MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vablings | 2025-11-11 15:21:02+00:00
As someone who was deeply integrated into the manufacturing industry the population is not lazy.

My former company had plenty of very talented hard-working people ever at basic level jobs such as assembly, that had years of experience that could diagnose an issue with a single part without even without understanding the underlying mechanical engineering and tolerance stack-up.

My former workplaces biggest issues were pressure from other markets consuming market share and the inability of university educated salespeople to promote our unique product for the specific advantages it had over other off the shelf solutions.

Customers who understood the unique advantages always made regular business, but sales folk struggled to actually bring in any new blood. Nothing to do with the manufacturing environment (which I was largely responsible for improvements in). that was very optimized and honestly pretty low cost. I know it's absolutely a fact as for the number of CAM engineers I spoke to who always assured me there was some cycle time to be saved just for them to send me over a program that was 4x longer than our current production programs.

My biggest takeaway after leaving the UK is that it was rigged from the start and the UK is doomed to fail a sad and slow dying death since about the 1970s, well before I was born.
by NickC25 | 2025-11-11 15:21:21+00:00
>deploy weapons humanely and morally

A bit of an oxymoron there wouldn't you say?

>naively think less weapons is better

This I agree with. We should really only have a few dozen nuclear weapons, and nothing more. The whole point is to have a clear line of "DO NOT FUCKING CROSS AT ALL", and that's it. You cross us? We nuke you. We don't bother you, you don't bother us unless you want to face nuclear annihilation. Seems to work for North Korea.
by jamal-kumar | 2025-11-11 15:21:34+00:00
Liver can be pretty good if you spice it up Jamaican style. I regularly make this for people who tell me they don't like liver and they just love it. Pretty easy - Fresh and whole tumeric, ginger, garlic, onions, thyme, oregano, and as much scotch bonnet as you can handle. Soak the liver in brined water or milk for a few hrs and it will draw out a lot of the strong taste as well (French technique). Stew in some water after sautéing the onions to your liking. Same recipe works for stewing heart meat if that's something more to your liking, and it also contains a lot of the same nutrients that a lot of people are lacking in modern westernized diets. Consider what other predators do when they get to their prey: They go straight for the liver and heart.

However if you don't like the idea of trying new things, and just want something in pill form, honestly lecithin or even better citicoline is the way to go in my opinion
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 15:21:58+00:00
Abstract: Measures of regional economic sentiment, extracted from the Beige Book using natural language processing methods, consistently delivered reliable real-time forecasts of US recessions from the mid-1980s through the COVID-19 pandemic recession. Since then, recession risk probabilities have been choppy, with several false alarms. We attribute this unreliability to a post-2021 disconnect between measures of economic activity and the sentiment of business and community leaders.

Paper: https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar... | https://www.clevelandfed.org/-/media/project/clevelandfedten... [pdf] | https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-ec-202513
by gruez | 2025-11-11 15:22:22+00:00
>I don't know what to tell you other than this is well-established [1][2][3][4].

counterargument: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/30/the-data-...

https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20251101_USC...

>What about elsewhere? The Economist has adapted a model of state-level retail electricity prices from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to include data centres (see chart 2). We find no association between the increase in bills from 2019 to 2024 and data-centre additions. The state with the most new data centres, Virginia, saw bills rise by less than the model projected. The same went for Georgia. In fact, the model found that higher growth in electricity demand came alongside lower bills, reflecting the fact that a larger load lets a grid spread its fixed costs across more bill-payers.

Bloomberg's methodology seems to be "price rises are higher the closer to datacenters there are, so datacenters are causing price rises", but that seems like it's subject to all sorts of confounders, like those places being more desirable to live and therefore labor prices are higher.
Show HN: TabPref – The platform for professionals and businesses in hospitality
by tabpref | 2025-11-11 15:23:05+00:00
Hey HN, Aaron here, founder of TabPref.com .

A few months ago, I shared TabPref as a social network for the people who keep the hospitality world running: bartenders, servers, barbacks, vendors, and venue owners.

