MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksec | 2025-12-16 12:37:12+00:00
We have got to the point where we can afford to stream Lossless Audio file already. ( And then lossy re-encoded on the fly to our wireless earphone )

For higher bitrate 190 - 256 Kbps AAC-LC offers 99.99% compatibility, only losing to MP3 while offering near indistinguishable audio quality all while being patent free.

Opus does shine in anything lower. I am not even aware of a codec that is as good at 128Kbps to 160Kbps range. The lower end sub 96kbps is also competitive if not the best at certain domain. But for compressing music or pre-recorded audio it is a solved problem or non-issue.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-16 12:37:42+00:00
Linear should take notes. In my previous consulting and termed engagements the lack of a good standardized spec templates has been a problem. Of course we ultimately made those but it took much more in-fighting than it should have. If the platform already offers a few baked templates then discussions are much quicker resolved. Same as auto-formatting of code; metric tons of tiresome bikeshedding disappear almost overnight.
by jigsawdesigner | 2025-12-16 12:38:49+00:00
This is awesome! I'm in the industrial software / CAD space, so I have a rough idea of how painful and complex these engineering workflows can be, even though I don't design hardware myself.

You might find it interesting to look into AI-powered PCB design tools for your next iteration. There are some cool tools popping up that can use AI to assist with the trace routing and layout, which could make the process much less tedious for you.
by rationalist | 2025-12-16 12:38:50+00:00
> This makes my ad profile useless

I have a theory that it doesn't. Which set of companies' logic is more likely?:

Is LadyCailin a "tree-hugging liberal"? LadyCailin clicked on a lot of Sierra Club and PETA ads, so yes. Good, we will add LadyCailin to this list.

Is LadyCailin an "extremist right-wing nazi"? LadyCailin clicked on a lot of prepper and gold ads, so yes. Good, we will *also* add LadyCailin to this other list.

OR

Is LadyCailin a "tree-hugging liberal"? Well, they clicked on these ads, so we think so, but then they clicked on these other ads, so we're not sure. Then she clicked on these other ads, now we don't have any idea.

Speaking from personal experience: Because some people have used my phone number and email address as their own, I get emails for one political party and text messages for the other political party.

It doesn't make my ad profile useless to the people sending me ads.

Give your phone number to both U.S. political parties. Congratulations you will get spammed by both. I doubt they are cross-checking.
by cluckindan | 2025-12-16 12:39:12+00:00
Indeed! However, law is not a definition of moral right and wrong; rather, it is a spatiotemporally varying definition of societal and judicial rights, permissions and restrictions of conduct which are usually grounded in the locally prevailing morals.

Law in a democratic society is a manifestation of so-called social contracts considered binding for members of that society.

However, law in a non-democratic society can be the complete opposite, to the point of enabling immoral conduct, including but not limited to legal crime, persecution of political opponents, ethnic cleansing and offensive warfare.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-16 12:39:30+00:00
I will only do things from memory, you can use Google yourself.

* Die Vorstadtkrokodile

"The suburb crocodiles", which is also how the youth gang in the book is called. Boy wants to be part of the gang, which has idiotic tests of courage. Plot twist is that the guy who refused to do this idiotic tests ends up being the tough guy. I don't remember if this was the main character or not. Ends up saving some other boy in a wheelchair, I think while they play in a collapsing old industrial building.

* Faust I

Maybe the most famous German book from v.Goethe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust,_Part_One Old professor Faust makes a deal with the devil that he can take his soul, if he is able to provide him with true joy. Professor gets young again, parties, seduces a flawless faithful girl, makes her kill her mother, she ends up in prison being pregnant, devil proposes to save here if she ditches god, she refuses. Faust flees, huge cliff hanger until v.Goethe gets to write Faust II at the end of his live.

* Antigone

Famous greek drama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone

* Die Räuber

Famous play from the other famous German poet Schiller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robbers

* Hamlet

Shakespeare, original available in English

* Der Besuch der alten Dame

"The visit of the old Lady" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visit_(play) The old (now rich) lady visits her home town, which has seen better times and demands the death of her youth lover for a huge amount of money for the town. In the beginning all swear loyalty to the guy, in the end all demand his death, inviting the international press. In between the slow transition is described being framed by the protagonists as the most ethical thing ever.

* Im Westen nichts Neues

"No news from the West (front)" describes the trauma of soldiers in the first world war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front

* Woyzeck

Soldier Woyzeck gets exploited by both his superior and his doctor. The doctor puts him on a only beans diet, he becomes crazy. The doctor comments his mental struggles with "Very interesting, very good, should also try this ..." Ends up killing his spouse due to jealousy and later maybe himself. Never got completed by the original author, and the order of the acts is disputed, which makes for a quite different ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-16 12:39:44+00:00
There are already things in place for dealing with failed transponders.

