MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by klik99 | 2025-11-11 21:00:14+00:00
There's no one size fits all - what they're saying would absolutely fail at the company I'm currently at, but sounds like it works for them. The key thing is to have a process that works well for the people who are there, and hire people who work well under those conditions. The people who do well at our company would not do well at their company, and vice versa. I don't like how this article makes a claim about what works well for them is actually a universal truth. It really depends on the people there.
by cmpx | 2025-11-11 21:00:17+00:00
Great idea! Actually the mk3 of the PCB had these parts on the bottom. The reason for putting them on the top layer was that this way we can decrease the thickness of the macropad (we don't need much space between the pcb and the backplate). For now it is basically a tradeoff. One way of improvement could be, that we don't use a BLE module, but solder the MCU directly to the PCB and use smaller passive components. This way the max. height of the components could be decreased and we could put them back on the bottom. This would also mean I have to design the RF parts, which is very far outside of my knowledge.
by somat | 2025-11-11 21:00:58+00:00
I agree it is all a bit stupid, But I am feeling charitable this morning so I will give it a go.

If you wanted to create a registry of watch ownership a nft is certainly one way to go about it. and this use makes far more sense than most tokens. running on nothing more than a dream.

Really I think it is more that companies need to maintain a corp of engineers, these engineers are needed for key important projects, but a stable company is not in panic "put out the fire" mode all the time. so there is room for more speculative projects. and this is probably one of them.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-11 21:01:03+00:00
You can run the tests yourself, he describes them in the blog. Used the Is It Snappy! app to measure frames.

I tried the throughput test myself just now between the native macOS terminal and ghostty.

Ghostty: cat /tmp/lines.txt 0.00s user 0.02s system 36% cpu 0.069 total

Native mac terminal: cat /tmp/lines.txt 0.00s user 0.02s system 18% cpu 0.115 total

Seems much faster than any of the OP's windows terminals tested except for MinTTY.

Likewise in one unscientific test with Is It Snappy, ghostty took 8 frames to render the output from pressing the key, but I didn't repeat multiple times.

So, seems faster, but I know what you are talking about, I experience it too. Something about using the terminal on macOS feels sluggish compared to alternatives. It's especially noticeable for me over SSH
by fallingfrog | 2025-11-11 21:01:07+00:00
Marijuana makes me feel like im living inside of a badly written play where the script was written by a new hire at the last minute, none of the actors know their lines and the plot makes no sense. I dont like it. Alcohol gives me migraines and degrades your body.

But shrooms have low potential for addiction, no hangover and its a pleasant experience. So that's my vice of choice. I take them in moderation in social settings. I generally feel like my mood is lifted and my mind is sharp following a dose.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-11 21:01:32+00:00
Maybe I'm misunderstanding him but I think he says the music track can have hard panning, and it's the headphone playback system that should do some compensatory processing so that it sounds as if it was played on two speakers in a room.

Don't ask me how it works but I know gaming headsets try to emulate a surround setup.
by dpark | 2025-11-11 21:01:39+00:00
> It's not enough to sell 1 million phones for a good profit

This is true but also not the entire story. Apple also has to consider:

* How many of that million would we sell anyway in a non-mini version?

* What will the margin be on these relative to our other phones?

* How much of our engineering resources will be siphoned into creating yet another variant that we could use for other efforts or to make our flagship phones better?

* What’s the long term support cost for yet another variant?
by scoofy | 2025-11-11 21:01:41+00:00
>what is being done in Midway blitz isn't democratic and is bordering on autocratic

I mean, we're talking about a democratically elected government enforcing democratically decided laws. I understand your sentiment, and generally agree with you that it "feels" that way, but I think there is zero substance to that claim considering the entire process of how we got here is democratic. I don't like it, but here we are.

>Keep in mind these laws weren't enforced in this way for the past 50 years.

I mean this is demonstrably false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_from_the_United_St...

We're obviously not going to see eye to eye on this. Illegal immigration is very obviously a major concern for a huge portion of the electorate, and because of the significant polarization on the subject, nullification here is going to lead to conflict as long as the federal electorate wants to enforce those laws. I obviously think this situation is unfortunate. I'm incredibly supportive of massively expanding American immigration, but it's difficult for me to get on board with nullification.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-11 21:01:42+00:00
I don't think this is what typically happens. Many of my bug reports were handled.

For instance, I reported to the xorg-bug tracker that one app behaved oddly when I did --version on it. I was batch-reporting all xorg-applications via a ruby script.

Alan Coopersmith, the elderly hero that he is, fixed this not long after my report. (It was a real bug; granted, a super-small one, but still.)