Since then, it has evolved far beyond networking.

TabPref is now an all-in-one platform for the service and hospitality industry that connects professionals, establishments, and vendors while powering real business operations.

It includes:

• Multi-profile switching for professionals, establishments, vendors, and consumers • Business Hub with scheduling, time-clock, vendor catalogs, and POS integrations such as Toast, Square, and 7shifts • Tab Chat for real-time team communication • Groups and Events for community and discovery • Jobs to help professionals find shifts and venues fill roles quickly

We are still in public beta, and user feedback continues to shape what comes next.

I recently submitted TabPref to Y Combinator to accelerate growth and bring more value to the people who keep hospitality alive.

https://tabpref.com

If you have ever worked behind the bar, managed a venue, or supplied one, I would appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

Cheers, Aaron Horne Founder, TabPref
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 15:23:10+00:00
That's a weird take. Large screens aren't primarily more "addictive", they're primarily more productive. They work as a better e-reader, a better text editor, better for watching a movie on a plane, better for reading maps, I could go on and on. (And if a company were incentivized to truly make an "addicting" phone, it would be Meta that would benefit from the social media ads, or TikTok. Not Apple.)

Large manufacturers can make them. But there isn't enough demand to make them profitable enough. It's not a question of whether they "want to pay for it", it's just simple economics. They're businesses, not charities. I like small phones, but I understand manufacturers are doing what's economically rational given market preferences and I don't blame them for it.
by verytrivial | 2025-11-11 15:23:22+00:00
Another worthy mention in this space is Linus Åkesson's dialog language[1]. From its description:

Dialog is a domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction. It is heavily inspired by Inform 7 (Graham Nelson et al. 2006) and Prolog (Alain Colmerauer et al. 1972). An optimizing compiler, dialogc, translates high-level Dialog code into Z-code, a platform-independent runtime format originally created by Infocom in 1979.

Development seems dormant at the moment, but it feels more like Inform 7 'done right' to me. If my brain was a little bigger and calmer I'd be all over it. It has excellent documentation too. Very portable -- I compiled it locally under Termux on my phone with nothing but Clang.

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/index.php
by tabpref | 2025-11-11 15:23:26+00:00
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to check out TabPref and share feedback.

Since the first post, I have learned a lot from both professionals and business owners testing the platform. What started as a social network is becoming a true operational tool for the service and hospitality industry. The early feedback has been direct, helpful, and exactly what we need to keep improving.

If anyone is interested in joining the beta, exploring integrations, or seeing how the Business Hub works, I am happy to connect or share more details.

Appreciate the continued support and perspective from this community.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-11 15:23:27+00:00
Yes, that's basically their corporate charter in a nutshell. Fox News was founded to limit the damage that a future Watergate Committee could do. Later, the Republicans realized it was much more useful than that. It gives them a fulcrum to move the Overton Window by dragging wedge issues into the limelight and making sure they stay there.
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 15:24:15+00:00
In the sense that we're trying to make buying and selling businesses as efficient as possible, yes!

however local businesses transactions have their own specific challenges, state dependent regulation, messier financials, emotional rollercoasters, a lot of secrecy, distrust, longer timeframes. It's really inaccessible for most people right now, and that's what we're trying to change.
by lysace | 2025-11-11 15:24:21+00:00
This field moves so quickly. Is this mostly pork or a strategic "they won't be useful, but building up development and production capacity is the goal" kind of thing?

Edit: Foreign perspective: Saab (Sweden) is pitching drones as a service (DaaS?) to Sweden as a way to enable short development cycles, similar to those in Ukraine, while minimizing waste due to purchasing bureaucracy.
by voakbasda | 2025-11-11 15:24:29+00:00
There are a lot of bad doctors out there. Like, dangerously bad.

