MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grayhatter | 2025-11-06 16:17:07+00:00
> This comes from the dated perspective that free trade is universally good.

lol, ok, I'll bite. Other than one side might try to change the rules; why should I believe is free trade is no longer universally good? What is the specific argument?

Because if the argument is that one side might impose taxes, duh? But that's no longer free trade is it?

If both sides were willing to play fair, why wouldn't that be better? And why shouldn't we all be trying to "encourage" everyone to play fair?
by jonplackett | 2025-11-06 16:17:40+00:00
Every induction stove I’ve ever used though, was designed by someone who either has never heard of human interface design, or has done and entirely hates the concept of it.

Eg, buttons so close to the heating element that they hurt to press

Buttons to turn it off that only work when dry, places near where a spill would go.

Buttons you have to press up to 10 times just to get it to a reasonable heat.

Why does induction also have to equal no buttons, and no dials?
by ndiddy | 2025-11-06 16:17:54+00:00
Well-designed GUIs can be fully keyboard operated, where the mouse-driven interface only serves as a way to educate the user about which functionality is available. I'll use Tera Term (a serial terminal emulator) as an example. If you want to start a serial XMODEM transfer, you can figure out how to do it just by clicking around the user interface. You click on "File", then "Transfer", then "XMODEM", then "Send". Once you do it a few times, you remember the layout of the menus, and can start navigating solely by keyboard. Instead of "breaking your flow" by having to reach for the mouse, you just hold down Alt and type "FTXS". This is much faster, and you learned how to do it entirely from just using the program and observing which letters are underlined in the menus. There's no need to look at a manual or help page.
by BtM909 | 2025-11-06 16:18:03+00:00
> The Australian government is floating a scheme that would share the benefits of solar power with everyone on the grid, offering totally free electricity to ratepayers in the middle of the day, when the sun is shining the strongest.

> Australia proposes letting everyone benefit from negative wholesale rates

I know more countries have this now, so that's a good initiative that hopefully will spread to other countries (with negative rates).
by kristofferR | 2025-11-06 16:18:10+00:00
Isn't a stove/cooker guard actually what you're looking for?

They're legally mandated in Norway, there's already a big section of them, some have Zigbee, like this one:

https://www.firefence.org/ https://www.bekkelund.net/2024/02/19/firefence-komfyrvakt/

I'm sure there are products in other markets too.
by Projectiboga | 2025-11-06 16:18:18+00:00
The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content, according to a subpoena posted by the website. The FBI subpoena says it is part of a criminal investigation, though it does not provide any details about what alleged crime is being investigated. Archive.today is also popularly known by several of its mirrors, including archive.is and archive.ph.

The subpoena, which was posted on X by archive.today on October 30, was sent by the FBI to Tucows, a popular Canadian domain registrar. It demands that Tucows give the FBI the “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” and other information about the “customer behind archive.today.”

“THE INFORMATION SOUGHT THROUGH THIS SUBPOENA RELATES TO A FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED BY THE FBI,” the subpoena says. “YOUR COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO FURNISH THIS INFORMATION. YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFINITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.”

The subpoena also requests “Local and long distance telephone connection records (examples include: incoming and outgoing calls, push-to-talk, and SMS/MMS connection records); Means and source of payment (including any credit card or bank account number); Records of session times and duration for Internet connectivity; Telephone or Instrument number (including IMEI, IMSI, UFMI, and ESN) and/or other customer/subscriber number(s) used to identify customer/subscriber, including any temporarily assigned network address (including Internet Protocol addresses); Types of service used (e.g. push-to-talk, text, three-way calling, email services, cloud computing, gaming services, etc.)”

-snip-

Read more: https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamou...
by rohinbharg | 2025-11-06 16:18:38+00:00
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by burnermore | 2025-11-06 16:18:39+00:00
Either you dont know or dont care. This didn't happen over night.

The community members had a huge voice in the project. They were part of the releases. And I dont remember what they were called. Community managers?? They pushed them off and took all their access and privileges systematically. Which led to an exodus of them back in 2015? '16? Or was it in '13?

Am just waiting for Firefox to show ads since they have acquired anonym - behavioral ad company which is essentially surveillance data economy.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-06 16:18:44+00:00
Alternate between using the left and right Alt keys. The ergonomist's rule of thumb (no pun intended) is to use both halves of the keyboard. So if pressing Alt-x, use the right Alt button, etc.

