MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shagie | 2025-11-11 21:38:17+00:00
> Do you have some sort of different understanding of copyright law where it's legal to commercially use lyrics (verbatim, mind you) without a license?

Some places have a concept of de minimus as applied to copyright. It is often not prosecuted to have an acoustic guitar and an open case and play music on a park bench. You may need a license for busking in some places - but that's not tied to the music that you play (it could be your own or it could be covers).

I am not saying that it is legal, but rather that it is beneath the notice of the courts.
by hinkley | 2025-11-11 21:38:23+00:00
Every delivered feature is a liability not an asset.

If you don’t believe me, consider two products that make customers equally happy and one has half as many moving parts. Which one is more profitable to maintain? The one with less shit. Because the rest is just more liability.

So if I deliver a feature all by myself quickly and move on to something else, I’m digging a bigger hole and faster than the wisdom arrives to change directions.

But most importantly, none of the rest of you fuckers know what I built or why, except what you gleaned from standup or whatever docs I wrote in place of collaboration. And docs written without collaboration are usually hot garbage.

So what do you all do when I’m hiking in the woods and the cluster is on fire? Sure would be nice if I collaborated on that functionality wouldn’t it? Then you’d have two other people to ask.
by _ihaque | 2025-11-11 21:39:04+00:00
Based on the description of the wiring to the motor (24V, GND, POT1, POT2, NC), it doesn't sound like the original setup would have been drawing much power through the pot either -- there's probably something else on the other end of that wire that is doing modulation based on the sense resistance, and the motor is itself drawing power from the 24V line. So while it's true that there should be a check for the allowable limits on the digipot, I don't think it's actually being used to sink much power.
by schiffern | 2025-11-11 21:39:08+00:00
Catch 22. The best way to avoid hard facts is to scare away scientists. ;)

But I agree, this is just garbage pseudoscience. I listened to the Banned & Reported episode, and TL;DR the Telepathy Tapes experiments had a non-blinded 'facilitator' touching the blindfolded 'psychic.' My mind immediately went to Clever Hans, before the podcast hosts even brought it up later in the episode.

Just watch any Derren Brown video to see how easy it is to 'cue' someone from across the room. This is James Randi 101, folks...
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-11 21:39:11+00:00
I killed all social media a year or two ago other than LinkedIn. Was super burned out and it is great outside of constantly getting sent links to platforms I can't see things.

w.r.t. to Twitter - I was early on Twitter in 2007, deleted the account and just restarted my Twitter last week. Thankfully, got my old handle @cyrusradfar.

Folks shared there's a lot of tech folk on there. I haven't engaged yet but am building up the energy to try. Wish me luck :)
by egypturnash | 2025-11-11 21:39:22+00:00
I have been drawing professionally for about a quarter of a century and it is my experience there are a lot of sequences that recur. A hand is a complex piece of anatomy but you really only need a mental library of a few dozen poses to meet most needs, for instance. You don't repeat it exactly every time, it's easy to change the angle a little, the lighting needs to adapt to the scene, some hands are dainty and some are big meatslabs, but that's all about as easy to adjust on the fly as, say, shifting the rhythm of a rock song you know well into a big band swing groove.

You also learn a discipline we artists call "construction", wherein you can quickly break any object down into a few basic shapes that are incredibly easy to reason about in 3d, and quickly layer details atop that.

Also consider a daily comic strip. How many times do you think Charles Schultz drew Charlie Brown in a single year? How many of those drawings were largely similar to each other? Now that's serious production work. Animation's similar, you probably have a wider range of angles and motion than in a 1970s newspaper comics page but you are still drawing the same character a zillion times and your hand learns stuff and spits it back out without any conscious thought on your part.
by j0057 | 2025-11-11 21:39:42+00:00
> A partially typed password would be output to standard input if a timeout occurred when Defaults pwfeedback was not enabled (GHSA-q428-6v73-fc4q).

> Timestamp files did not take into account the setting of the Defaults targetpw and Defaults rootpw (GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw)
by dylan604 | 2025-11-11 21:40:00+00:00
In my case, yes, but my pipeline is closed. Processes run on isolated instances that are terminated without haste as soon as workflow ends. Even if uncaught fatal errors occur, janitor scripts run to ensure instances are terminated on a fast schedule. This isn't something running on my personal device with random content that was provided by unknown someone on the interwebs.