I could give many more examples here. (I don't remember the exact date but I think I reported this within the last 3 years or so. Unfortunately reporting bugs in xorg-apps is ... a bit archaic. I also stopped reporting bugs to KDE because I hate bugzilla. Github issues spoiled me, they are so easy and convenient to use.)
by BashiBazouk | 2025-11-11 21:01:49+00:00
Back in the 80's I worked with a lady that had the north American rights for t-shirts in all things Escher. I did a good deal of the graphic arts photography (how you did prepess pre computer) for the t-shirts. got to handle the original prints of most of the common Eschers you see. They have amazing detail that you usually don't see in reproductions. I used to say a good looking halftone is a terrible halftone as part of it is compensating for ink spread. A deep black on a normal press is about 85% black, even more grey if it was going to newsprint. For the shirts we were down to 40-50% as there was considerable ink spread in the silkscreen process...
by WastedCucumber | 2025-11-11 21:01:53+00:00
> What’s really the health trade-off compared to having to monitor every tiny little thing

I'd say that there's sure a health benefit for continuing studies on microplastics. Even if they're difficult to conduct, it's probably a good idea to learn more aboht microplastics and health because, barring some new way to remove microplastics, it seems likely that the ambient concentration of them will only increase in the future.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-11 21:02:10+00:00
> The content industries should have been the ones to invent LLMs

While exclusively-controlled LLMs would be mildly useful to them, the technology existing is dangerous to them, and they already have a surplus supply of content at low cost that they monetize by controlling discovery, gatekeeping, and promotion, so I don't think it makes sense for them to put energy into LLMs even if they had the technical acumen to recognize the possibilities (much the same way that Google, despite leading in developing the underlying technology, had vvery little incentive to productize it since it was disruptive to their established business, until someone else already did and the choice was to compete on that or lose entirely.)
by leptons | 2025-11-11 21:02:19+00:00
We don't collaborate, we iterate. I'm the lead of my department, so I sst the initial direction of the new feature, discuss it with my team, assign it, and let someone build the basic functionality. Then I'll review it, and I will pick up the code and move things around, refine the UX, refine the code, and then maybe pass it back to the developer for more changes, until we arrive at something really good. It doesn't make anyone unhappy or slow us down, and we often don't know where we're going to end up when we start a new feature. Things are fluid, but we have a goal of making things easy to use. Iteration among the team members also ensures more of the team knows how the code works, and we often learn from each other. Maybe this is "collaboration" but we call it iteration.
by rahen | 2025-11-11 21:02:25+00:00
The first convolutional neural network, the Neocognitron, was AFAIK implemented on a PDP-11 as well: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Neocognitron%3A-A-neur...

No backpropagation back then, this only appeared around 1986 with Rumelhart, probably on VAX machines by that time.

The 11/34 was hardly a powerhouse (roughly a turbo XT) but it was sturdy, could handle sustained load and its FPU made the whole difference.
by freedomben | 2025-11-11 21:02:28+00:00
I'm also a software guy but started in military grade hardware.

You're correct. Stress testing alone on components and integrated modules will typically wreck consumer grade devices in a hurry. Engineering hardware to operate in extreme conditions takes significant effort and iteration. Even little things like manufacturing solder joints with no weak spots is a big task. Plus there's a lot of cost for certification, which you need at all levels.

The actual circuit design is usually the easy part
by chimeracoder | 2025-11-11 21:02:30+00:00
> Also profiles can be configured and used with CLI, no need for UI (old or new).

AFAIK, they can only be created at the command line, not configured. If you want to do things like change default settings or install extensions from the Firefox Add-On store, you can't really do that at the command line.

You can do that by mucking around in the user.js file and manually adding .xpi files to the extensions/ subfolder, but that's probably stretching the definition of "done at the command-line" since most people aren't creating Puppet modules to manage Firefox profiles.

Perhaps someone knows an easier way to do this, though.
by p1necone | 2025-11-11 21:02:55+00:00
The science is very clear on microplastics existing and being in our bodies.

The science linking that to specific outcomes/harm is almost non existent from what I understand.

Edit: to those downvoting - I'm not downplaying anything here, I agree they're concerning and we should be worried - just stating the fact that as far as I know the research on outcomes is very inconclusive at this point.
by ZeWaka | 2025-11-11 21:03:06+00:00
I don't see any infrared sensor. This makes it drastically worse than the competitors on the market, as it's an essential sensor for dust and scratch removal.

Did they not research the competition?

I can buy a brand-new 7200 (virtual) DPI machine with infrared, proper color metering, wide software support, and multi-exposure system for $400, less than half the price of this offering.

