MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillMorr | 2025-11-10 03:29:25+00:00
I've actually done clear prints with LEDs installed. The bottom is much brighter than the top and it just look kinda tacky. I briefly hollowed out the supports and tried running fiber optics but it didn't help much.

I'm realizing now that I tried a lot of weird shit during this project that just did not work at all or make it into the final product, I should do another video just of all my failed abomination marble runs.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 03:29:55+00:00
>You’re abusing the use of the word “acceptable” to indicate endorsement rather than toleration.

Okay. How many Americans being murdered, beaten and deported without warrant, due process or oversight, all in explicit and direct violation of the Constitution are you willing to tolerate. Ten? A hundred? A hundred thousand? Provide a specific number of illegal (as the Constitution is the supreme law of the land) acts by ICE that you are willing to tolerate.

And would that number change if you and/or your family are among those?[1]

As for me, I won't tolerate any violations of the rights of those protected by the law. Because we're supposed to live in a society of laws, not unaccountable, masked thugs who can act with impunity -- regardless of the goal.

The ends do not justify the means.

Want to be "tough" on those who have committed a civil infraction (overstaying their visas -- the vast majority of those who aren't here on valid documents) and on those who evaded border security (a misdemeanor). Fine. Then do so without harassing, beating and murdering folks, including those who don't have valid residence documents/visas -- as the penalty for such things is a fine and a short jail stay, then removal to their home country -- and certainly not creating a "papers please"[0] police state in our free and open society.

That's not the society I've lived in for more than half a century. Nor is it one I wish to live in.

Why do you want to live in such a society? No. Really. I'd like to understand why you want to live in a police state. Do tell.

>Given that a system is necessary,

Which system is "necessary"? We never (for 250 years) had to have masked thugs maiming, murdering and disappearing my fellow Americans before. Why is that? Because it's illegal and an explicit violation of Constitutional rights.

Why is it "necessary" now?

[0] So you want to have a society like the USSR, East Germany and the like, where masked, anonymous police can demand identity documents without warrants, probable cause or exigent circumstance and even if you produce such they can ignore them and abduct you off the street without recourse?

[1] Let's deport you and your family to CECOT "by accident." Oh gee. Sorry, lurk2. But our app says you're a dangerous alien. No, you don't get a lawyer or in front of a judge -- you're illegal, you don't have rights -- even though the Constitution says that all people in the US are entitled to due process.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-11-10 03:30:35+00:00
You'd be surprised. I live in a state most SFers consider the middle of nowhere, and my friends and I make more in absolute terms than most SF companies offer (excepting the top tier). 90k is not much more than entry level IT pay here, even new grads make more.

Of course, you can't just work on CRUD apps or mobile apps, you have to build up domain knowledge of the business.
by exidy | 2025-11-10 03:31:30+00:00
There was an override system, MCAS drove the stabiliser trim motors and so flipping the stabiliser trim motor cutout switches would disable MCAS. This relied on the pilots diagnosing an MCAS runaway as a stabiliser trim runaway and enacting the same checklist.

However, to add insult to injury, the MAX also had another change. In the 737 NG, there were two switches, one would disable automated movement of stabiliser trim, the other would cutout the electric trim motors entirely. This allowed the pilots to disable automation without losing the ability to trim the aircraft using the switches on the yoke.

The MAX changed this arrangement, now either switch would cut power to electric trim. Tragically the pilots of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 recognised the runaway, enacted the correct checklist, but the aircraft was now so far out of trim that aerodynamic loads made correcting the situation using the hand trim crank impossible. In desperation the pilots restored electrical power to the trim motors, MCAS re-engaged and drove the aircraft into the ground.
by gruez | 2025-11-10 03:31:31+00:00
>To the people at the top, the job market is a statistic. They can't feel empathy on an issue they're so disconnected from, so they just think it's not their problem, or there isn't much they can do about it.

Who are the "people at the top" you speak of? Are they just an amorphous blob of executives and politicians?