If you think a doctor is wrong, they very well might be, particularly if you have already done your homework. This is not the old days, where medical knowledge is exclusively available to doctors. In fact, it is a huge risk to go in unprepared and ignorant of the possibilities, because misdiagnoses are not uncommon if critical symptoms get overlooked due to the patient not presenting them.

Ask yourself not how many doctors graduated with honors. Ask yourself how many barely graduated after cheating their way through the program and are now faking their way through life.
by rayiner | 2025-11-11 15:24:29+00:00
The issue isn’t “motivated” prosecutions, it’s prosecutors engaging in creative lawyering as if they’re corporate lawyers trying to structure an international company’s finances to evade taxes. Trump paid off a pornstar with his own company’s money to keep her from talking about an affair. That’s not illegal. It was only turned into felonies through a triple bank shot that combined a misdemeanor with multiple uncharged and unproven crimes, in what MSNBC’s legal analyst called a “grotesque legal version of Frankenstein’s monster.” https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-guilty-hus...

The prosecution against Hunter Biden, by contrast, was legally uncreative. The federal paperwork for gun purchases asks: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Biden wrote a book about how he was addicted to drugs during the same time he answered “no” to this question in buying a gun. Lying on a federal form is a felony under 18 USC 1001. It’s a slam dunk, mundane prosecution that required zero creative lawyering.

Pointing to the other cases against Trump doesn’t undo the egregious abuse of the New York criminal prosecution. If even CNN’s legal analyst has to admit that Democrat prosecutors “contorted the law” to prosecute Trump, why should anyone believe their characterizations of the other cases?
by enraged_camel | 2025-11-11 15:25:04+00:00
Speaking as someone for whom AI works wonderfully, I’ll be honest: the reason I’ve kept things to myself is because I don’t want to be attacked and ridiculed by the haters. I do want to share what I’ve learned but I know that everything I write will be picked apart with a fine toothed comb and I have to interest in exposing myself to toxicity that comes with such behavior.
by troelsSteegin | 2025-11-11 15:25:36+00:00
A big assumption with this change is that the "Modular Open Systems Approach" (MOSA) [0] [1] will be adequate for integrating new systems developed and acquired under this "fast track". MOSA appears to be about 6 years old as a mandate [2] and is something that big contractors - SAIC, BAI, Palantir [3] - talk about. But, 6 years seems brand new in this sector. I'd be curious to see if LLM's have leverage for MOSA software system integrations.

[0] https://breakingdefense.com/tag/modular-open-systems-archite...

[1] https://www.dsp.dla.mil/Programs/MOSA/

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2016-title10/USCO...

[3] https://blog.palantir.com/implementing-mosa-with-software-de...
by vablings | 2025-11-11 15:25:53+00:00
Most of the food production in the United States has been moved over from small individual farmers to large corporations. Any time there is government policy that negatively hurts farmers there is a big push from the media to show small time farmers hurting but the biggest losers are actually the much larger corporations.

Farmers are the ultimate DEI hire and are small farmers are just used as political tools, eventually if companies like John Deere keep getting away with blatant consumer rights abuses these small farmers will be completely wiped out and just left with massive corporations that heavily lobby the government for more subsidy's and free hand-outs
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-11 15:25:54+00:00
To a contemporary person their smartphone is probably the single most functionally important object they carry with them. People have always modified their clothes around common items, and then those modifications become subject to fashion trends and then eventually tradition themselves. Think like briefcases and wallets, but also japanese inro, european snuffboxes, decorative scabbards, etc.

This is more like an ancient and near universal practice being applied to a modern tool, rather than a totally new thing in itself.
by OhNoHereWeGo | 2025-11-11 15:25:59+00:00
The essence of this post is about craftsmanship, value, and caring about what you're doing. It's really hard to put this into words. There's certainly a gradient and trade-offs to be made. In most businesses, the priority is to make money. This is not bad. Business owners deserve to make money for their efforts.

