishment of Germans even to this day 80 years later. It’s a sick and depraved thing only the most devious and evil people would condone, let alone perpetrate.
by com2kid | 2025-10-08 04:08:38+00:00
I went to a tier 2 state school, no real research to speak of.

Amazing professors, great students to prof ratio, professors were in their offices all the time and happy to see students. The night before final labs were due profs would be up helping students debug problems.

Only 2 courses I took there even had TAs. Work was typically hand graded by professors as soon as you passed the first intro to course, and quite a few of the intro courses were fully taught by professors as well.

Does my school have any good research coming out of it? Not really. Not the point. It has a bunch of professors who are there because they want to teach, and it has a bunch of students who are getting to benefit from those professors.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-08 04:08:44+00:00
Cetacean communication obeys Zipf's law: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/

As does house finches: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.202...

Sperm whale codas exhibit contextual and combinatorial structure: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8

Ants have developed symbolic language: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10093743/

Everywhere we look close enough, we find life doing smart things.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-08 04:08:49+00:00
IP and routing is actually the interesting question. Somehow we need to get these IP packets to right place. And this opens up question how would it be done with just IP packets? You would at least need some extra protocol over IP as IP itself really does not have idea where the next jump on the route is...

Routing on Internet scale is messy question really. And then moving physical bits over any medium is also somewhat complicated always. So ethernet and MACs works relatively well for helping in both...

Still, it is somewhat nice thought exercise to think how you would do without it.
by trinsic2 | 2025-10-08 04:09:27+00:00
> On Friday, Graber turned more serious in her pushback: “Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their minds,” she wrote, adding later that: “Yet it’s a behavior that persists across social media anyway, with negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Human nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse.”

I think the goal of pushing many of these harassment's forward, is to further have a reason to force these platforms to clamp down on its users to push the agenda of needing to control speech. The people who benefit directly are government insiders that want to wield power over the population.

Its very similar to what I suspect the RIAA did during the file sharing craze. They would post there own content to force these platforms into submission.

IMHO. Decentralization is just another way to centralize control at choke points. The only way to make these systems censor proof is to have them built on distributed networks[0].

Secondly any for profit entity that pushes a platform is going to want control over the platform and as such be diametrically opposed to freedom of expression.

Look at BitTorrent as an example. Its been working for years. yes they can poison nodes, but its clearly much more resistant to these kinds of attacks then our current iteration of social media platforms. Why do we keep buying into platforms that doing give us what we need?

Also I'd be very wary of any overly complicated system designed to make it very difficult to understand the process of connecting to peers. Complication is usually a way to obfuscate the technical process of a system to prevent people from making any meaningful changes to it.

[0]: https://medium.com/distributed-economy/what-is-the-differenc...
by jedberg | 2025-10-08 04:10:14+00:00
The really awesome part about Ethernet hubs was that if you knew what you were doing, you could get everything on the bus delivered to your device. Fun fact, in the 90s, most every college dorm had one hub per building (or if you were at MIT, one huge network for all of them).

Since most everything ran over plain text, you'd be surprised what you could learn when you aggregated all AOL IMs and ICQ messages in one interface...
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-08 04:10:24+00:00
And it's a neat-enough idea for repetitive tasks.

For instance: I do periodic database-level backups of a very closed-source system at work. It doesn't take much of my time, but it's annoying in its simplicity: Run this GUI Windows program, click these things, select this folder, and push the go button. The backup takes as long as it takes, and then I look for obvious signs of either completion or error on the screen sometime later.

With something like this "Computer Use" model, I can automate that process.

It doesn't matter to anyone at all whether it takes 30 seconds or 30 minutes to walk through the steps: It can be done while I'm asleep or on vacation or whatever.

I can keep tabs on it with some combination of manual and automatic review, just like I would be doing if I hired a real human to do this job on my behalf.

(Yeah, yeah. There's tons of other ways to back up and restore computer data. But this is the One, True Way that is recoverable on a blank slate in a fashion that is supported by the manufacturer. I don't get to go off-script and invent a new method here.

But a screen-reading button-clicker? Sure. I can jive with that and keep an eye on it from time to time, just as I would be doing if I hired a person to do it for me.)
by epistasis | 2025-10-08 04:10:53+00:00
You'll need to show your numbers, I don't follow what sort of reasoning could arrive at needing a different approach for decarbonizing the grid.