>Technological innovation is supposed to mean society can produce more with less work, so in theory everyone's lives could end up better off over time where we could all work less and get more, but in practice, I see more meaningless work created and wealth continues to consolidate at the top.

Yes, if you're willing to accept pre-industrial revolution levels of living standards, you can probably get away with hours of work per week with modern technology, but people want iPhones and 5G internet, so they can complain on HN.
by StellarScience | 2025-11-10 03:31:40+00:00
We paused hiring fresh grads, but still hire interns, and those who prove themselves get full-time offers. We've found internships to be a great pipeline to great hires over the years.

We've had several candidates with completed bachelor's degrees apply for internships, prove themselves, and get full-time jobs that way. This "back door" job hiring pathway might work elsewhere as well.
by snvzz | 2025-11-10 03:31:49+00:00
Do not miss the latest seL4 summit's state of seL4 talk by Gernot Heiser[0], which besides providing an update on the work done this year, goes into performance[1].

This is real world throughput and latency seL4 is crushing Linux on, not some synthetic IPC benchmark.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP48V34lDhk

1. https://youtu.be/wP48V34lDhk?t=1199
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-10 03:31:54+00:00
Thanks! And I've seen Dave's tests. Since I don't need a fixed angle, do need to maximize production (due to a limited sun horizon), and only have 10 panels, the best option is adjusting angle during winter. The N-S orientation is a really poor performer. (Notice that his test is 30-degree tilt vs N-S; 60-degree tilt will provide 20-25% more power than 30-degree at my latitude, without even considering bifacials w/snow. The only thing that would produce more is an active tracker, but I've got other things to do, and a December deadline...)
by tdb7893 | 2025-11-10 03:32:09+00:00
Yeah, I'm employed as a research assistant as part of the Master's program currently. There are jobs in government, non-profits, and academia potentially after. I've never loved money (except for the flexibility having it gives me) so I have several hundred thousand saved up after a decade of engineering so while grad school is an 82% cut in pre-tax pay I can withdraw 1% a year from my investments and live fine. Even once I'm out of school my pay will never as good as it was in engineering but I'll be happier presumably.

I'm still figuring out exactly what the research will be but the plan is essentially data science applied to bird migration patterns (lots of statistics and modelling currently). Overall if you like birds and don't like money apparently a strong math/tech background is potentially useful for ecology research with the idea that's it's easier to teach me about birds than teach an animal science person data science and programming (though I did take an undergrad ecology class before applying to ecology programs).
by jay_kyburz | 2025-11-10 03:32:16+00:00
Every country should be able to defend itself, without reliance on allies, as a national priority. If this means building cars, ships, tanks, and planes, then that infrastructure should be built and maintained at taxpayers expense.

Whats more, you need to have market forces within your own country so competition can deliver you the best products. You can't just fund one ship building company, you need to roll the dice on a handful. Every now and then you have to prune back the organizations that are not working, and give a shot to startups to see if they can do better.

If you can't tell, I believe in big, transparent, government.
by Genego | 2025-11-10 03:32:29+00:00
For the past 2 months I have been doing a heavy deep dive into image generation and image generation editing capabilities. This then had me discover that you can generate storyboards for short stories, and automate the creation of these as videos with video generation models. This is a topic that interests me heavily, and as such I am now building my own workflows around that. I am documenting the entire journey here:

https://edwin.genego.io/blog

https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio

https://edwin.genego.io/blog/ai-branding

It's not something I am looking to commercialize, but I actually did drop out of film school (with semesters in creative storytelling) to pursue software 15 years ago. And I feel like this will open up a whole new way of visual storytelling as well as personal and product branding. I have gotten quite some emails about it, from interesting people in different industries, as some more strongly worded (not so nice) emails from someone in the VFX industry since I started. Its by far one of the most interesting tangents I have ever went on.
by mmooss | 2025-11-10 03:32:36+00:00
I read about the US Navy's work on autonomous ships. One big challenge is the lack maintenance. Sailors can perform periodic and break-fix maintenance throughout the journey, and if something unpredictable happens, they can handle it.