I had RSI issues early in my career and this advice alone really helped. Never got the Emacs pinky/thumb. I recently switched to a MacOS and that is giving me thumb issues with the overuse of the Meta button. I now consciously have to force myself to use a different finger when pressing Meta.

Always remember: You have five fingers - no need to keep using the same one/two fingers to press Ctrl or Alt. It will take time getting your brain used to using other fingers for this purpose.

Oh, and yes: Definitely got lots of ergonomic pains due to mouse use. In fact, I changed my career from "regular" engineering to SW engineering partially to avoid having to use a mouse (e.g. CAD SW). And every ergonomist you'll meet will tell you "Memorize keyboard shortcuts and avoid the mouse as much as possible."
by hexator | 2025-11-06 16:18:45+00:00
From reading some of the reactions to this post, this quote comes to mind by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

There are a lot of people here who have spent a lot of time, money, and effort building AI products. And they may be good and worthwhile! I'm literally one of them. But you still see some people totally underestimate this public-facing trust collapse and the growing anti-AI sentiment in general.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-06 16:18:47+00:00
I don't think it's disproportionate at all. Nerds very badly want a viable alternative to Chrome and "Chrome with s paintjob". The only alternative is Firefox, but Mozilla has been a pretty shitty company and very bad stewards of an open web.

People are mad at Mozilla and Firefox because they're squandering resources on PR and "optics", shoveling in ads and AI crap instead of focusing development efforts on making Firefox actually competitive.

People are mad because Mozilla wants us to think they're a good company who will bring back a fair and open web, but their actions say they're just a profit motivated company who is content to put in the minimum viable resources into Firefox without investing in a real competitor to Chrome. Mozilla is just gobbling up google money and is content to let google and chrome continue operating a near monopoly with a browser and internet that are actively bad for and hostile towards users.
by gnulinux | 2025-11-06 16:18:47+00:00
Even in this thread people underestimate how good e.g. DuckDB can be if you swallow its quirks. Yeah SQL has many problems, but with a slightly extended language with QoL features and seamless parallelism DuckDB is extremely productive if you want to crunch bunch of numbers in the order of minutes, hours etc (not real time).

Sometimes I have a problem, I just generate bunch of "possible solutions" with a constraint solver (e.g. Minizinc) which generates GBs of CSVs describing bunch of solutions, then let DuckDB analyze which ones are suitable, DuckDB is amazing.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-06 16:19:40+00:00
I'm not sure this article makes the case for its title. Everything cited seem like technical analysis. The charts are just "number go up" style boosterism. Palantir's moat seems to be sales engineers with high level DoD clearances and a warfighter-style name "foward deployed engineers". EG&G or General Dynamics could roust themselves from slumber and do the same sorts of things, couldn't they?
by russdill | 2025-11-06 16:19:44+00:00
Many hot water heaters use gas which may be cheaper than resistive heating depending on where you live. Additionally, there are now water heaters that use a heat pump which will be more efficient than either.

And of course they'll be setups that use solar heating or are programmed to heat by time of day.

This is all down in the weeds though because a dishwasher does not use very much water.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-06 16:20:04+00:00
> Infrastructure for blocking websites simply shouldn't exist.

I think people have forgotten how extreme a position this is: the idea that once something is on the internet, national law simply ceases to apply and governments should have absolutely zero control over obscene material, IP infringment, harassment, libel, foreign propaganda, money laundering, fraudulent financial services, gambling, and so on - simply because it's hosted in a different country.

Not even the US really believes that domestically .. or even when it comes to overseas enforcement, such as sending the FBI to New Zealand to get Kim Dotcom. Or the Pokerstars case.

Not to mention I am really skeptical of the magic invocation of "trade" to overrule national sovereignty. That leads you to stupid places such as Philip Morris trying to use the ISDS process to force Australia to accept an inherently poisonous product (fortunately they eventually lost). https://www.linklaters.com/insights/blogs/arbitrationlinks/2...
by huherto | 2025-11-06 16:20:31+00:00
I don't disagree, but I have seen a few counter examples in my life.

