MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teleforce | 2025-11-23 01:44:24+00:00
The sub-GHz Suzi is for LPWAN or Low Power Wide Area Network, similar to LoRa, SigFox and Wi-Fi HaLow.

LoRa PHY is proprietary by Semtech but LoRaWAN the data link layer is open, that's why the manufacturers aren't just making LoRa radios.

SigFox is full-stack proprietary LPWAN solution but the founding company already went south.

Currently the main open standard alternative to LoRa is IEEE Wi-Fi HaLow.

The main problem with these LPWAN standards, however, is that all of them struggling with limited Line-of-Sight (LoS) or Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) LoS environment that's very common in LPWAN. For example LoRa is very low power but its limited chirp spread spectrum (CSS) based modulation is bad for any limited LoS environment. In addition, its spreading factor (SF) only work for a single channel per user.

I'm now working on the LPWAN PHY alternative that's much better for very limited LoS than LoRa. Looking forward to benchmark against Suzi.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-11-23 01:44:31+00:00
> By your and OP's logic, nothing should be done to subsidize anything or make people's lives more affordable because the excess will be sucked up by landlords.

That seems pretty reasonable to me actually? When housing is so supply-constrained, any subsidies/incentives/bonuses/etc. will be captured by the owner of the scarcest asset (real estate). Building more housing at this point seems like it should be a P0 priority before anything else.
by gmm1990 | 2025-11-23 01:46:57+00:00
The whole point is that the outages happened not that the ai code caused them. If ai is so useful/amazing then these outages should be less common not more. It’s obviously not rock solid evidence. Yeah ai could be useful and speed up or even improve a code base but there isn’t any evidence that that’s actually improving anything the only real studies point to imagined productivity improvements
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-23 01:47:03+00:00
> This is the type of system that is the a indirect byproduct of the change towards AI - it may not have been what AM was originally intending with the AI Max 395+ line - but it definitly is the kind of optimized thinking that will drive AI into the hands of consumers.

it literally was intended for exactly that, it has AI in the name of the cpu, and it was from the get go targeted at AI and GPU heavy workloads (3D rendering etc)
by xpe | 2025-11-23 01:53:05+00:00
What is the benefit of injecting one’s “take” on what level of hype exists when thinking about the OP’s exploration into agentic development?

Better to step back and just look at what exists for what it is? Strive for a less biased take.

The pieces are rapidly changing, non-standard, fragmented, and exploratory. If true, jumping in involves risks from chaos, churn, rushing, unproveness (sp?), etc
by karakoram | 2025-11-23 01:53:07+00:00
Don't expect anything materially to change in the right direction any time soon. China has built this position slowly over the last 3-4 decades.

The expertise, talent, and investment needed to bring that level of sourcing, processing, and refining to the West will also take decades.

In those decades, you will see governments in the US/West change several times, each with their own approach and policies. There will be no central, consistent policy further causing delays.

All the while China has all the leverage and the cards. Additionally, they have a lot of influence in every country with even remote levels of viable deposits.

Lastly you have the problem of greedy western corporations. Do you really think Rare Earths produced by US/Western firms will be sold at the same rates as the Chinese counterpart?

So to conclude, forget it. Just another smokescreen, like the tariffs.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-23 01:53:52+00:00
I wasn't able to find any information on how exactly that reclassification is happening. Everyone just quotes that one sentence by the Federal Minister of the Interior that they are doing it.

My best guess is that they don't see a chance to get a law to this effect passed (see also the note about the other related bill being postponed), so they are taking some measure that's in the existing jurisdiction of the ministry. That might be the ministry passing regulations to this effect, or the federal police trying to declare date rape drugs as illegal weapons
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 01:54:31+00:00
The fuel cost of a NPP has almost no impact on the NPP's operational expenses and a LFTR (like all liquid fuel designs) is a far safer design. Nobody in the energy industry has talked about the fuel cost in nuclear in 50 years. It isn't even a consideration when comparing designs. Waste volume, safety, politics, and construction labor costs are the factors which are considered (also temp of the heat maybe).
by class3shock | 2025-11-23 01:54:41+00:00
There is nothing here to say it being a maintenance issue is doubtful. It could quite literally be a similar issue to Flight 191, we don't know yet.