Average US consumer costs are $70/MWh for transmission [1], out of $130/MWh total averaged across all consumer types [2].

However, those are average prices, residential consumers pay far higher prices, especially for the T&D side.

New utility scale solar is $38-$78/MWh unsubsidized [3, page 8], at $1.15-$1.6/W. [3, page 34].

Meanwhile, residential solar is $2.5/W to $3.5/W [4], meaning it's only twice as expensive as utility scale solar. All told, that means that residential solar cost is roughly equal to the cost of utility scale + T&D. (While searching the web, several results claimed that residential solar typically costs $0.06-$0.10/kWh, or $60-$100/MWh, but that seems too low, and I'm guessing is from old data when it was cheaper to residential builds...)

All this ignores storage, etc. But residential solar shaves off the highest peak of demand from air conditioning on the hottest days, so every time I see a neighbor install solar I cheer because I know that it's less justification for the utility to build out more T&D for the rest of the power needs.

[1] https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-electric-utilitie...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[3] Main report PDF at https://www.lazard.com/news-announcements/lazard-releases-20...

[4] many sources, this hasn't changed much in years, one random top web hit is here: https://www.ecoflow.com/us/blog/california-solar-panel-costs...
by mg | 2025-10-08 04:11:20+00:00
the hypothesis maintains that stock prices reflect all relevant information about the stock

This is a common description of the EMH. But every time I read it, I think: Does information really directly impact the price of a stock? How?

What if it takes 12 months of hard thinking to draw the right conclusion from the information? Are there many investors who go to such lengths? Are they all thinking at the same speed? And if not, what does that tell us about the EMH?

Google released DeepDream in 2015. My feeling is that with enough thinking, one could have predicted where image generation is going in the next decade and that language generation would go a similar route. And that this will lead to a high demand in Nvidia's GPUs. But that thinking would not be instantly. It would take months or years.
by spyckie2 | 2025-10-08 04:11:21+00:00
Not quite my area of expertise but I can venture a guess. It's not large enterprise deals, that's a bit too random and narrow minded. Large software companies care more about their position in market (market share).

At the end of the day businesses build money machines that you put money in and you take money out from various markets. You need legibility if you want to tie all development work to how it affects how much of the market you own. And it's not quite legibility that is needed, it's accurate future market share prediction, which requires a particularly strategic form of legibility. The only way to increase market share without luck is to accurately forecast what your actions will do to your market share. But how can you do that if you have no idea what your devs are building and shipping?

We tend to make fun of incompetent business people but this is what the competent ones are doing - being super accurate in their forecast of future revenue, and forcing devs to build things that will help gain market share.

Devs often don't think about business strategy enough (as evidenced by the original article, no offense). So they aren't usually good at tying everything they do back to gaining market share. Devs who are the market audience for their app can be naturally good at PMF and going from 0 to 1, but as you scale its very hard to find devs that are also the market audience of the product they are building, so they tend to be bad at predicting how their dev roadmap will affect market share gain.

Without legibility, a team of devs can be a slot machine where you pull the lever and hope the features hit the jackpot or at least a modest return and not duds. With small bets, that's a great way to become large, but its no way to run a competitive large business.
by beeflet | 2025-10-08 04:12:17+00:00
I am reading Dune Messiah now and it clearly isn't as good as the first book. I consider the story more of a self-contained book than a series.

Taking the first book by itself, it doesn't speak much about the relationship between man and machine. The fundamental themes are rooted in man's relationship with ecology (both as the cause and effect).
by tptacek | 2025-10-08 04:12:47+00:00
Find the most important message board or mailing list that politics in your municipality happens on. For us, it's 2-3 Facebook Groups (I wish it weren't, but it's not even a little up to me). Learn as much as you can about how things work, be generally helpful on the forums, volunteer when opportunities open up, get to know the people on your police oversight and technology boards (you probably have both), and start talking to them about this stuff.

Anybody interested in more details, you can reach out and I can shoot you our General Order. I should write this up somewhere.
by gnavadev | 2025-10-08 04:12:52+00:00
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by zdw | 2025-10-08 04:13:45+00:00
TiVos used to be great and unique, but ever since the core DVR functionality was obvious after the fact and everyone copied the feature, and then streaming came in, there was little unique, especially on the hardware side.

For OTA recording, I've used Windows Media Center but it went out of support, and more recently the HDHomerun DVR, which both worked decently.