MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buellerbueller | 2025-11-06 15:01:02+00:00
>You keep saying “the woke left’s” identity politics as the Trump administration uses the government to enforce right wing identity politics and stifle free speech. Do you also find that objectionable?

Yes.

> Or do you think this is purely a problem on the left?

I am not a member of the right wing parties, so I have no pull with them. I also think they are less likely to change.

>My guess is the only difference is you agree with conservative identity politics and not liberal identity politics

Your guess is wrong. I think all identity politics are bad politics until we solve basic human needs stuff like feed and house everyone and jobs that pay a living wage for anyone who wants one.

I get it, I don't fit into your preconcieved box, but the boxes are designed by the oligarchy who wants to keep us in separate boxes, so we can't unite.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-06 15:01:21+00:00
I have the savings where I could quit my job, work odd fun part-time seasonal jobs, go traveling, focus on hobbies, focus on friends and family, and live a low stress generally relaxed life. Still live in my house, still drive my car.

I could probably swing this for maybe 5 years.

But after that?

I'd be very low on cash, missing valuable workplace skills, selling my home to downsize, and scrounging for money anywhere I could. Bad financial shape, and forced to give up all those great comforts.

This is what Europe has been doing, on a ~50 yr timescale. They are about 35 years into it, and the writing is on the wall. Euro leaders see it. Unfortunately for Europe, there is now a whole generation that only knows that laid back easy life. Meanwhile Europe needs to double defense spending (cut services) while fostering domestic technology development (cut taxes), all while having a top heavy population (guaranteed generous benefits). All the things necessary to stand on their own, with a hostile next door neighbor who desperately wants the former soviet lands back. And all the things that say "You need to work more for less".

If Europe doesn't get it together in the next 5-10 years, the EU will fracture, and there likely will be another European ground war.
by jm4 | 2025-11-06 15:01:30+00:00
Perhaps an independent browser is important. Mozilla and Firefox are not.

I would argue that a truly open source, easily embedded browser engine that everyone can use is more important than an independent browser. The only problem with Blink is that it's controlled almost entirely by Google. Otherwise, it's an outstanding piece of tech. It would be just about perfect if the project operated more like Linux. We wouldn't need competing engines if development was democratized. The project itself becomes the source of truth as far as standards are concerned. Each browser distro enables what they need and if something becomes popular it's just a matter of other distros enabling a build flag.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-06 15:01:30+00:00
One can also (ab)use the build system to run arbitrary preprocessing steps with any language over the "C" input. You can have recursive macros by using M4 or Perl or Python or some other language to expand them, converting your "foo.c.in" into a "foo.c" to hand off to the C preprocessor & compiler. It still feels dirty, but it's often much easier to understand & debug.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-06 15:01:56+00:00
They put an LLM in a loop that mimics how people do real math, and it did research-level math.

Like humans, it wasn't equally capable across all mathematical domains.

The experiment was set up to mimic mathematicians who are excellent at proving inequalities, bounds, finding optimal solutions, etc. So more like Ramanujan and Erdős in their focus on a computationally-driven and problem-focused approach.
by pbnjeh | 2025-11-06 15:01:58+00:00
His prior dishwasher videos rescued my parents' 30-ish year old dishwasher -- one they had previously been advised to avoid replacing as long as possible, as modern units don't have the same construction quality.

Following his cleaning instructions and, subsequently, his usage advice, did the trick.

Regarding the latter, notably adding the recommended prewash dose of detergent in addition to the main dose, and running the kitchen sink's hot tap until the water is fully hot before starting the dishwasher. Here in the US with our lower power capacity, resulting in dishwasher heating elements being restricted to lower power to avoid circuit breaker trips, when the dishwasher is correctly connected to the hot water line (typically, of the kitchen sink), doing this results in a hotter prewash and often also wash.

This all really does make a substantial difference.