It's bad enough that the US already deliberately shoot at their allies (look at all the "friendly fire" incidents the US cause) without them sneaking about in protected airspace without identifying themselves.

If there's a military plane flying around without any identification, it's either a Russian flight up to no good or an American one up to no good.
by dijit | 2025-12-16 12:39:48+00:00
> Everyone likes to meme on this, but TLS without verification is actually substantially stronger than nothing for server-to-server SMTP (though verification is even better). It's much easier to snoop on a TCP connection than it is to MITM it when you're communicating between two different datacenters (unlike a coffeeshop). And most mail is between major providers in practice, so they were able to negotiate how to establish trust amongst themselves and protect the vast majority of email from MITM too.

No, it's literally nothing, since you can just create whatever TLS cert you want and just MITM anyway.

What do you think you're protecting from? Passive snooping via port-mirroring?

Taps are generally more sophisticated than that.

How do I establish trust with Google? How do they establish trust with me: I mean, we're not using the system designed for it, so clearly it's not possible- otherwise they would have enabled this option at the minimum.
by cwillu | 2025-12-16 12:40:01+00:00
“

Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age. The man with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health.

We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.

This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions. It will act as a protection to future Administrations against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy. The law will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation. It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needed and patriotic legislation.

If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time. ”

--Franklin D. Roosevelt
by 7839284023 | 2025-12-16 12:40:33+00:00
Yes it does.

I bought a Tolino Shine 5 and converted it to Kobo Clara BW following this guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/tolino/comments/1hni1fn/you_can_con...

At the end I still returned the Shine 5 because the small front-facing LED kept shining for no reason. I don’t know if it was hardware related or happened because of the firmware switch.
by phpnode | 2025-12-16 12:40:34+00:00
Not a panacea for broken culture.

I've just left a company that used to have an internal RFC process and it was a very significant barrier to progress that stifled innovation, led to breakdown of working relationships and caused the most productive engineers to run for the exits.

RFC is a request for comments, and it turns out you have to be really careful about the kinds of comments you solicit and who from. As soon as you ask people to comment you are setting an expectation that you will take their feedback onboard and address their points, but there’s a real asymmetry here - it is much easier to leave a critical comment, or to ask a question, than it is to address the concerns or answer the question.

This asymmetrical nature puts much more work on the shoulders of the RFC author. Similarly, the people writing the RFC have typically thought much harder and longer and deeper about the problem than the people giving feedback on it. This leads to authors having to re-explain their thinking in detail, covering points that they’d omitted for brevity or because they are obvious to those with a good understanding of the problem.

Suddenly, the task changes from shipping the feature or making the change to achieving consensus on the RFC. I have seen that process take months - far longer, and being far more expensive than just doing the work would be.

The worst part is - no one is in the wrong! The authors write the RFC in good faith, the commenters review the RFC in good faith, and they rightly expect that any problems they identify are addressed. But the whole process can be soul crushingly slow, painful and full of professional conflict.

I’m not saying that RFCs are bad overall, but you have to have a culture of accountability, pragmatism and getting things done to actually make this process work.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-12-16 12:41:12+00:00
The American working class doesn't like to acknowledge its own existence or assert its self-worth. There's no real self identity for that class in America.

In fact, a huge number of the people that are in that class would resent you for classifying them in this way. And the same is true for those in the upper middle class, or elites.

Secondly, trying to scope the xenophobia problem to just the working class is itself a bit of a misdirection. Plenty of that comes from the swaths of upper middle class white collar folks. And plenty of it comes from second gen immigrants who are eager to be counted among the natives.

The xenophobia _is_ the substitute American culture provides as a filler for the vacuum left by the lack of any sort of class identity. Everybody falls over themselves demonstrating how they can be "more American" in one way or the other. Who is a "real" American, what their qualities are, whether this particular thing or that particular thing is more or less American, etc. etc.

It's an alternate focus to direct all that shame the culture demands from the poor.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-12-16 12:41:46+00:00
Interfaces are only necessary to properly abstract away from implementation details that have different change driver assignments. Else it's overkill and arbitrary. This doesn't invalidate hexagonal architecture, it just provides the actual good guideline to know if abstractions and information hiding are necessary.