It did have ample engineering reserve beyond the load it was subject to... before fatigue damage initiated a crack which then grew until there was no reserve left. The question is why the fatigue crack initiated prematurely? Maintenance damage? Analysis mistake? We don't know yet.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-23 01:54:49+00:00
Medicare (US) doesn't cover skilled nursing or long-term care. Medicaid did cover LTC for means-tested individuals, but a significant fraction of that is going away after the midterms to give tax breaks to billionaires. It's going to be a shitshow beyond 2026 and it's only going to get Gilded Age 2.0 worse with massive increasing numbers of elderly homeless people from here on out. Denying healthcare and care is going to kill a lot of people.
by airstrike | 2025-11-23 01:55:23+00:00
Just because they are "[generally] known" for not having artistic skills doesn't mean there can't be a few exceptions.

Besides, they could be known for this and it could be a misconception! The sentence is still true.

Finally, "full stop" is what you say when something isn't up for debate. It's like saying "Apple makes better hardware, period." Like the conversation ends there. It doesn't mean you stop reading.
by ameliaquining | 2025-11-23 01:56:47+00:00
It does; the code will still type-check without the satisfies operator. satisfies lets you say "if this value doesn't conform to this type then I want that to be an immediate compile error, even if it would otherwise be okay". Which isn't needed all that often since usually getting the type wrong would produce a compile error elsewhere, but occasionally it proves useful. When designing the feature they collected some use cases: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/47920
by fooker | 2025-11-23 01:59:24+00:00
The economics for something like MS teams is not what you'd expect.

It has to be good enough that other options are not worth the hassle to switch over to, for enterprise customers. The quality doesn't matter in the slightest, because making it 5-10% better would cost double or triple.

Where quality does matter for these customers, backward compatibility, Microsoft does pretty well.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-11-23 02:02:28+00:00
> some guy who practically did no work but comes from the same state your manager does,

I took over a unit where 80% of the engineers were from one state, and mostly from the same college as the previous hiring manager.

There was one particular misfit - competent engineer but didn't have any skills for my BU.

I tried to transfer him to the hiring manager's new unit, and he refused. So I told him I would have to fire the misfit. Guess what, the next day he found a req and took the misfit.

This was a pattern everywhere I worked. So when I was able to dictate hiring policies, one rule was that we would never visit the same college twice in row. This of course made me very unpopular with HR. Now they had to work harder to maintain connections with placement departments.
by iteria | 2025-11-23 02:02:58+00:00
But that's absolutely the case. You get on a project and someone falls ill or has to take care of someone ill. Or they're shit at their job. Or they're just not as dedicated as you. It doesn't matter if they get fired or accommodated, you have to get it done. You will be punished in some what for not getting it done, whether that is directly or indirectly. Group projects exist in any job with collaboration. You rarely get to choose your group unlike in school and at least proving someone is a slacker has a high chance of impact in school. It's not always the case at all at work.

People discount school rituals, but they happen a lot. Pop quizzes happen all the time within my career. You don't always get to say, "I'll get back to you" as much as we all wish that was true.
by WJW | 2025-11-23 02:03:26+00:00
Tim Ferris once made the point that at an incidence rate of psychotic episodes (~26 per 100.000 people) compared to expected influencer reach (several million if you're doing well), statistically you are expected to have a few dozen severely mentally ill people in your audience. Several of those may project you to be the cause of all their problems, even if you are literally the most wholesome person in the world just because they are not experiencing reality in a sensible way at the moment.