So while this might be a high security risk because it possibly could allow RCE, the real-world risk is very low.
by EdgeExplorer | 2025-11-11 21:40:04+00:00
> Ablation (Latin: ablatio – removal) is the removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials[clarification needed] are described below, including spacecraft material for ascent and atmospheric reentry, ice and snow in glaciology, biological tissues in medicine and passive fire protection materials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation

The poster is saying that a case can wear out and be replaced without damage to the phone. You can let the case take all the damage, then get a new one. But if you let a phone take all the damage (even if it's a tougher phone), you can't remove that damage.
Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-11-11 21:40:23+00:00
It's the year 2025. We have crispr-cas9, chatgpt, new missions to the Moon and maybe Mars... and yet, it feels like there's no great solution to deal with mosquitoes. Lasers to fry them? magnetic waves to repel them? What's our there that I don't know?
by milesvp | 2025-11-11 21:40:28+00:00
I'm a little disappointed at the amount of me tooism in this thread. I think a lot of people here have maybe had really bad collaborative experiences. Maybe that's the default? most orgs are going to be bad at most things (tm).

I can't help but think about this paper I ran across over a decade ago, that found a very high correlation between team diversity and paper citations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02282

This one always stuck with me, partially because of personal biases, but also because it just seems so powerful to have access to different perspectives when trying to build something. I know from personal experience, that when someone on my team has something unusual about them, when we build a thing with them in mind, the final product is just better. It might be related to the old advice of making sure that everyone's computer is different to make it more likely to run into bugs. Or make sure the devs don't have the fastest computers so they notice performance issues. But I also see it a lot in gaming too. If you tell me a game has color blind settings, that immediately gives me a big hint as to the quality of the rest of the game.

So this begs the question to me. What is it about building with someone in mind that is different than the collaboration that the author is talking about? Like, we expect committees to produce spheres. And we expect bike shedding to derail meetings. But what is different? is it agency? is it a single vision for the design? There is definitely something to be said for having one person who really understands the problem being the one to arbitrate all decisions about the thing. Is it how criticism is offered, or maybe whether a criticism can be ignored without social backlash? Is collaboration really that different than customer feedback which is generally seen as healthy for a product?
by MBCook | 2025-11-11 21:40:38+00:00
Not GP, but it’s probably a personal thing.

I remember the iPod socks. Now make them bigger. Now stretch them out a bunch. Now make it look a little more like Borat’s speedo.

Now charge like 7x-10x what the iPod socks cost.

If the first place I had seen this was not a direct link to apple.com I too would’ve thought this was a complete joke.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-11 21:40:46+00:00
Also any older folks who grew up with HP calculators and prefer RPN over the newer calculators.

There was a time when RPN was waaay better than the TI and other competition, but in my mind that time is now past us. I can use both designs well and will take a TI-89 over a Swiss Micros (mind you I own several) almost any day as it is more straightforward. That's my opinion anyway. This improvement over the DM42 is pretty cool though.

Another Swiss Micros use is for people who work in a lab with gloves and can use a calculator better than a phone.
by announcer4614 | 2025-11-11 21:41:13+00:00
Hey, author here. That's correct. The potentiometer has 5V going through it, with a current range of 30-164μA, which fell within limits of the digipot. I opted to use the digipot instead of my own PWM because something else must be doing PWM closer to the motor, where I didn't want to go modifying.
by lubujackson | 2025-11-11 21:41:44+00:00
What I take from this is that LLMs are somewhat miraculous in generation but terrible at revision. Especially with images, they are very resistant to adjusting initial approaches.

I wonder if there is a consistent way to force structural revisions. I have found Nano Banana particularly terrible at revisions, even something like "change the image dimensions to..." it will confidently claim success but do nothing.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-11 21:42:08+00:00
When all is told, I'd bet that the key ingredients are that Musk is a messianic figure to men with Robin Hood accounts, and there are some financial shenanigans going on with investors that are sympathetic to his politics.

He just needs to buy a sports team or three to pick up the remaining sports gamblers who haven't joined the cult yet.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-11 21:42:19+00:00
In my company we have the best of both worlds - things are slow as hell and there's shitload of tech debt. This is direct result of "collaboration" aka "nobody actually owns anything". I put forward a proposal to standardize various things across our software, and in response my manager called a meeting of 10 people. No proposal can survive a meeting of 10 people at once.

IMO the best way is to split your organization into units that nicely map with technological/business boundaries, and then give each unit the responsibility to own something tanglible. The problem is, if the organization is full of idiots, everyone tries to do the opposite, in order to diffuse the responsibility.
by zahlman | 2025-11-11 21:42:38+00:00
> I think a reasonable person can conclude that what Damore did was de-facto engaging in harmful stereotypes, even if he believed he was creating a grounded argument from science.

No, a reasonable person cannot do so, because this is a matter of fact. This conclusion is incompatible with what the word "stereotype" means. Objectively, an empirically backed statistical trend is not a stereotype. Again, this is like using the word" stereotype to describe the statement "on average, men are taller than women".

It is not a question of Damore believing he was creating a grounded argument from science. It is a question of the objective fact that he was doing so.