It's always been the case that "bean counters" will optimize to increase profits. If you want a superior product, you have to pay for it. Particle board furniture sold at Walmart certainly wont last nearly the same way as hand-crafted pieces by Gomer Bolstrood. The contrast is dramatic. Mass produced disposable products vs one-of-a-kind products built with a high attention to detail.

The idea of paying more for quality doesn't seem to apply to software. Maybe I'm romanticizing the past, but I believe it did once. I believe that the software developers of yore cared more about their craft than most of the ones employed today. I think they had to. If a product didn't sell, it was pulled from the shelves. It would be dropped by distributors.

Somewhere along the way it's become more important to prioritize minimal time to market, and minimal viable products. People who care about software quality still exist, but they are slowly being squeezed out by others who don't. Profit, growth, and market share have become more important than providing real value to users.
by pragmatic | 2025-11-11 15:26:35+00:00
So fast forward five years and 50% of our war materials are produced in foreign countries?

I can't help but believe this is going to weaken our war footing because the dumbest people in the room are behind it. Thirsty Pete does not inspire confidence in the Department of War Thunder.

I mean on the surface it sounds good, but LEAN is why we had no PPE on hand during covid.

In order to have off the shelf supplies we are going have an active international arms market by definition. Is this what we want?
by lynguist | 2025-11-11 15:26:54+00:00
I discussed this premise with my LLM and we came to this following conclusion which I find quite elegant:

> In any bounded system under feedback, refinement produces diminishing returns and narrowing tolerance, governed by a superlinear precision cost.

> There isn’t one official name, but what you’ve articulated is essentially a unified formulation of the diminishing-returns / sensitivity-amplification law of creation — a pattern deep enough that it keeps being rediscovered in every domain that pushes against the limits of order.
by megous | 2025-11-11 15:27:08+00:00
Plug in a phone, run adb pull /storage/emulated/self/DCIM or wherever that Android garbage OS stores photos these days.

Local, doesn't need encryption since there's no middle in E2E that you need protection against, and simple.

Grandma can setup ~/.zshrc `alias bak=cd ~/phonephotos && adb pull ...` to make it even simpler.
by perihelions | 2025-11-11 15:27:44+00:00
> "Greater China"

Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them.

This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics.

> "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in nationalist contexts, such as the notion that China should reclaim its "lost territories" to create a Greater China.[17][18]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_China
by craftkiller | 2025-11-11 15:27:46+00:00
Pixel 1 was the ideal phone. Not too large. Completely flat back. Screen didn't bulge above the sides so you could drop it without shattering the screen. Google's design has only gone downhill since then. (The pixel 5 looks pretty nice, but it seems to have the bulging glass and the beginnings of camera bumps)
by gruez | 2025-11-11 15:27:58+00:00
>I give up on the clean energy narrative from America. If the goal is clean energy, then why are our leaders warning about Chinese EVs eating the world?

Goomba fallacy[1]. Within the Democratic party at least, there are at least 3 camps with different reasons for supporting/opposing EVs:

1. environmentalists, who want to reach net zero ASAP

2. "made in America" types, who want to keep encourage/retain domestic manufacturing because they think they're a source of good blue collar jobs

3. china hawks, who want to stifle china's rise

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy
by dyates | 2025-11-11 15:28:16+00:00
Interesting read! A lot of AoC challenges involve navigating 2D grids, which can map quite nicely onto the text adventure model of connected rooms with compass direction exits (a grid of straightforward little passages, all alike). This insight led me to attempt Day 6 from last year's Advent of Code in Inform 7[1], though I ultimately admitted defeat on the second half. I've always found Inform 7's Mathematics Textbook English syntax quite charming, though perhaps I would have a different perspective if I'd ever attempted to build anything substantial with it.

[1]: https://davidyat.es/2024/12/23/aoc-2024-part2/#day-6-python-...
by testing22321 | 2025-11-11 15:28:40+00:00
I used to regularly ride my bike to work at -40C.

Once you’ve had a few weeks of that, you only need a little jacket at -20c.

Yukon, Canada.

It’s all relative.

