MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piskov | 2025-12-12 23:37:05+00:00
On a tangent note: don’t use ultrasonic humidifiers. Unless distilled water is used, they create a shit-ton of pm2.5 particles.

Use evaporative humidifiers (just disks with myriads of small notches for water to cling on and a fan): https://us.smartmiglobal.com/pages/smartmi-evaporative-humid...
by piva00 | 2025-12-12 23:38:24+00:00
How isn't it a market solution for a collective of individuals to band together to determine what they think are fair conditions of wage and labour? If they are wrong then the whole thing fails just like a business mispricing and/or mistreating its customers would, if they are right they all get a better deal.

It's a freer market than allowing disproportionate power of employers in the labour market distort the price of labour.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-12 23:39:00+00:00
Define "washed out"?

The white and black levels of the UX are supposed to stay in SDR. That's a feature not a bug.

If you mean the interface isn't bright enough, that's intended behavior.

If the black point is somehow raised, then that's bizarre and definitely unintended behavior. And I honestly can't even imagine what could be causing that to happen. It does seem like that it would have to be a serious macOS bug.

You should post a photo of your monitor, comparing a black #000 image in Preview with a pitch-black frame from a video. People edit HDR video on Macs, and I've never heard of this happening before.
by godelski | 2025-12-12 23:39:01+00:00
I absolutely love this!

# Suggestion:

You really should release parts as parametric or at least the source files. I see everything is an STL and STLs are just a pain to work with. Suppose we want to try with mice? Or what about my cat? I do not expect just scaling in my slicer is going to end up with a good result, I'll need to redo everything from scratch. But parametric parts? That gives us a lot faster iteration. That gives you a lot faster iteration too! I highly recommend taking that approach when designing and I find it is worth it more often than not.

Could you add cost estimates to the BOM? These never need to be accurate but I always find it helpful when estimating a project. You're just saving people from the time it takes to click every single link and throw them into a calculator. And informs people very quickly what to innovate on to drive costs down. (Sorry, BOMs without cost estimates are a big pet peeve of mine)

# Questions:

- Do the rats enjoy playing Doom?

- Are there specific games the rats like to play?

I've never thought about what types of videogames other animals would enjoy, but damn if you didn't just open Pandora's Box here. I actually think we could learn a lot about them (and even their specific personalities) from this question. It gives a whole other level of refinement than just knowing what my cat's favorite toys and games are...

And also, thanks for open sourcing this! I'm excited to see what comes of it!
by wisty | 2025-12-12 23:39:17+00:00
This is the underlying problem behind syncophantcy.

I saw a YouTube video about a investigative youtuber Eddy Burback who very easily convinced chat4 that he should cut off all contact with friends and family, move to a cabin in the desert, eat baby food, wrap himself in alfoil, etc just feeding his own (faked) mistakes and delusions. "What you are doing is important, trust your instincts".

Wven if AI could hypothetically be 100x as smart as a human under the hood, it still doesn't care. It doesn't do what it thinks it should, it doesn't do what it needs to do, it does what we train it to.

We train in humanities weaknesses and follies. AI can hypothetically exceed humanity in some respects, but in other respects it is a very hard to control power tool.

AI is optimised, and optimised functions always "hack" the evaluation function. In the case of AI, the evaluation function includes human flaws. AI is trained to tell us what we want to hear.

Elon Musk sees the problem, but his solution is to try to make it think more like him, and even if that succeeds it just magnifies his own weaknesses.

Has anyone read the book criticising Ray Dalio? He is a very successful hedge fund manager, who decided that he could solve the problem of finding a replacement by psychology evaluation and training people to think like him. But even his smartest employees didn't think like him, they just (reading between the lines) gamed his system. Their incentives weren't his incentives - he could demand radical honesty and integrity but that doesn't work so well when he would (of course) reward the people who agreed with him, rather than the people who would tell him he was screwing up. His organisation (apparently) became a bunch of even more radical syncopants due to his efforts to weed out syncophantcy.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-12-12 23:39:26+00:00
> you end up with no clear picture of which browsers support these records to which end.