Link: https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
by cbsks | 2025-11-23 02:03:51+00:00
Wow. SubC’s software engineering needs some work. They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted. They didn’t know where the keys were to decrypt it. It turned out the key was written unencrypted to a UFS storage device. There was a file written to /mnt/nas/Stills, which indicates that the camera was to writing to a remote file system that wasn’t mounted.
by tim333 | 2025-11-23 02:06:02+00:00
The US had a similar but not identical reactor in the 60s, the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

It had uranium-233 from breeding from thorium in other reactors.

The main problem with these things is they seem very unprofitable. The US reactor ran from 1964 to 1969 and produced a small amount of power but is still running about $10m a year in decommissioning costs. You thing you can run these things a while and think it's over but:

>Sampling in 1994 revealed concentrations of uranium that created a potential for a nuclear criticality accident, as well as a potentially dangerous build-up of fluorine gas: the environment above the solidified salt was approximately one atmosphere of fluorine. The ensuing decontamination and decommissioning project was called "the most technically challenging"...
by WalterBright | 2025-11-23 02:06:53+00:00
> especially when your old friends mock and ridicule you for caring about something absolutely pointless.

My dad flew 32 missions over Germany. He watched men die. 80% of his cohort did not return. He expected to die and made his peace with it. He told me once that when he returned home, he was struck by the trivial problems people had and obsessed over. After all, they weren't flying a mission tomorrow with near certain death.

He said whenever he felt down, he'd recall the men that never had a chance to grow old, and his problems would melt away.
by mmaunder | 2025-11-23 02:06:57+00:00
Panorama gen via 2d diffusion inpainting, to point cloud lifting to 3d, to 2d inpainting conditioned on rendered point clouds, to optimization of a 3d gaussian splatting scene. It's image gen stitched into 3D. Not a conceptual world model. I hate the ambiguity of the term.
by crabmusket | 2025-11-23 02:07:19+00:00
If we assume, as many do, that we are going to delegate the work of "understanding the code" to AI in the coming years, this surely becomes even more important.

AI writing code and commit messages becomes a loop divorced from human reasoning. Future AIs will need to read the commit history to understand the evolution of the code, and if they're reading poor summaries from other AIs it's just polluting the context window.

Commit messages are documentation for humans and machines.
by watersb | 2025-11-23 02:09:05+00:00
The SD card on the camera was intact but encrypted. Decrypting the data required a key stored on a separate SOM board, but the SOM was damaged. The investigation team delivered the SOM and SD card to the camera manufacturer in Newfoundland, and they were able to decrypt the card.

They found a couple of images, but

No data with a timestamp after May 16th was found on the camera, so it is likely that none of the data recorded on the SD Card were of the accident voyage or dive.

After all that work...

If you're interested in data recovery, you will enjoy reading this report, about 10 pages, clearly written. The technical language mentioned they didn't see a LUKS header on the card so they figured it was a custom dm_crypt setup.
by wk_end | 2025-11-23 02:09:34+00:00
There's nothing I can do about the standard JavaScript library, but in terms of code I have influence over, I very simply would not write a difficult-to-type method like Array.prototype.flat(), if I could help it. That's what I mean by an XY Problem - why are we writing this difficult-to-type method in the first place and what can we do instead?

Let's suppose Array.prototype.flat() wasn't in the standard library, which is why I'm reviewing a PR with this gnarly type in it. If I went and asked you why you needed this, I guess you'd say the answer is: "because JavaScript lets me make heterogenous arrays, which lets me freely intermix elements and arrays and arrays of arrays and... in my arrays, and I'm doing that for something tree-like but also need to get an array of each element in the structure". To which I'd say something like "stop doing that, this isn't Lisp, define an actual data type for these things". Suddenly this typing problem goes away, because the type of your "flatten" method is just "MyStructure -> [MyElements]".
by hu3 | 2025-11-23 02:10:27+00:00
This is like GTP 2 of World Gen.

10 years from now we might have games that generate entire worlds based on the unique story line that's customized for each playthrough. Maybe even endless stories.