Take the time to watch his dishwasher videos. If you struggle at all with the performance of yours, you won't regret doing so.
by gimmeThaBeet | 2025-11-06 15:02:15+00:00
Dang that 6k is pretty prohibitive not for the overall level, but because it's 4 hobs or nothing. Hardly a "give it a swag" kind of level. I assume they are probably somewhat comparable to the Breville Control Freak, so at a single hob you'd be competing against $1500.

But the battery is a nice philosophy, similar to hybrid/mild electric cars. You don't need all the power forever. You just need more than a 120V circuit can provide.
by throwaway2046 | 2025-11-06 15:03:07+00:00
Amazing covers, almost all the legends of dance music are here. Junior Vasquez, Sasha, BT, Oakenfold. And check out Daft Punk without the masks on issue #21!

What's also interesting is the focus shifting from House and Trance in the 1990s to Rap and Hip-Hop in the 2000s. I'm guessing if the magazine was still in publication during the very late 2000s we would have seen a reverse of this trend.
by nixgeek | 2025-11-06 15:03:27+00:00
Is anyone aware of or working on an equivalent to zigbee2mqtt but for both Matter-over-WiFi and Matter-over-Thread devices?

It’s so darn convenient to have MQTT in the picture for home automation and my #1 challenge in imagining a future world past my 400+ ZigBee devices is what replaces zigbee2mqtt and has a similar “owner experience”.
by bluGill | 2025-11-06 15:03:55+00:00
There are times I need a widget but I don't know it exists and so someone needs to inform me. Other times I know I need a widget, but I don't know about Acme and I will want to check them out too before buying.

Most ads are just manipulating me, but there are times I need the thing advertised if only I knew it was an option.
by microtonal | 2025-11-06 15:04:31+00:00
I don't have much experience with Thread + Matter (except the only device I have, an upgraded Eve Energy being a PITA), but for Zigbee/Z-Wave you do not have to be an amateur network engineer. Pairing is really straightforward and devices will automatically mesh and get routed by most mains-powered Zigbee/Z-Wave devices. It's not like you have to set up DHCP, manage an IP address range or anything like it.
by torginus | 2025-11-06 15:04:54+00:00
I think the answer to this question is that the most consistent way to make people happy is to have them partake in social group activities - going out drinking, playing/watching team sports etc, watching movies - there's something hardwired into people's consciousness that when in groups, people tend to forget their own troubles and kind of adopt a common jolly mood,

In contrast, almost all 'smart people' activities are solo activities or stuff with infrequent socialization - reading/writing, programming, playing/practicing instruments etc.

Many of these activities are quite challenning as opposed to the former ones, so more likely to bring negative emotions to the forefront.

'Smart' people also tend to have elevated expectations of themselves, and they expect to either do better in general, or succeed in some niche that most people don't really concern themselves with - that leads to perpetual feelings of inadequacy.

I'm not saying smart people are required to engage in these activities, I'm saying people should be more amenable to socializing and just chilling out together.
by businessmate | 2025-11-06 15:05:07+00:00
Large language models now shape consumer discovery, investor context, and competitive perception.

Executives can see their brand inside ChatGPT or Gemini responses, yet they cannot verify whether that visibility is accurate, reproducible, or stable.

Dashboards report presence. Auditors require proof.

In the current market, almost every “AI visibility” platform measures appearance, not integrity. None can attest that the data they show would survive replay, re-query, or external verification. The result is a widening credibility gap between what marketing teams observe and what governance teams can defend.

AVII closes that gap.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-06 15:05:11+00:00
I wasn't aware of that. One other concern I have with Matter is that, if I understand correctly, Thread+Matter devices get their own IP address with internet access, whereas with Zigbee all of that has to be controlled by the gateway.

In theory that's a win for Matter, but I'm a little concerned about the security and enshitification problems that might cause. I kinda like the idea that I can buy a cheap IoT lock off Temu and as long as my Zigbee gateway is secure there's very little chance of that decision coming back to bite me...
by Retric | 2025-11-06 15:05:24+00:00
Airports are far larger than aircraft, which enter and leave from the end of runways.