Check the Independent Variation Principle paper for more info: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17677316

The IVP provides two directives that help evaluating objectively design options, based on actual business decisional authority structure, not some guy's intuition. With the insights of the IVP, you'll be able to decide effectively.

The paper is long, but you can skip to the parts that you find interesting
by dijit | 2025-12-16 12:41:55+00:00
and we're back to: How do I create an API token that only enables a single record to be changed on any major cloud provider?

Or.. any registrar for that matter (Namecheap, Gandi, Godaddy)?

The answer seems to be: "Bro, you want security so the way you do that is to give every device that needs TLS entire access to modify any DNS record, or put it on the public internet; that's the secure way".

(PS: the way this was answered before was: "Well then don't use LE and just buy a certificate from a major provider", but, well, now that's over).
by gtani | 2025-12-16 12:42:29+00:00
Will take awhile for liquidity to build, just look at volume candles on /ES contract, really not much during Asian trading session

24 hour trading is avail on brokers like IBK, webull, hood, etrade, Schwab (short lists of tickers, but useful ones, QQQ, SPY SMH etc). If you're looking at just ARca's order book, liquidity is pretty thin overnight before 4am EST
by rundev | 2025-12-16 12:42:42+00:00
The claim of linear runtime is only true if K is independent of the dataset size, so it would have been nice to see an exploration of how different values of K impact results. I.e. does clustering get better for larger K, if so how much? The values 50 and 100 seem arbitrary and even suspiciously close to sqrt(N) for the 9K dataset.
by mapt | 2025-12-16 12:43:22+00:00
Paraquat is something that can cause acute toxicity to the point of death.

Glyphosate is a teddy bear by comparison.

Many chemicals that cause acute toxicity at high doses also have poorly studied chronic toxicity or carcinogenicity issues, either from bioaccumulation or from cumulative low-grade damage. These issues are much less well-studied than chronic effects of less harmful chemicals, specifically because acute toxicity and attempts to avoid it makes objective testing difficult.
by jackzhuo | 2025-12-16 12:43:54+00:00
Let me reverse engineer the stack trace:

You were likely asking: 'Why is this code throwing an error and fighting me?'

The transition from Conflict (fighting the code) to Contemplation (Observing/Viewing) suggests the solution isn't to type more code, but to step away and look at the logs (or the documentation).

Did I debug the user intent correctly?
by vitus | 2025-12-16 12:44:23+00:00
So, for 10 pairs, 45 guesses (9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1) in the worst case, and roughly half that on average?

It's interesting how close 22.5 is to the 21.8 bits of entropy for 10!, and that has me wondering how often you would win if you followed this strategy with 18 truth booths followed by one match up (to maintain the same total number of queries).

Simulation suggests about 24% chance of winning with that strategy, with 100k samples. (I simplified each run to "shuffle [0..n), find index of 0".)
by willvarfar | 2025-12-16 12:45:21+00:00
I know I paid about 1000EUR for an air-air heat-pump with install in Sweden, but that was a decade ago and they cost 1500-2000EUR total these days. I also have a fancy big ground-source heat-pump bigger than most residential ones and that cost under 10000EUR total. So not sure what makes them so expensive in other countries; you'd hope competition kept prices competitive.
by sofixa | 2025-12-16 12:45:32+00:00
> It's called TDS. Blind unfiltered constant rage against Trump, and anything he might represent, as if he is the great marvel super villain.

I mean he obviously isn't, he's way too fucking dumb and demented for a good supervillain. Nobody would buy a guy looking like that as the "super villain". Sleasy mafia boss wanting to sleep with your preteen daughter in exchange for a favour, yes. Super villain? Never in his wildest dreams.
by dutchtropez | 2025-12-16 12:45:36+00:00
That’s fair feedback — the early description leans abstract.

Practically, Concord is a local app you run that gives you a structured place to think and build ideas, not chat with a bot.

Concretely, you can: • Write an idea and break it into parts (claim, reasoning, evidence, tests, impact) instead of a free-form note • Save those as reusable “thought units” and browse/search them later like a personal knowledge base • Ask Concord questions using one of those ideas as context (e.g. “challenge this assumption” or “extend this”) • Run background processes that evolve or refine ideas over time (optional, local)

Recent updates also made it more approachable: • Clear UI tabs instead of raw JSON • A visual DTU library instead of manual files • A Forge flow that guides you step-by-step rather than requiring you to know the structure up front

You don’t need an LLM or an account — it works offline. If you’ve ever wanted something between a notes app and a research notebook, that’s the niche it’s aiming for.