> Unfortunately even the otherwise ever so useful https://caniuse.com/ does not provide that information

Not quite the same, but Cloudflare's statistics show that 8.1% of all DNS requests to its public resolver are for HTTPS RRs [0], and the statistics on the authoritative DNS server that I run [1] show that only 1.11% of requests were for an HTTPS RR.

[0]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/dns#dns-query-type

[1]: https://ns.maxchernoff.ca/
by jrm4 | 2025-12-12 23:39:31+00:00
Right - I'm wondering why this article is so important and maybe I haven't seen enough intrusive "smart" TV's -- but is it not the case that for the vast majority of smart TVs, you can still just connect whatever to the HDMI (e.g. a computer) and keep it on that? Mine are Roku's, but I feel like the Samsungs et al are the same?
by lacker | 2025-12-12 23:39:49+00:00
At first this sounds cool but I feel like it falls apart with a basic example.

Let's say you're running a simple e-commerce site. You have some microservices, like, a payments microservice, a push notifications microservice, and a logging microservice.

So what are the dependencies. You might want to send a push notification to a seller when they get a new payment, or if there's a dispute or something. You might want to log that too. And you might want to log whenever any chargeback occurs.

Okay, but now it is no longer a "polytree". You have a "triangle" of dependencies. Payment -> Push, Push -> Logs, Payment -> Logs.

These all just seem really basic, natural examples though. I don't even like microservices, but they make sense when you're essentially just wrapping an external API like push notifications or payments, or a single-purpose datastore like you often have for logging. Is it really a problem if a whole bunch of things depend on your logging microservice? That seems fine to me.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-12-12 23:39:50+00:00
>If we don't think the candle in a simulated universe is a "real candle", why do we consider the intelligence in a simulated universe possibly "real intelligence"?

I can smell a "real" candle, a "real" candle can burn my hand. The term real here is just picking out a conceptual schema where its objects can feature as relata of the same laws, like a causal compatibility class defined by a shared causal scope. But this isn't unique to the question of real vs simulated. There are causal scopes all over the place. Subatomic particles are a scope. I, as a particular collection of atoms, am not causally compatible with individual electrons and neutrons. Different conceptual levels have their own causal scopes and their own laws (derivative of more fundamental laws) that determine how these aggregates behave. Real (as distinct from simulated) just identifies causal scopes that are derivative of our privileged scope.

Consciousness is not like the candle because everyone's consciousness is its own unique causal scope. There are psychological laws that determine how we process and respond to information. But each of our minds are causally isolated from one another. We can only know of each other's consciousness by judging behavior. There's nothing privileged about a biological substrate when it comes to determining "real" consciousness.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-12 23:40:05+00:00
> Well, your opinion is literally illegal.

In support of this irrefutable statement:

• > "Whatever is, is right." — Alexander Pope

• > "If you want to get along, go along." — Sam Rayburn

• > "Reform? Reform! Aren't things bad enough already?" — Lord Eldon

• > "We've always done it this way." — Grace Hopper (referred to it as a dangerous phrase)

• > "Well, when you put it that way..." — [List of millions redacted to protect the compliant]

Rebuttal:

• > "“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw

• > "Yeah, well, ya know, that's just like, uh, your opinion man." — The Dude (In someone's pharmaceutically elevated dream, addressing the Supreme Court.)
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-12 23:40:12+00:00
Z-Image Base and Z-Image Edit have been announced as being the same size (or, at least, the whole set has been announced as being in the 6B size class) as Turbo, but slower (50 steps with CFG, apparently, from the announced 100 NFEs compared to Turbo's 9 NFEs, where turbo doesn't, in the use they reference, use CFG.)
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-12 23:40:12+00:00
China has 1,000 GW installed solar and 26 GW of wind which generate 2k TWh/yr. The total installed nuclear in China is a mere 60 GW which generate 450 TWh/yr. Therefore, the capacity factor of solar is 2 TWh/GW and that of nuclear is 4 times higher at 8 TWh/GW.

Calling an 4 times higher capacity factor "noise" is actual noise.

Besides, nuclear provides uninterrupted energy supply, no need for storage or special convenient places for installation. That's why China is building capacity of both types as fast as they can.