> And while Damore didn't single out any specific coworker, he made clear that he was approaching working with his colleagues from a framework that made assumptions about them based on gender

No. His framework does not "make assumptions about them", i.e. about individuals. It highlights things that are known to be true as statistical patterns. He was explicit in noting that he does not use these statistics to prejudge people, for example:

> Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

He was explicit that his purpose in highlighting the statistics is to refute an argument he saw being made that a disparate outcome evidenced a bias. He offered an alternate explanation for the outcome.

To say that this is wrong is to say, in effect, that he is not allowed to hold the view, never mind express it. And it is to say that no refutation of the argument presented could be tolerated.

That is not how healthy discussion works. And as I recall, Damore's feedback was part of a program explicitly soliciting this sort of feedback.

Also notable, Damore also claimed (again correctly, again backed by statistical evidence) that women show on average higher openness and extraversion (other OCEAN traits) on the same studies where they show higher neuroticism. Nobody objected to that. Because the objection was rooted in emotional affect and a knee-jerk reaction to a word without understanding the underlying concept or caring about the evidence presented.

> Wouldn't the "reasonable person" principle conclude that,

I don't see why:

> In law, a reasonable person or reasonable man is a hypothetical person whose character and care conduct, under any common set of facts, is decided through reasoning of good practice or policy.[1][2]

I don't agree that the people in question were conducting themselves in anything like that manner.
by wredcoll | 2025-11-11 21:42:43+00:00
> do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.

This is a great summary of so many reporting failures of recent time.

Everything must have two sides and they're going to report both sides as if they were exactly equal credibility.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-11-11 21:43:04+00:00
IMO anything with unnecessary digital interfaces is already down the path.

I have a Vornado fan that I would love to automate with a simple wifi-enabled plug, but due to the digital on/off/speed button, when you cut-off and restore power to the device, it stays off. If it had a dumb analog dial or switch, it would both be fine for normal use, and could be easily, cheaply made "smart."

They do sell wifi-enabled fans; none of them are in a form factor that would fit in my window.

I'm not even alone in this gripe, lots of other maniacs have done the hard work of conversions. Unfortunately I'm not confident enough in my soldering skills to try :\ https://www.reddit.com/r/electrical/comments/vaiskf/bypass_p...
by ergocoder | 2025-11-11 21:43:12+00:00
The thing is: once you have feedback, you have to act on it. Ignoring the feedback is dangerous unless sanctioned by higher leadership.

This is our nature, and the blog does hit this point where we default to collaborate.

There is of course a better way. A senior employee should be more intentional about feedback e.g. whether can be done later, put it on a backlog, or must address right now. A junior employee should be intentional about what specific feedback they need.
by hinkley | 2025-11-11 21:43:24+00:00
We are by and large hired for cleverness, so there’s a lot of selection that makes that true even if undergrads are not far off from average.

It would be better if we were hired for wisdom. Don’t confuse cleverness and foolishness. You can be both.

But devs aren’t usually the ones treating their reports like children and then acting surprised when their prophecies become self fulfilling. You can blame Taylor for that.
by announcer4614 | 2025-11-11 21:43:33+00:00
Hey, author here. There's a line in the digipot datasheet that says the voltage on the A/B/W pins must be within -0.3V to VDD + 0.3V. The fan's line for the wiper pin is 5V, which would fall well outside of that if I gave the digipot's VDD 3.3V.
by justhw | 2025-11-11 21:43:52+00:00
I came to the same conclusion as the authors after generating 1000s of thumbnails[1]. OpenAI alters faces too much and smoothes out details by default. NanoBanana is the best but lacks high fidelity option. SeeDream is catching up to NanoBanana and sometimes is better. It's been too long since OpenAI's gpt-img-1 came out, hope they launch a better model soon.

[1] = https://thumbnail.ai/
by kg | 2025-11-11 21:44:00+00:00
When there's a need for something with specific traits and composition at high quality, I've yet to see a model that can deliver that, especially in a reasonable amount of time. It's still way more reliable to just hand a description to a skilled illustrator along w/references and then go back and forth a bit to get a quality result. The illustrator is more expensive, but my time isn't free, so it works out.

I could see that changing in a few years.
by Modified3019 | 2025-11-11 21:44:01+00:00
I can’t say for sure, but I regard all statements on maximum supported capacity to mean “that’s the biggest drive we had to test so far”, rather than being an actual technical limitation

One thing I forgot warn about, while this applies to every drive with data you care about, have automated and tested backups. SSDs can and will just up and die, and most drives these days are going to be completely unrecoverable in practice unless the issue is solder ball corrosion/breakage.

Basically, be prepared for that 8TB of data to go poof, where it’s in an enclosure or not.