Rivers have a nice property where they tend to be the lowest thing around because water flows downhill and are quite long. For approaches from other directions half the time you end up crossing the river at some angle which acts as a buffer zone, thus reducing the total land lost as a buffer zone.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-06 15:05:30+00:00
Red has been in development for a LONG time as a modern rebol replacement. It still isn't complete like Rebol though last time I checked. The development team took a weird turn into block chain and trying to do an ICO and I'm not sure where they are anymore. The project is super ambitious and would be freaking amazing if it ever became production worthy.
by uvaursi | 2025-11-06 15:05:43+00:00
This is why people get divorced. It’s not because their partners are terrible (they can be), but because they are on train tracks of a life that isn’t theirs.

Fight Club had the answer to this, by taking a no-name Joe Schmoe (reflected as us), and putting a gun to his head: The Question, Raymond, is what did you want to be?
by skrebbel | 2025-11-06 15:05:50+00:00
Appreciate the response. I read the Devault rant. It’s not clear to me that the guy behind FUTO is actively evil, seems more like he’s trying his best and still figuring that whole “being a semi public figure funding stuff” thing out.

Drew’s position that interacting with people with bad opinions makes you evil by association doesn’t strike me as mainstream (or future-proof for that matter).
by btilly | 2025-11-06 15:05:51+00:00
This brings to mind the Tony Hsieh quote, "You show what your values really are by the opportunities you turn down."

All successful startups are fighting a battle against entropy. And entropy is becoming indistinguishable from all the other companies out there. Which means losing what made them succeed in the first place.

This is why company culture is important. You need to know what your values are. And then you need to maintain them. Even at the cost of the wrong short-term profitable opportunities.
by ghm2180 | 2025-11-06 15:06:17+00:00
>.. that LLMs can only solve problems they have seen before!

This is a reductive argument. The set of problems they are solving are proposals that can be _verified_ quickly and bad solutions can be easily pruned. Software development by a human — and even more so teams — are not those kind of problems because the context cannot efficiently hold (1) Design bias of individuals (2) Slower evolution of "correct" solution and visibility over time. (3) Difficulty in "testing" proposals: You can't build 5 different types of infrastructure proposals by an LLM — which themselves are dozens of small sub proposals — _quickly_
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-11-06 15:06:21+00:00
If all AI progress stops soon, then I think you're right. However I think automating almost all software development is not far off from being an engineering problem if one is willing to burn enough tokens. I can imagine it being done right now. Just run 100-1000 claude instances and give them different roles. Some of them take screenshots (probably include better OCR/Screenshot analysis models than whatever Anthropic is running) and act as debuggers / user testers. Some of them do planning. Some of them are managers. Some of them are coders. Etc... I'd bet 100k that I could make Halo 1 in a month or two with this setup (minus the beautiful music, compelling story, quality voice acting, art -- though trashy replacements could be made).
by ttd | 2025-11-06 15:06:22+00:00
I've got a pretty large flutter app in production, using just the flutter-provided building blocks like ValueNotifier, ListenableBuilder, InheritedWidget, etc. It has scaled quite well for me.

The main issue IMHO with many of these boilerplate-reducing packages is that they feel like one-way trips. Most of them require a change to widget inheritance, and they all have slightly different syntax and semantics for wiring things up to state changes. This means if you get a few years into a project, migrating away from the package you chose at the beginning will probably be very difficult.

So while the quick example in the readme of this package looks simple and understandable, locking in to a third-party library makes me nervous, especially if the main benefit is just fewer keystrokes. Does anyone have experience or informed opinion here that would be willing to chime in?
by Sharlin | 2025-11-06 15:06:27+00:00
> The incentive is to submit as many reports as possible and see what sticks, because even a 5% hit rate on a hundred submissions is better than the effort of manually verifying five findings.

As I just commented in the other AI trust thread on the front page, this dynamic is funnily enough what any woman using online dating services has always been very familiar with. With the exact same tragedy of the commons that results. Except for the important difference that terrible profiles and intro messages have traditionally usually been very short and easily red-flagged. But that is, of course, now also changing or already changed due to LLMs.