Europe is in a colder geographic area with less sunshine and more needs of energy during the cold/rainy days, nuclear is an absolute necessity there.
by purplehat_ | 2025-12-12 23:40:15+00:00
Thanks for sharing this!!

I like using silly fonts, e.g. Comic Sans Mono has been my daily driver for the past year or so, and it's really fun to see the Minecraft fonts and old DOS and VT323 fonts. If anyone's into retro computing, it's worth checking those out, particularly the website link for the IBM VGA 9x16, which has loads and loads more old fonts.

I think I'll try using Monocraft in the shell for a while and see if it works well for me, though I might stick to Comic Sans for actual coding :)
by elliotto | 2025-12-12 23:41:52+00:00
The author postulates a few ideas about manners and courtesy, and starts to recognise that business transactions (employment relationships) don't actually care about these things, even though the human beings who populate these systems hold these values.

The nash equilibrium in a buyer-seller market like the employer-employee relationship is for both sides to defect. Humans don't behave optimally, because they aren't pure rational creatures, they are imbued with some socialisation and cultural memory. So humans try to treat with these organisations as though they are other humans, and will respond to good-will with good-will, but this is not rewarded, and ultimately they change their behaviour in response to a poor environment.

Capital does behave short term optimally. Optimal economic behaviour is to betray the person opposite you, and violate and exploit the commons until the commons collapses entirely, like what we see today. At some points in the past, capital has been subdued by a human operator who will apply courtesy and social norms to prevent these ugly actions, but capital has now become too intelligent to bother with this, and the result is a sequence of increasingly insane and inhuman processes, such as what we see here with the job market.
by boneitis | 2025-12-12 23:42:05+00:00
Funny enough, seeing all types of different suggestions under the sun here in the sibling posts; it's also unsurprising, since I myself can't tell where the gap is between what the Pi offers vs. what you're hoping for, as that would have been the first thing I suggested.

In addition to all the other suggestions, you might look at PINE64's offerings. Maybe one of their tablets, their PinePhone, or one of their SBCs or SOCs.
by Svoka | 2025-12-12 23:42:49+00:00
I think this is weirdly resonated with me. I used moved to Rust from C for embedded programming, and realized that my whole paradigm shifted on how I write programs.

Rust is much more than safe(r) C, it is different approach of architecting apps to have safer relations between components. Now that I am looking at my old code, I see how it would benefit from this paradigm.

And it also a 'problem' with Rust - it requires one to think differently. You can write Rusty code in C, and indeed results are just better, but trying to write Rust in C style would lead to fighting compiler and suffering.

Other languages, like Zig or Go, they chose different approach - to decorate C with modern features, and that works too.
by mpweiher | 2025-12-12 23:44:29+00:00
Germany: the country with World’s Dumbest Energy Policy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11...

Yep, the Gas that was needed due to ... the World's Dumbest Energy Policy.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/nord-s...

Schon während seiner Kanzlerschaft sei die damalige Bundesregierung der Auffassung gewesen, die deutsche Energiepolitik aus der Abhängigkeit der Kernenergie zu befreien. "Wir fanden deshalb, dass es Sinn macht, auf Gas zu setzen."

Uranium is cheap, widely available (largest known reserves in Australia, 3rd in Canada, also Sweden recently had a large find), compact, solid, storable.

Security:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-p...

In Ukraine, nuclear is what's keeping the lights on.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-12 23:45:34+00:00
I think the message between the lines is what's important, and it goes like this:

"We in the executive branch have an agreement with the Supreme Court allowing us to bypass congress and enact edicts. We will do this by sending the Justice Department any state law that gets in the way of our donors, sending the layup to our Republican Supreme Court, who will dunk on the States for us and nullify their law."

We don't have to go through the motions of pretending we still live in a constitutional republic, it's okay to talk frankly about reality as it exists.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-12 23:47:09+00:00
Consumers generally have far more compute than they think; it's just all distributed across devices and hard to utilize effectively over unreliable interfaces (e.g. Wi-Fi). If Apple (or anyone, really) could figure out a way to utilize that at modern scales, I wager privacy-conscious consumers would gladly trade some latency in responses in favor of superior overall model performance - heck, branding it as "deep thinking" might even pull more customers in via marketing alone ("thinks longer, for better results" or some vaguely-not-suable marketing slogan). It could even be made into an API for things like batch image or video rendering, but without the hassle of setting up an app-specific render farm.