The autonomous vessels need far higher robustness, not only to function without maintenance for months at a time, but reliably enough that few of them end up lost or stranded at sea.
by hlfshell | 2025-11-10 03:32:40+00:00
Just launched a startup/life style business where I use AI to help people practice for upcoming interviews - https://hiredcoach.ai

Already have been told by some users that the interview prep they got from it has correctly predicted several of the actual interview questions they got, crediting its prep for their breezing through the interview rounds.

I'm really hoping it helps a lot of people!
by anonym29 | 2025-11-10 03:32:55+00:00
The optimal approach appears domain specific and granular, too.

As for domain specificity:

I don't know any Europeans who'd prefer to have American healthcare.

I don't know any European technology companies that hold a candle to the sheer breadth and depth of capabilities brought into the world by Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, OpenAI, or Anthropic.

Yes, Mistral, Nokia, OVH, and SAP exist, but compared to the alternarives, they exist in the way the American healthcare system exists compared to its alternatives.

As for granularity:

Perhaps we want American style governance for building the tech, but then European style governance for running it?
by alephnerd | 2025-11-10 03:33:03+00:00
Gold prices are wonky right now because it was Diwali [0] and India did a large GST reform [1] that unlocked consumer capital for gold.

Once Diwali ended a couple weeks ago, Gold prices slumped [2].

The same thing happened with Silver [3].

You used to see similar stuff happen around CNY back when China was growing at double digit speeds [4].

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/27/indians-spend-up-to-11-b...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/winners-losers-indias-sw...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/gold-s-re...

[3] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-18/sold-out-...

[4] - https://ecomod.net/system/files/gold_and_china_ecomod2013.pd...
by inopinatus | 2025-11-10 03:33:10+00:00
Blog spam doesn’t intersperse the drivel with literary narrative beats and subsection titles that sound like sci-fi novels. The greasy mixture of superficially polished but substantively vacuous is much more pronounced in LLM output than even the most egregious human-generated content marketing, in part because the cognitive entity in the latter case is either too smart, or too stupid, to leave such a starkly evident gap.
by hypeatei | 2025-11-10 03:34:44+00:00
I'm of the opinion that things like shipbuilding don't really matter in times of war for countries with nuclear weapons. There would be dire consequences for anyone invading and/or blockading a nuclear armed country.

A lot of people seem to yearn for the "good old days" where we built giant, tangible things that did cool stuff. That's fine, but the "national security" arguments ring hollow as you're basically saying all institutions, intelligence agencies, defense agencies, etc. are asleep at the wheel if it truly is a threat... which I guess is possible but highly unlikely.
by porknubbins | 2025-11-10 03:34:58+00:00
Cars like Jaguar and Land Rover have famously bad electrical systems. But just saying quality issues doesn’t really get to the heart of the issue. Bad quality at one company is one thing, but if you’re arguing bad quality happened across a whole industry or country, and its the country that started the industrial revolution and could come up with the Rolls Royce Merlin when it needed to, there has to be a deeper reason. I don’t know it unions were the whole story, as really only Germany or Germanic countries have ever had great quality control for cars in Europe, but there must be some systemic reason.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-11-10 03:35:27+00:00
> My side is functioning democracy at this point, and that's what the Democrats are risking with this shutdown.

Which side is yours? Hopefully not the side fighting in n court to take back SNAP benefits already distributed to needy families.

How are the Democrats putting democracy at risk when they cannot control any branch of government? And all their attempts to appease Republicans end up with Republicans pushing further anyway?
by sefrost | 2025-11-10 03:35:30+00:00
The economic situation in the UK has become bizarre.

I would recommend interested HNers to read up on the State Pension Triple Lock; and the various income tax cliff edges as some key examples.

With respect to the income tax, it is possible for higher earning (not by US standards) employees to receive a bonus and actually take home less money than before they received the bonus.