Some of the smartest people that I have known are also the kindest. It is like they are so smart that are able to understand and empathize with other people thoughts and feelings. In any place I go, I look for the kindest people and frequently you also find they are also really smart and interesting.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-11-06 16:20:40+00:00
so for example Germany should not be allowed to block neo-nazi sites?

illegal gambling sites in country X must be allowed if they are legal in country Y - Y being America I guess.

>it ends up subsumed by political and corporate interests I believe the term for this is legislated by the laws of particular lands and regions.

Essentially Cloudflare tells U.S Government to set the rules for rest of world please.
by keybored | 2025-11-06 16:20:42+00:00
Out of the mountains of content, one single symbol would provoke the ire of non-ascii reactionaries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44072922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073287
by dcchuck | 2025-11-06 16:20:46+00:00
There's a Bertrand Russell book on this very topic, The Conquest of Happiness - https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Happiness-Bertrand-Russell/d... (not an affiliate link)

I enjoyed the read. Felt like Russell just thought about this question for a while, and shared his thoughts. It was very practical and enjoyable.

Disclaimer: I recall some "wow, we don't talk like that anymore" moments. And I didn't enjoy the hyperbole of the cover quotes. But the content of the book debunks those.
by imiric | 2025-11-06 16:20:50+00:00
Isn't the alternative far more likely? These tools were trained on the way people write in certain settings, which includes a lot of curated technical articles like this one, and we're seeing that echoed in their output.

There's no "LLM style". There's "human style mimicked by LLMs". If they default to a specific style, then that's on the human user who chooses to go with it, or, likely, doesn't care. They could just as well make it output text in the style of Shakespeare or a pirate, eschew emojis and bulleted lists, etc.

If you're finding yourself influenced by LLMs—don't be. Here's why:

• It doesn't matter.

• Keep whatever style you had before LLMs.

:tada:
by pron | 2025-11-06 16:20:51+00:00
> You have to consider circumstantial factors as well

This, too, goes into the probability of something being right or wrong. But the problem I'm pointing out is an inconsistent epistemology. The same kind of test should be applied to any claim, and then they have to be compared. When people trust a random TikToker over the NYT, they're not applying the same test to both sides.

> It’s also why things like calling your opponents dumb, etc is so harmful.

People who don't try to have any remotely consistent mechanism for weighing the likelihood of one claim against a contradicting one are, by my definition, stupid. Whether it's helpful or harmful to call them stupid is a whole other question.
by quantummagic | 2025-11-06 16:20:53+00:00
Almost everyone believes they're thinking critically, that's just how it feels to think at all. As an aside, I wonder about the average person who extols critical thinking, and how proficient he actually is himself; in my experience they're often conformist and susceptible to uncritically accepting consensus positions.

The truth is, for those of us with lower IQ, it doesn't matter how critically we think, we lack the knowledge and mental dexterity to reliably arrive at a nuanced and deep understanding of the world.

You have to stop dreaming of a world where everyone can sort everything out for themselves, and instead build a world where people can reliably trust expert opinion. It's about having a high-trust society. That requires people in privileged positions to not abuse their advantage in a short term way, at the cost of alienating, and losing the trust of the unwashed masses.

Because that's what has happened, the experts have been exploited as a social cudgel, by the psychopathic and malignant managerial class, in such an obvious and blunt way, that even those of us who are self-aware of our limitations, figure we're as likely to get it right ourselves, as to get honest and correct information from our social institutions.
by scottLobster | 2025-11-06 16:20:57+00:00
It's not just a failure to appreciate, it's an outright demonization of many of these observations as racist/imperialist. One of the prime motivators for this kind of development "aid" is the mistaken belief that the only issue is a lack of resources or external exploitation, and if you just provide the resources and/or remove the exploitation a given place will naturally turn into an enlightened Western nation-equivalent. Maybe with some fun unique cultural festivals, local cuisine, and some harmless, quirky native dances in exotic outfits!

Meanwhile even in the West it's easy to find people who win the lottery and are broke a year later, or rich celebrities/pro athletes who make tons of money and lose it all, or die with far less than you'd expect. Those people are laughed at and/or pitied, because even they are held to to a higher standard than some poor 3rd-worlder who's just a pure victim
by btilly | 2025-11-06 16:20:59+00:00
In my experience, long-term volunteers like this don't just up and quit without having already made multiple attempts at communicating first. The fact that those attempts are not detailed in a public "I quit" message, doesn't mean that those attempts didn't exist.