The coldest I ever went walking in was -48c just below the arctic circle in November, not counting wind chill. I’ve also hung out in +48C a couple of times. Still hoping I can get a hundred degree temperature swing.
Show HN: PocketWise – a simple, natural-language double-entry finance tracker
by ashish01 | 2025-11-11 15:28:42+00:00
Working on pocket wise. Yet another personal finance tracker :)

I started with double entry accounting using hledger and it was always great financial realization but I would stop using it after a couple of weeks. So I started writing a web interface for my ledger file, with the intent to make it simple enough that I actually stick with it. This became pocket wise over time.

Pocketwise does not need need any bank credentials, instead you do the data entry.

But to make it easier you can type (or say) natural language descriptions of your expenses like - "Chipotle $15 cash" or "Netflix 19.89 Apple Card" and it will store them as double entries like

2025-11-11 Chipotle Expenses:Food & Dining $15.00 Assets:Cash $-15.00 2025-11-11 Netflix Expenses:Subscriptions $19.89 Liabilities:Credit Card:Apple Card $-19.89

It has a 7 days free trail, if you decide to use it, I would love to hear your feedback. Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. :)
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-11 15:28:50+00:00
Little of column A, little of column B.

The only way you don't see the value of drones is if you were knocked into a coma in January 2022 and just woke up. The US can make good weaponry if it keeps the usual bureaucratic shitheadery and cronyism to a manageable level. Only time will tell if that plays out.
by eig | 2025-11-11 15:29:07+00:00
Be rest assured Ben’s previous job was in the medial imaging industry. While he worked on MRI machines rather than ionizing radiation, I think he’s very well aware of the dangers of X rays and has many projects dealing with ionizing radiation. There’s a lot of bad safety science YouTubers, Ben isn’t one of them :)

Funny thing: it’s actually rare to get radiation damage to human hands and feet since there’s not too much growing tissue there!
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-11 15:29:09+00:00
>what will happen to all of the microorganisms which spent a great deal of energy evolving ways to metabolize plastics that suddenly lose that source of energy?

As the article implies, microorganisms evolve relatively quickly. So the answer is, they would evolve to consume another source of energy. (As has happened for the subjects of the article in the opposite direction.)
by sbuttgereit | 2025-11-11 15:29:10+00:00
I do a lot of Elixir programming, which is different and not at the same time :-) . What I find is that it takes me longer to write the initial code than I might in, say, JavaScript, but that the refactoring and ongoing maintenance of code is significantly faster. This is because I think the functional & actor paradigms force you to think harder upfront, but once those decisions are made are easier to manipulate. For me personally, I'd take that trade since I'm either refactoring or maintaining much more frequently... but I understand there are other considerations which could drive a different preference.

Also, I'm sure my personal experience isn't necessarily true for everyone... so weight this anecdote accordingly.
by echelon | 2025-11-11 15:29:31+00:00
This order should come with a mandate to build domestic manufacturing capacity.

The drones aren't important. The manufacturing capacity is.

America should be using every opportunity it can to subsidize reindustrialization. Especially for key industries, components and inputs, places where we make our money, critical supply chain items we rely upon, and dual use / defense tech.

Everything important. Machining, electronics, chemicals and plastics, pharmaceuticals...

It's going to be painful to play 20 years of catch up. But we need to bite the bullet and do it.

This is where subsidy and government purchases can really help.
by parineum | 2025-11-11 15:29:48+00:00
> But what changed is the disastrous Trump v. United STates [5] decision last year that granted almost absolute presidential immunity. Now there's not the slightest fear of repercussions so the whole operation has gone into overdrive and it's so incredibly brazen.

That really has nothing to do with it. The pardon power and it's discretion is well established to rest solely in the hands of the President. There can be no consequences for pardons otherwise, the Clinton things you mention would have led to something.

As far a fines go, if the 2B savings under DOGE was nothing, 1B of lost fines (which would probably have never been collected anyway due to negligence or bankruptcy) is nothing as well.