(Someone I follow on a certain social media platform just remarked that she got no less than fifty messages within a single hour of marking herself as "single". And she's just some average person, not a "star" of any sort.)
by burntsushi | 2025-11-06 15:06:35+00:00
It lacks a hybrid duration type. Instead, it splits durations into calendar and time durations and conflates the length of a `day` depending on whether it's in `Period` or `Duration`. And AFAIK, it doesn't support time zone aware duration rounding. And I don't see a way to compute a `Period` from two `ZonedDateTime` values in a way that respects time zone transitions.

To be clear, it's good. But there are mistakes that the Temporal project learned from and fixed.

(Temporal's single `Duration` type does have pros and cons, so I don't mean to frame having two distinct types as a strict negative. But it's very clunky.)
by jcranmer | 2025-11-06 15:06:49+00:00
IEEE 754 doesn't (usually) distinguish between different NaN encodings for the purposes of semantics--if the result is a NaN, it doesn't specify which NaN the result is. Most hardware vendors implement a form of NaN propagation: when both inputs are NaN, one of the operands is returned, for example, always the left NaN is returned if both are NaN.

As a side note: all compilers I'm aware of make almost no guarantees on preserving the value of NaN payloads, hence they consider floating-point operations to be fully commutative, and there's no general way to guarantee that they evaluate in exactly the order you specified.
by g8oz | 2025-11-06 15:06:50+00:00
What happened with the International Criminal Court should be an object lesson. The chief prosecutor of the ICC has been locked out of his email and documents for months. Microsoft had to lock him out after the Trump administration retaliated for the court's investigation into Israel's Gaza genocide.

It is incredibly irresponsible for any international jurisdiction or civil organization to be increasing its dependence on American technology. It's a question of sovereign risk.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-international-criminal-cou...
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-06 15:07:35+00:00
I was thinking about this too. There are tradeoffs around repairability. As an example, if you're expecting the unit to live in a wet environment it's not unreasonable to consider potting the circuit boards. This makes water ingress as a source of failure significantly less likely, but also has thermal effects (heat can't radiate very well through a block of silicone) that can hurt the overall lifetime as well as make it almost impossible to repair.
by k310 | 2025-11-06 15:07:36+00:00
May I recommend Libre Office? [0] For casual/home use, it should meet needs. Free, no subscription. Spreadsheet can collaborate. [1]

Collabra Office seems to be the port of LibreOffice to ios. (free) Look it up on the app store.

> Collabora Office is a text editor, spreadsheet and presentation program based on LibreOffice, the world's most popular Open Source office suite - and now it's on iOS, enhancing your possibilities to work on mobile devices.

Collaborative versions, a.k.a. Collabra online are available, but hosting is never free.

But TBH, I am your "more casual than casual" office suite user and the bundled Apple apps do my minimal office tasks, and are compatible with MS formats.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/...

[2] https://www.collaboraonline.com/
by davidmurdoch | 2025-11-06 15:07:47+00:00
Elegrp switches can be used offline. They need to be provisioned online first though, unless you flash with esphome (which can't currently be done wirelessly), but then you'll have to write a custom integration config.

Pros: very inexpensive, and they look great. Cons: WiFi/ble only, they feel cheap, dimmers don't support a "transition" comment, so you cant dim over time easily.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-06 15:08:17+00:00
The annoying thing is, there was a voice in the back of my head saying “I’m pretty sure the blacksmith was more involved in the horse-shoeing process” as I wrote the post, but I’d already written enough of the post that I didn’t want to bother checking.

Well, no worries. If you subscribe to the post+ service I’ll fix it in a couple years, promise.
by theturtlemoves | 2025-11-06 15:08:21+00:00
> All AI has done is automated an already terrible process, which has - ironically - broken it so badly that it no longer works.