Happy to clarify anything specific.
by corimaith | 2025-12-16 12:46:15+00:00
Lol, the US deficits are what sustains the production of demand stricken surplus economies. Everything that has happened is the ultimate result of surplus countries doubling down on mercantalist investment than growing internal consumption.

If a rebalancing were to occur, it is the surplus countries hit with mass unemployment that will hurt much more than deficit countries that can move production back at a much quicker pace. The author is making the mistake of viewing tings from a supply side perspective when given excessive reliance on investment and high savings the world is constrained by chronic underconsumption.
by codeflo | 2025-12-16 12:46:36+00:00
Before Minecraft, basically all voxel engines used some form of non-axis-aligned normals to hide the sharp blocks. Those engines did this either through explicit normal mapping, or at the very least, by deriving intermediate angles from the Marching Cubes algorithm. Nowadays, the blocky look has become stylish, and I don't think it really even occurs to people that they could try to make the voxels smooth.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-16 12:48:02+00:00
Maybe I should have written "average maybe university educated Joe". They of course don't want to move most of the time, but moving in the country and moving between Europeen countries is not that much different due to the EU. (Yes, Brexit, but they are still treated specially. Fellow British exchange student described is as annoying, but reasonable.)

My point was that some part of the issue is labor supply, so one country giving up, might actually fix it for the other countries in the short term. This is why no one wants to defect.

Also doing anything to improve things or move in your proposed direction means acknowledging that we did huge mistakes in the past 20-30 years, and accepting that we are actually globalization losers. However most politicians are still the same or in the same party, that still promotes more globalization will fix everything. Also in university the mere idea, that maybe sending all IP to and training China, is maybe not the best idea and that we are now not the more powerful side any more, gets immediately shouted down as "xenophobia".
by kimos | 2025-12-16 12:48:11+00:00
I’ve tried getting CEC working with my pretty average setup: Samsung Frame, Marantz receiver, couple of console games.

It has been worse than doing all the remote juggling switching mysel because it is non-deterministic. This article will help me debug it, but it’s a toss up which audio device the screen will pick, if game mode activates or not, and if some device waking in the wrong order will put another one right back to sleep. Even if I follow the same steps every time.
by artembugara | 2025-12-16 12:49:33+00:00
We started doing quarterly RFC at Newscatcher, and it was a big game-changer. We're entirely remote.

I got this idea from Netflix's founder's book "No Rules Rules" (highly recommend it)

Overall, I think the main idea is: context is what matters, and RFC helps you get your (mine, I'm the founder) vision into people's heads a bit more. Therefore, people can be more autonomous and move on faster.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-16 12:49:49+00:00
The real problem is not the US no longer being the influence it was for "the west" (to simplify). The real problem is, what takes the space the US previously filled and still partly/mostly fills.

The US are by no means innocent of terrorism and invasion of other countries, but at least with countries commonly counted as "the west", the US was a friendly nation. If we have the likes of terrorist states like Russia taking over, then we got some very dark times ahead of us.

Even worse, if the right wing and right extreme talking points and policies in the US don't stop, we might face the (still) strongest military on the planet becoming the arm of a fascist state. It might even get worse than the WW2, since the US military is probably more superior compared to almost any other nation on the planet, than Nazi Germany's military was, and already has presence in basically all parts of the world, plus the logistics.

So lets hope that the current period of idiocy ends soon, and we can get back to peaceful international relations, with a sane US leadership, instead of one, that seemingly seeks to tear down as many bridges as possible. However, we are only in year one (!) of the current US government, so we will probably have to hold out breath a little longer, and Europe will have to rely on itself.
by londons_explore | 2025-12-16 12:50:27+00:00
For example, the following hidden anywhere in the codebase allows arbitrary code execution even under the most stringent JavaScript security policy (no eval etc):

I=c=>c.map?c[0]?c.reduce((a,b)=>a[b=I(b)]||a(b),self):c[1]:c

(How it works is an exercise to the reader)

The actual code to run can be delivered as an innocuous looking JavaScript array from some server, and potentially only delivered to one high value target.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-16 12:50:30+00:00
"Eventually they realized that this was something they were going to have to sort out, and they passed a law decreeing that anyone who had to carry a weapon as part of his normal Silastic work (policemen, security guards, primary school teachers, etc.) had to spend at least forty five minutes every day punching a sack of potatoes in order to work off his or her surplus aggressions. For a while this worked well, until someone thought that it would be much more efficient and less time-consuming if they just shot the potatoes instead. This led to a renewed enthusiasm for shooting all sorts of things..."

- Douglas Adams, "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

(It took an unreasonably long time to find this quote!)