If your drive is suddenly missing, you might need to reboot, or remove the device to drain power and try again, or use a different USB port. Rarely, drives need to get power cycled to recover from power loss (I’ve not had to do with with my dockcase enclosure, but did a few times prior in earlier enclosures). See https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/

Also stay away from cheap Samsung OEM drives on eBay, they have dogshit firmware that’s often been fucked with by whatever the vendor was, with no good way to get updates even if they exist. If your drive suddenly shows up as 1GB with the firmware version of “ERRORMOD” (“error mode”), it’s all gone.
by floor2 | 2025-11-11 21:45:17+00:00
Often, there's a recruiter or HR person (or piece of software) that's doing an initial screening against those "requirements" though, often with zero understanding or context.

Recruiters hiring for a Java role will pass on a candidate with 10 years of C# experience, or other similar tech-stack-swapping scenarios where the skill set is 95% transferable because they don't know anything about the actual technologies or understand the work.

And of course, the lack of honest feedback makes the whole system inscrutable. Did you get ghosted because the job was fake? Because your resume lacked some key words? Because they had a referral? Because they preferred more diverse applicants? Because they never even looked at your resume? Because you have too many years of experience? Too few? Who knows!
by bartvk | 2025-11-11 21:45:18+00:00
I get what you’re saying, to you it feels ridiculous. But the thing is, these are professional designers that have put out a product. The product page shows their professional language and it doesn’t work for all people.

But I guarantee you that they thought long and hard on this, and have very good reasons for each and every aspect of the product. It is not half assed work. I don’t see a reason to take it as a joke.
by commandlinefan | 2025-11-11 21:45:55+00:00
I interpreted it as a joke, although I couldn't help but agree with a lot of what I think was meant to be ironic.

The problem I always run into is that the potential usefulness of collaboration breaks the insistence on predictability: nothing can be done unless it can be put to, and measured against, a date and a timeline. Collaboration is inherently unpredictable and worse, spreads blame around, so there's always this insistence that collaboration take place in very constrained ways (usually in the form of pointless meetings to review line items in a text document that doesn't end up being very useful).
by joaohkfaria | 2025-11-11 21:46:08+00:00
Everyone reading this article: Don't fall for it.

There're scientific evidence that collaboration > individualism. Please, just search online about it. If it wasn't the case, do you really think every company in the world would just work in collaboration without any particular reason?

https://atlas.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/De... https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1518/001872008X375009
by crote | 2025-11-11 21:46:10+00:00
> They're giving the market the size people actually want.

Are they, though?

In my experience the smaller phones are almost always substantially worse products: they have several gigabytes less RAM, usually half the storage of the alternatives, often lack features like wireless charging, have a slower CPU, have a worse camera, and in general are made using cheaper materials.

We don't know what the market wants, because the market was never able to make a fair choice. It wasn't "big phone vs small phone", it was "big full-featured phone vs shitty watered-down small phone" - no wonder people "chose" for the big phones.
by palata | 2025-11-11 21:46:11+00:00
Sometimes it's hard: for many kinds of projects, I don't think anyone would use them if they were not open source (or at least source-available). Just like I wouldn't use a proprietary password manager, and I wouldn't use WhatsApp if I had a choice. Rather I use Signal because it's open source.

How to get people to use your app if it's not open source, and therefore not free?

For some projects, it feels better to have some people use it even if you did it for free than to just not do it at all (or do it and keep it in a drawer), right?

I am wondering, I haven't found a solution. Until now I've been open sourcing stuff, and overall I think it has maybe brought more frustration, but on the other hand maybe it has some value as my "portfolio" (though that's not clear).
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-11 21:46:21+00:00
Yes. Burn some incense or sage to add a cloaking layer to the air. First walk around like to a ritual and wafe the smoke under ledges or surfaces they like to hide, then let it burn anywhere they accumulate.

Also coconut oil masks the body. As long as you haven’t sweated your smell through your close a light oil topping may buy you several hours of concealment.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-11 21:46:37+00:00
Tesla was once the most shorted company of all time. GameStop forced the system to adapt in ways that makes shorting harder to track. It's unclear how much of the old short positions (when Tesla was valued around $20bn) are still open.

These facts imply some probable second order effects:

- Big money trapped in short positions after Tesla was added to S&P 500 desperately needed people to sell Tesla shares so they could cover.

- The costs of sponsored content to turn public sentiment against Tesla and Elon are insignificant compared to the liability of those short positions.

- covering those short positions (even gradually over a long time) pushes up the share price above what it would otherwise be.

I suspect this is why it's so confusing. Simultaneously Tesla prospects appear worse than they are if your impressions are formed by articles written by media institutions that shorts are paying for you to read, and the share price is above what even a balanced perspective would consider reasonable because shorts are still covering.

Also "meme stock" really just means stocks that had extreme short positions taken against them are discovered by many small money investors that coordinate over social media.

In some cases the short positions are so large they really should be illegal but hedge funds used loopholes. The lack of loopholes in Canada has lead to lawsuits.

So stocks over-shorted by hedge funds and discovered by retail investors = meme stock (at least in many cases.