In my further experience, people with titles like "Senior Community Manager" (the title of Kiki, the person trying to "open communication") do not generally have the authority to make changes. Their role is like HR, to figure out how to calm down unhappy people.

This impression is further reinforced by the fact that later in the thread the leader of the Italian translation effort agreed with the basic list of complaints. And Kiki agreed with it as a list of basic problems with the bot. Which strongly suggests that Kiki agrees with the list of problems and already does not actually have authority to change them.

At this point I would classify this as opening up a channel of communication TO marsf, and not opening up a channel by which marsf can be heard in any meaningful way. Kiki is the wrong person, with the wrong message.
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-06 16:21:10+00:00
That's not bad compared to Bluetooth. Also, you will need FCC cert by law and probably some UL certs if you actually want to sell you product anywhere so you are already looking at 10s of thousands even if you choose ZigBee. I would love to live in a world where indie hardware can launch wireless products without huge cert cost but that's not the world we live in.
by zahlman | 2025-11-06 16:21:20+00:00
> It is pretty mindblowing how we have basically accepted growth as the default state

It is completely to be expected, exactly because it is not new.

It's been scarcely a generation since the peak in net change of the global human population, and will likely be at least another two generations before that population reaches its maximum value. It rose faster than exponentially for a few centuries before that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:P...). And across that time, for all our modern complaints, quality of life has improved immensely.

Of all the different experiences of various cultures worldwide and across recent history, "growth" has been quite probably the most stable.

Culture matters. People's actions are informed by how they are socialized, not just by what they can observe in the moment.
by udev4096 | 2025-11-06 16:21:21+00:00
It's not even a distro lmao. You are fully DHH-pilled. I would point you to this article: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/, although it hardly covers the main points, it's still good enough to explain what's actually wrong with that bloated INSTALL SCRIPT, NOT a distro!
by mikeyouse | 2025-11-06 16:21:23+00:00
They could also run their AC to below where their normal set point would be to “bank” some of the free electricity. I wonder if we’ll start seeing other more passive energy sinks… if you lived in a hot area and could rely on several hours of free electricity each day, it enables all sorts of interesting options like turning on a secondary cooling system to “charge” a large boulder or hunk of metal that you could then pass air over to cool your house when energy is expensive again.
by chithanh | 2025-11-06 16:21:29+00:00
> I think the concern here is more with the implementations (coming out of China) than the instruction set itself.

Yes that is the pretense, but what they actually want to block is RISC-V adoption.

It's a bit similar to car industry opposition to right to repair, they ran TV ads claiming dangers for safety and security if independent repair were allowed. Louis Rossmann did a series of videos on this.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-06 16:21:46+00:00
You are correct but nothing can be done about it IMO. PLs live and die by their "killer apps" and that is most of the time the framework du jour.

There are refreshing exceptions here and there but there's also something to be said about whether it's a good thing that frameworks don't dominate a certain PL (like Golang; everything is very readable if verbose but one does get tired of generating the same boilerplate all the time).
by yndoendo | 2025-11-06 16:22:03+00:00
Anyone else see AI as nothing more than a logging system for citing real world experience and expertise?

In order for any AI/ML content to have value it must cite where the accumulation of information came from. By not doing so it nothing more than a custom Wikipedia-esque with a motto _Trust Me Bro_.

Citations and lack there of should be a simple key factor in evaluating trust. What are your sources for this idea / answer?
by hearsathought | 2025-11-06 16:22:29+00:00
> It's things like relationships, satisfying work, accomplishment. (and many, many more)

That's the point. Smarter people tend to have more stable relationships, satisfying work, accomplishments. ( and many, many more ).

> How many of those happiness 'sources' are made better by intelligence?

All of them. You get better jobs with intelligence. You achieve greater accomplishments via intelligence. And your relationships tend to be better because you are in a far better position intellectually, socially and financially.

> There's no direct link between the two

You are contradicting yourself here. There is a direct link to the criteria you listed - relationships, satisfying work, accomplishment.

> Smart people are better able to create the outcomes they want > They select outcomes that make them happy > Their environment makes them happy > Smart people are happier.

No. The problem is that intelligent people eventually realize that all of it is fleeting and utlimately meaningless - relationships, work, accomplishments. (and many, many more).
by bellamoon544 | 2025-11-06 16:23:19+00:00
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