It also supports slides and single frames, whereas this has a min. of 3 in a strip.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 21:04:09+00:00
The people running the show are not the people who started and enforce the idea of an open source initiative, that's why. If most of the current administration got ousted tomorrow you'd see them pop up as senior executives in the very companies Mozilla theoretically decries.

Wolves see the community sheep build and then move in under wool coating. Doesn't mean they still are not in fact a wolf.
by vacuity | 2025-11-11 21:04:20+00:00
But if it's a real, serious issue without an easy resolution, who is the burden on? It's not that the maintainers wouldn't fix bugs if they easily could. FFmpeg is provided "as is"[0], so everyone should be responsible for their side of things. It's not like the maintainers dumped their software on every computer and forced people to use it. Google should be responsible for their own security. I'm not adamant that Google should share the patch with others, but it would hardly be an imposition to Google if they did. And yes, I really do intend that you could replace Google with any party, big or small, commercial or noncommercial. It's painful, but no one has any inherent obligations to provide others with software in most circumstances.

[0] More or less. It seems the actual language is shied from. Is there a meaningful difference?
by dorgo | 2025-11-11 21:04:28+00:00
I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).
GitLab – do you host one? Or use the cloud?
by roscas | 2025-11-11 21:04:36+00:00
I would like to know what are your experiences with GitLab, either hosted by yourself or using the cloud.

We are using Azure DevOps now but might go on the Gitlab path, so there is need to convert all pipelines and more.

Just put it on a podman container on a Rocky server but I find it 'heavy' on the cpu and ram.

Thanks.
by joering2 | 2025-11-11 21:04:42+00:00
Memories. I had first Casio sometime in 1980s at age 8 or so, and it was solar fueled. I put it under desk lamp which was probably 100W back then to charge it faster, I guess, and then the plastic deformed. Little I knew putting it into a refrigerator will not make it back to be nice and square. 8 year old. And there has been so many styles, every year to release new catalog and for so many region/countries there are different styles. I can imagine there is one person out there, a real boss-level-type dude, who has a basketball-size room with all brand new Casio watches, each one style, still unopened.
by inkysigma | 2025-11-11 21:04:47+00:00
Not being told the existence of bugs is different from having a warranty on software. How would you submit a patch on a bug you were not aware of?

Google should provide a fix but it's been standard to disclose a bug after a fixed time because the lack of disclosure doesn't remove the existence of the bug. This might have to be rethought in the context of OSS bugs but an MIT license shouldn't mean other people can't disclose bugs in my project.
Ask HN: Building Privacy-Compliant LLM Apps (e.g. Section 203 StGB)
by privacycurios | 2025-11-11 21:04:48+00:00
Hi HN, I’m working on an app that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist professionals in regulated fields like medicine and law. My main concern is ensuring compliance with privacy and secrecy regulations (e.g., Section 203 StGB in Germany or similar).

1. What are the best LLM/cloud providers for building privacy-compliant apps? I believe that directly using OpenAI and Anthropic is a no-go but I think Azure and AWS might have some agreements?

2. Are there any specific privacy-focused settings or features to enable when using these models?
by NegativeK | 2025-11-11 21:04:54+00:00
Vulnerabilities should be publicly disclosed. Both closed and open source software are scrutinized by the good and the bad people; sitting on vulnerabilities isn't good.

Consumers of closed source software have a pretty reasonable expectation that the creator will fix it in a timely manner. They paid money, and the (generally) the creator shouldn't put the customer in a nasty place because of errors.

Consumers of open source software should have zero expectation that someone else will fix security issues. Individuals should understand this; it's part of the deal for us using software for free. Organizations that are making money off of the work of others should have the opposite of an expectation that any vulns are fixed. If they have or should have any concern about vulnerabilities in open source software, then they need to contribute to fixing the issue somehow. Could be submitting patches, paying a contractor or vendor to submit patches, paying a maintainer to submit patches, or contributing in some other way that betters the project. The contribution they pick needs to work well with the volunteers, because some of the ones I listed would absolutely be rejected by some projects -- but not by others.

The issue is that an org like Google, with its absolute mass of technical and financial resources, went looking for security vulnerabilities in open source software with the pretense of helping. But if Google (or whoever) doesn't finish the job, then they're being a piece of shit to volunteers. The rest of the job is reviewing the vulns by hand and figuring out patches that can be accepted with absolutely minimal friction.

To your point, the beginning of the expectation should be that vulns are disclosed, since otherwise we have known insecure software. The rest of the expectation is that you don't get to pretend to do a nice thing while _knowing_ that you're dumping more work on volunteers that you profit from.

In general, wasting the time of volunteers that you're benefiting from is rude.