The triple lock is a politically motivated policy which always grows the state pension (given to essentially all UK citizens and anybody that ever worked there for more than 3 years) at a rate faster than earnings grow or faster than the economy grows. It will subsume the entire government budget.

Given the extremely high cost of energy, and housing in many places, younger people also seem to be opting out entirely. Disability payments the government pays are increasing at a rapid rate. (1 in 13 of the population are currently receiving this benefit).
by manquer | 2025-11-10 03:36:31+00:00
As a bibliophile, I wish there were true.

The low cost editions are significantly poor quality prints, smaller fonts crappy ligatures, margins line heights- all to squeeze it into less pages, poorer paper, monochrome, laxer quality control -it is not uncommon for few pages to have minor defects .

I appreciate the effort to make something available for that cheap, but they are bad.

It is like business class and economy on a flight. You both go to same destination at the same time sure but the journey is widely different, if you don’t care about the journey it is waste of money yes, but it cannot be denied there is a reason why it is expensive.

In this analogy hard bound would be first class . Mostly unavailable and truly a luxury.
by gruez | 2025-11-10 03:36:37+00:00
>My uneducated guess is that if a remote operator has a bad day, there is nothing stopping them from doing damage on potentially sensitive and expensive assets and then disappearing in a country with lax enforcement.

Can't people already do massive amounts of damage to a company truck/van by driving it into the water, or dumping gas on it and igniting it? Doing it remotely only makes marginally easier, but most people won't do it because they don't want to be on the lam just to send an anti-capitalist message.
by dluan | 2025-11-10 03:37:09+00:00
I love how the capitalist laws of markets that instigated the rise of China as a the main ship builder - cheaper labor, automated production, low cost of all the source materials also coming from China - don't seem to apply for the people making the argument of protectional national strategic industries.

This is no different than any other industry. Unless you are on the cutting edge of a product where innovation is still being pushed, then your industry is going to be eaten up by China.

The UK at its peak was producing 1.4M in ship tonnage, now it produces zero. The US currently produces 69k in ship tonnage. China produces 37M in ship tonnage. Even if you can scale back to the historic peak, it's nowhere near enough. The difference between zero produced ships a year and 3 per year or 30 per year may as well be zero when China is producing 3 per day. It's over.
by jtbaker | 2025-11-10 03:37:17+00:00
Cool. Love Tauri. So the whole board dataset is stored in localStorage? If you get to a point where the size limitations or synchronous blocking operations are an issue might consider using IndexedDB. There is a nice higher level wrapper around it called Dexie that has full TS typing support and a nice async API. https://dexie.org/
by fuoqi | 2025-11-10 03:37:17+00:00
See this video on the economics of shipbuilding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gk61ginOqo

Assembly of civilian merchant ships is a notoriously low-margin industry (as opposed to manufacturing of engines/propellers/control systems). You could heavily subsidize it (by protectionism measures and/or by juicing up your Navy) like the US does in the name of strategic importance, but be prepared to pay heavily for it. If you want to preserve shipbuilding capabilities for military reasons, then chasing after the Asian shipbuilding countries may not be the most efficient way of achieving this, i.e. it may be better to just invest into building of military ships and manufacturing of higher-margin components without bothering with the low-margin assembly stuff.
by shubham13596 | 2025-11-10 03:38:10+00:00
There are many language-learning apps, but almost none that focus on improving conversational Hindi for kids.

Made this web app for my nephew, based in Singapore, after watching him struggle to find anyone to practice Hindi with outside of family calls (since most of his friends are Chinese). The idea is to have a 24x7 partner to speak with Hindi and make it fun. This can complement the formal Hindi classes that most kids of Indian diaspora parents take.

My nephew started using this and is enjoying it!

Link: https://www.hindispeakingtutor.in/

Looking to hear feedback from the community!
by jerrygoyal | 2025-11-10 03:38:23+00:00
I built a chrome extension (with over 600,000 downloads) that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc.. You can use models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Yes, you can use your own API key as well.

https://jetwriter.ai

Feedbacks are welcome.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-11-10 03:38:25+00:00
The formula is:

your prescription - (100 / desired distance in cm).