Baldur's Gate 5 is going to be memorable!

The Elder's Scrolls could use this + Radiant AI for some neat quests when it improves.

Game studios are probably going to explore this in dungeon generators first where if things go wrong with the generation, not much is lost. Just exit and generate another.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-23 02:10:35+00:00
I think this article is also talking about things like replacement batteries for things like e-scooters, power tools, garden tools, vacuum cleaners, and so on. The original ones are quite expensive, and there are dozens of 3rd party batteries for popular items like Dyson vacuums and Ryobi 40V garden tools. I believe most if not all of these consist of a bunch of 18650 inside a plastic case with a charging connector.
by chris_armstrong | 2025-11-23 02:10:48+00:00
I think this because nonprofits are subject to a similar market discipline as companies: they compete for funding, relevance, market share etc.

And their board composition converges similarly as those same people are relied upon for their connections to fundraise, hire, etc. They don’t want to be seen taking an unusual strategy as it would be perceived as risky and jeopardising precious donated funds, so the same groupthink emerges.

Even if someone outside these circles was hired, they’d be knocked down with the smallest misstep, with the veiled criticism they weren’t suitable for the position (ie someone with better connections should have been chosen), so even they will fall into line.
by virgil_disgr4ce | 2025-11-23 02:11:15+00:00
OK, I want to meet these guys. This writeup has several breathtaking (if you will) passages. Like:

> "We found different scents by steering the beam over ~14 mm (20 degrees at 4 cm radius). The distance between freshness and burning was ~3.5 mm."

> "The olfactory system potentially allows writing up to 400, if not 800 due to two nostrils, dimensions into the brain. That is comparable to the dimensionality of latent spaces of LLMs, which implies you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space."

This just makes me grin with total delight. Completely freaking fascinating.
by daemonologist | 2025-11-23 02:11:17+00:00
Well they're encrypting an SD card, so this still defends against its being removed from the camera and stolen or left in a bar or something.

But honestly from the rest of the story it sounds like the camera manufacturer was selling their pressure housing moreso than the off-the-shelf camera hardware inside, and was not particularly concerned with whether/how the storage was encrypted.
by sowbug | 2025-11-23 02:11:44+00:00
I'm not sure whether we're disagreeing all that much. Your examples are of low-quality results. From a user's point of view, the one and only job of a search engine is to surface high-quality results, especially if it's hard for the engine to tell.

But the incentive for search engines to pick profitable results over quality results has only gotten stronger over time.

Just imagine a world where your one-person, part-time, labor-of-love guitar-maintenance blog were the top search result, simply because it had the best content. Democratizing access to information was the original promise of the web. I don't think we're there anymore, and I don't think it's correct to let search engines off the hook because their lucrative job has gotten harder.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-23 02:11:52+00:00
The usual reminders apply: you can allege pretty much anything in such a brief, and "court filing" does not endow the argument with authority. And, the press corps is constrained for space, so their summary of a 230-page brief is necessarily lacking.

The converse story about the defendants' briefs would have the headline "Plaintiffs full of shit, US court filing alleges" but you wouldn't take Meta's defense at face value either, I assume.

https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/2025-11-21-Brief-dckt-2480...
by SanjayMehta | 2025-11-23 02:12:00+00:00
When I used to read fiction, I would visualise the story as a movie. I don't know if there's a name for this effect. Sometimes I can rewind the story in my head as a movie. Maybe that's whats going on? I don't know.

Found a non-scribd link:

https://www.coachmyrna.org/blog/in-the-final-moments-of-his-...
by crabmusket | 2025-11-23 02:12:23+00:00
This is great advice.

> There's no need to justify that your changes are "in accordance with best practices", tell a story about "ongoing efforts" (unless you actually have other recent commits that you want to group together like that conceptually), etc.

LLMs are very prone to generalisation and marketing language like this. Despite being sycophants, they are also trained to speak as if they constantly have to justify and persuade.