Specifically, organizations profiting off of volunteer work and wasting their time makes them an extractive piece of shit.

Stop being a piece of shit, Google.
by themafia | 2025-11-11 21:04:55+00:00
> Looking down the history of other companies that turned over responsibility of their user experience to tech companies

Just.. mirror my phone onto the display. I don't need a car companies 10 year old ideas of "user experience." Just give me a few knobs for the climate controls and then get out of my way.

I, as the user, am happy to "take responsibility" for this.
by dahart | 2025-11-11 21:05:13+00:00
Curious to hear what facts you verified with ChatGPT. I did provide some stats, and they’re sourced from the links I shared, and they do suggest 28PJ is off by an order of magnitude, and that the conclusion of 0.02% emissions might be off by as much as two orders of magnitude. What stats did you find that back up the paper’s summary?

From the technology review article:

“In analyzing both public and proprietary data about data centers as a whole, as well as the specific needs of AI, the researchers came to a clear conclusion. Data centers in the US used somewhere around 200 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, roughly what it takes to power Thailand for a year. AI-specific servers in these data centers are estimated to have used between 53 and 76 terawatt-hours of electricity. On the high end, this is enough to power more than 7.2 million US homes for a year.”

53 to 76 twh == 191 to 273 PJ, already used by AI in 2024
by BuckRogers | 2025-11-11 21:05:37+00:00
I used to think the same thing. And ya TouchID is handy sometimes over FaceID. But FaceID overall between the two if one has to choose is superior. If you haven't lived with it daily yet, I wouldn't let that stop you from getting a 13 mini. It helps a lot too with longevity, less to break. You are obviously one of us, those that keep their phones for a very long time. It never needs wiped off, it's incredibly consistent. The durability feature starts to matter when you're using something this many years. Not trying to change your mind, just share a perspective as I do understand where you're coming from for sure. You're not exactly wrong.
by onion2k | 2025-11-11 21:05:48+00:00
This sometimes leads to valuable insights, but always slows the driver down.

In cases where the insight is genuinely useful that's better than going fast mostly because you were probably going fast in the wrong direction. Ideally you would optimise collaboration to increase the likelihood of valuable feedback (because that saves more time and money) rather than optimizing for speed.

That said, I've lost track of the number of meetings I've been in so that someone can cover their ass by making something a 'collaborative decision' instead of taking responsibility, so I can totally see where the author is coming from.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-11 21:05:55+00:00
> We don't want "good enough", we want weapons that are fully capable and best-in-class.

OK...

> We should first solve for why we've allowed massive scope creep in the development of our flagship fighters, and why that scope creep has come at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars to our nation.

Because we want best-in-class, and best-in-class means "better than everything else that currently exists", and that's really hard.
by ssalmon74 | 2025-11-11 21:05:57+00:00
parameters for life. If microbes can thrive in a sustained pH of 12, without sunlight, and with scarce nutrients, it means we must seriously re-evaluate every so-called "uninhabitable" environment.This deep-sea mud might be the template for life on places like Europa or Enceladus, where life would have to rely on chemosynthesis in alkaline conditions beneath an ice shell. The universe just got a bit more crowded
by paganel | 2025-11-11 21:06:17+00:00
In case of a conventional land-war against either Russia or China (or both at the same time) good-enough will be best, because you'll need quantity, and you can't have quantity while also maintaining the "best-in-class" attribute. I think this war in Ukraine has been a great wake-up call for the Western military establishment, one which had become way too enamoured with the tech-side of things.
by wagwang | 2025-11-11 21:06:18+00:00
This is the same argument that utilitarians use to argue about how we don't have to define morals because everything is taken care of by a utilitarian calculus. The problem with that view is, even if you can define what correct for any choice (which you can't, lets be honest), you end up with a trillion parameter equation for arriving to that conclusion which makes the discussion worthless. So of course we have to rely on general truths and narratives to drive society forward, that's what your ancestors did using religion and tradition.
by Loquebantur | 2025-11-11 21:06:30+00:00
You invoke magic when you pretend, those "tests" were somehow "proof" instead of merely evidence against the claim.

Argument from authority is no valid scientific approach, neither is you putting up a straw-man (your claim how the supposed effect came to be). Just because that's how you can imagine how the "trick" might work doesn't mean, it's what's actually happening. Just because the result (dis-)pleases you doesn't mean, the experiment was done (in-)correctly.
by lone-cloud | 2025-11-11 21:06:55+00:00
You're more trackable by using NoScipt and there's no good reason to use it if you know how to properly use uBlock: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don... uBlock is a content blocker so it can do everything NoScript can if you learn its advanced UI usage. Using additional extensions makes you more trackable.