Evil contains within itself the seed of its own destruction ;)

Sure, sometimes you should fight the decline. But sometimes... just shrug and let it happen. Let's just take the safety labels off some things and let problems solve themselves. Let everybody run around and do AI and SEO. Good ideas will prevail eventually, focus on those. We have no influence on the "when", but it's a matter of having stamina and hanging in there, I guess
by antonvs | 2025-11-06 15:08:55+00:00
> It's funny that as soon as anything European (not even related to EU one bit)

Living in the US, I've noticed many Americans don't really make distinctions like that. They see "EU" as a kind of shorthand for "Europe", or something along those lines. Even the fact that the UK is no longer in the EU doesn't affect this - it's still part of what Americans think of as "the EU".
by jfengel | 2025-11-06 15:09:41+00:00
That sounds like something from the opinion page rather than the news. That is ok, as long as it's clearly labeled. It doesn't sound particularly high quality; perhaps they were a local giving their view from the community.

Regardless, clearly labeled opinions are standard practice in journalism. They're just not on the front page. If you saw that on the front page, then I'd need more context, because that is not common practice at NYT.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-06 15:10:28+00:00
> It's also well-known language from product managers and UX researchers trying to gather data to improve their product. And well-known language from customer support people trying to gather more information in order to escalate to the right people who can help.

No it is not. The particular phrasing that was used I have never seen used in any other way than to be dismissive towards people.

> Your knee-jerk cynicism saddens me.

My cynicism isn't knee jerk, My cynicism stems from roughly 20 years working as a developer, being in and observing the industry.

> If someone doesn't want to help, they generally just ignore. They generally don't suggest hopping on a call ASAP. When they want to call you is when they're taking it seriously.

Not if it gets noticed and talked about on forums. It is then used as damage control.
by kbolino | 2025-11-06 15:10:30+00:00
You're both stating things that are a bit beside the point.

Pure Go code uses registers to pass function arguments whenever possible. Large structs and/or numerous arguments can still spill onto the stack, though.

FFI (cgo) uses whatever the platform's calling convention requires. These conventions also usually favor registers.

Go has its own assembly language, which is neither of those two things. Go assembly technically supports two ABIs, one called "ABI0" and the other called "ABIInternal" [1]. The former passes all arguments on the stack and is stable while the latter passes some arguments through registers but is unstable and subject to change. Accordingly, people writing Go code outside of the Go toolchain almost always use ABI0, so that the code keeps working even when new versions of Go are released.

[1]: https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/refs/heads/dev.regabi/src/c...
by guzik | 2025-11-06 15:10:42+00:00
So I went on X after a long break from social media, and my feed is full of tips like this one:

Growing on X is so simple I’m shocked it works.

100x comments a day

10x posts a day

15x DM’s a day

1x thread a day

1x email a day

This is how you grow your presence on X.

Even if having a presence matters, how can you actually say something meaningful if you post 10 times a day - there's no way (unless you just repeat yourself). Hopefully my algorithm's just gone weird but sadly the people I used to follow stopped posting.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-06 15:10:49+00:00
At one point the user to please becomes a stakeholder, the need is a metric that needs to go up, the edge case is legislation or a specific need. From a user's point of view, services like Spotify or Slack have been stagnant for a decade, but I'm sure that in the background they've been doing work costing hundreds of millions in investments and developer time.
by tinkelenberg | 2025-11-06 15:10:55+00:00
I’m exploring a similar implementation and am honestly torn between NixOS and a more monolithic experience like Debian or OpenBSD.

As much as I love the idea of declarative builds, I’m struggling to justify the investment of learning and maintaining Nix for an individual setup. I’ve dabbled with it and mostly encountered footguns.

Whatever makes a nice, clean slab is what I’m after.
by stereolambda | 2025-11-06 15:11:08+00:00
While you you're making good points, this shows that engineers and industry intentionally make work more complex than necessary in order to justify higher prices for labor. This is not so uncommon in today's economy, especially white collar and regulated work that most people don't understand, but worth thinking about regardless.

To be fair, it's hard to imagine economy and civilization crashing hard enough to force us to be more efficient. But who knows.