For your PC that sits one meter away from your eyes, you'd need to subtract 1 from your real degree of myopia, e.g. for -4 degree myopia, get glasses that are -3. Don't forget to calculate individually for each eye.

As a matter of fact I'm using glasses I bought this way right now. I actually find these even more comfortable than my full degree glasses for all-day use too, in terms of eye strain.

I feel it's ridiculous that the medical industry thinks I need to wear glasses that are powerful enough to focus an image of a mountain 100 kms away all day, when my average focus distance throughout the day is probably less than one meter.

These reduced degree glasses are called differentials. If you want to go into the rabbit hole of fixing your myopia, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIGDSY_xBs

Disclaimer: When driving, you have to obviously wear your full prescription glasses.
by WillMorr | 2025-11-10 03:39:11+00:00
Mostly speed, I'm mostly doing large boolean unions of primitives or chain hulls and OpenSCAD chugs pretty good at large numbers of operations. Don't get me wrong, they're great tools for what they're good at. I need to do more research before I start a port, SDFs seem like the best option but I'm not 100% confident. I am considering using your SDF library though (github.com/fogleman/sdf) but need do do some experimenting/benchmarking first.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-10 03:39:39+00:00
We have pulled back from that with Trump suing companies who have said things against him and then paying him off - see Paramount, Disney, Facebook, X, and Google.

Not to mention the new press corp policy that everything that press says about the Pentagon has to be approved by the government. It was a policy so abhorrent that Fox News even refused to sign.

He even threatened to take away ABCs broadcast license because someone criticized a dead racist podcaster.

Conservatives all over the US - especially in “the free state of Florida” - are firing public officials who criticize him.

(and every time I dare say that Kirk was a racist who said a good “patriot” should bail out the person who best Pelosi’s husband almost to death, I get flagged)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk...
by softwaredoug | 2025-11-10 03:39:55+00:00
I didn’t strength train until my 40s. Started being able to curl 15 pound weights. Now at the same reps I’m up to 20 or 25. Years later :)

It takes time. It’s a very steady climb. No doubt if I was a teenager I’d make much faster progress.

But it’s not just about the raw amount of weights, my running pace, etc. The benefits for my mental health in the moment. Improving my sleep and stress. And myriad other benefits make it worth it.
by skrig | 2025-11-10 03:40:16+00:00
This would be awesome, we're in hardcore MVP build mode right now - when we get closer to launch I'll hit you up.

I'm a little delusional, but I think there's ground to steal back from Salesforce. Most folks I talk to hate how complicated Salesforce is (one even calls it Salesfarce). I've heard a story or two about smaller companies trying to adopt it and wasting a hundred thousand or two implementing Salesforce only to have it never get used. On top of that, you need to train your employees to use Salesforce effectively.

The key is simplicity, building a CRM that anyone can instantly understand just by looking at it. This is insanely hard but I think we'll pull it off. I'll show you more what I mean when I reach out. Thanks!
by hansvm | 2025-11-10 03:40:38+00:00
> his resume is designed poorly ... too long

The only readily available link I saw was to his CV, and it was shorter than a lot of resumes. It's wordier per line item than a normal CV, but it's not bad. Assuming it passes a sanity check for AI slop and role fit, as a hiring manager I wouldn't personally mind the length.

Are other people throwing that sort of thing into the circular filing bin?
by ggm | 2025-11-10 03:40:51+00:00
South Korea is a long way away, if supply chains are contested and there are competing bidders for their outputs. South Korea is far closer to Singapore.

"Friends" is a strange concept in national strategic planning. You might ask yourself "just how much are those friends going to come and help when push comes to shove" and look at current politics, and re-assess what has been commonly felt these last 50 years: no prior friend can be assumed to be motivated to still be a friend.

Think about Taiwan. All these friends, and now the biggest one says "we think you're too risky. move all that advanced chip making to us, onshore, we'll talk more about how seriously we want to be a friend and defend you after"