This is called out in the Wikipedia meta I linked to in another comment. They're great red flags to look out for in any writing; humans, myself included, often used this kind of lazy construction!
by chihuahua | 2025-11-23 02:12:58+00:00
The conventional wisdom here on HN is that every single item sold on Amazon is fake, without exception.

Realistically, there are probably some legit 18650s and lots of fake ones. But it could be difficult to figure out which ones are legit before buying them. Co-mingling of warehouse stock is often cited as a reason why this is impossible: a legitimate seller may list their items, and then some sellers of fakes come along and state that they are selling the same SKU, and Amazon will mix all of these in a single bin in the warehouses, and you don't know which one you're getting in your order.
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-23 02:13:11+00:00
The law being written does not prevent changing it[0]. Someone changed the written law once to add these weapon-specific provisions, they can do it again. And unless the optimal provisions for date rape drugs are identical to those for weapons, they probably should do it again.

[0] It might actually be easier to change a properly written law. I hate our stupid precedent-based system in the US.
by nativeit | 2025-11-23 02:13:35+00:00
The problem we’re falling into under this (ostensibly accurate) point is when we start making this a game, where fingerprinting is either “100% effective and insidious”, or “can’t be 100% certain 100% of the time, so it’s ineffective and nobody will use it against me”.

The point is that a sufficiently motivated actor could use a very broad array of tactics, some automated and some manual, to identify, observe, track, and/or locate a target. Maybe they can’t pin you down with your browser fingerprints because you’ve been smart enough to use tools that obfuscate it, but that’s not happening in a vacuum. Correlating one otherwise useless datapoint that happens to persist long enough to tie things together at even low-ish confidence is still a hugely worthwhile sieve with which to filter people out of the possibility pool.

The problem isn’t that it doesn’t affect most average people, or that it it’s terribly imprecise. The problem is that it’s even a little effective, while being nearly impossible to completely avoid. It’s also a problem if that’s used by a malicious state actor against a journalist, to pick a rather obvious example. Because even in isolation, this kind of violation of civil liberties necessarily impacts all of society.

The public should be given more information and control, broadly speaking, for when they are asked to trade their rights for convenience, security, and/or commerce. In particular, I think the United States has allowed bad faith arguments against regulatory actions and basic consumer rights so corporate lobbyists can steamroll any chance of even baseline protections. It would behoove all of us to be more distrustful of companies and moneyed interests, while being more engaged with, and demanding of, our governments.
by javicacheiro | 2025-11-23 02:14:05+00:00
Asking chatgpt seems more useful than reading the article ;-)

- Too light: Counterfeit batteries often weigh less because they use smaller or inferior cells.

- Overheating or fast discharge: Fake batteries often fail to hold charge properly and heat up quickly.

- Use a charger to measure actual capacity. If it’s far below the claimed value, it’s fake.

- Use a multimeter to check actual voltage. If it’s far off from the expected range (e.g., below 3.0V or above 4.2V per cell), the battery might be damaged or fake.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-23 02:15:11+00:00
I'm pretty senior and I just don't find it very useful. It is useful for certain things (deep code search, writing non-production helper scripts, etc.) and I'm happy to use it for those things, but it still seems like a long way off for it to be able to really change things. I don't foresee any of my coworkers being left behind if they don't adopt it.
by ac29 | 2025-11-23 02:15:26+00:00
>While homemade rice and pinto beans is $9.26

At Whole Foods prices, $4.29 gets you 8000 calories of rice. Beans are more expensive per calorie but still very cheap. $9 would get you more beans and rice than a family of four could eat in an entire day.

Bought in bulk its even cheaper.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-23 02:16:04+00:00
I guess they are much better than I am. I remember working on a team at Microsoft where the product took 8 hours to build, and on my own dev machine I made several attempts but never got the build to finish successfully. I worked around the problem by taking a known good build from the build master and integrating the part I was working on into that build. But the experience left me thinking "good luck with that" for building more complex products from scratch.