There's definitely something there, but Apple's really the only player setup to capitalize on it via their halo effect with devices and operating systems. Everyone else is too fragmented to make it happen.
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-12 23:47:12+00:00
That’s clearly bullshit because if the user sets a system wide theme and your appLICATION follows that theme, then your appLICATION is not going to be any harder to use than the system itself nor any other appLICATION using native widgets.

What is actually happening is designers are forcing non-native controls, in part because web technologies have infested every corner of software development these days. Unsurprisingly, those non-native widgets break in a plethora of ways when the system diverges even marginally from the OS defaults.

And instead of those designers admitting that they fucked up, they instead double down on their contempt for their users.

Also, can we please not call desktop applications “apps” in response to an article about an OS that predates smartphones by several decades.
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-12 23:47:25+00:00
RDMA is a networking standard, it's supposed to be switched. The reason why it's being done over Thunderbolt is that it's the only cheap/prosumer I/O standard with enough bandwidth to make this work. Like, 100Gbit Ethernet cards are several hundred dollars minimum, for two ports, and you have to deal with SFP+ cabling. Thunderbolt is just way nicer[0].

The way this capability is exposed in the OS is that the computers negotiate an Ethernet bridge on top of the TB link. I suspect they're actually exposing PCIe Ethernet NICs to each other, but I'm not sure. But either way, a "Thunderbolt router" would just be a computer with a shitton of USB-C ports (in the same way that an "Ethernet router" is just a computer with a shitton of Ethernet ports). I suspect the biggest hurdle would actually just be sourcing an SoC with a lot of switching fabric but not a lot of compute. Like, you'd need Threadripper levels of connectivity but with like, one or two actual CPU cores.

[0] Like, last time I had to swap work laptops, I just plugged a TB cable between them and did an `rsync`.
by tormeh | 2025-12-12 23:47:58+00:00
What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort. How is this not a thing? IIRC you cannot buy a display with DP that's larger than 45 inches, give or take - they just don't exist. I think this is really weird. Like, I'd pay an extra $100 for that port, but I'm just not allowed to have it.
by fabianhjr | 2025-12-12 23:48:05+00:00
> “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

The point of the Turing Test is that if there is no extrinsic difference between a human and a machine the intrinsic difference is moot for practical purposes. That is not an argument to whether a machine (with linear algebra, machine learning, large language models, or any other method) can think or what constitutes thinking or consciousness.

The Chinese Room thought experiment is a compliment on the intrinsic side of the comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
by try_the_bass | 2025-12-12 23:48:23+00:00
The reason I'm skeptical of this, in this particular case, is because the data here isn't actually owned by the police/government (I think?), it's owned by Flock. A department can search the data for given attributes, but I don't think they have the whole data set to provide as a response to a FOIA request in the first place.
by hexer292 | 2025-12-12 23:49:20+00:00
Not giving men any authority on abortion is taking a hard stance that abortion is a female issue over a human issue.

I won't pass any judgement either way, but it's an interesting perspective.

With 100+ Million orphans in the world, having your own kids is anti-humanitarian (not anti-human) anyways, so why is being a corporate climber relevant?
by treetalker | 2025-12-12 23:49:58+00:00
> My Administration must act with the Congress to ensure that there is a minimally burdensome national standard — not 50 discordant State ones. …

Sounds like leaving it up to Congress! But then the administration vows to thwart state laws despite the vacuum of no extant preemption, so effectively imposing a type of supposed Executive preemption:

> Until such a national standard exists, however, it is imperative that my Administration takes action to check the most onerous and excessive laws emerging from the States that threaten to stymie innovation.

So preemption link is relevant, I think; and at any rate, helpful to give background to those not familiar with the concept, which constitutes the field against which this is happening.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 23:50:12+00:00
The cosmic radiation that reaches Earth's surface consists mainly of particles that cannot be stopped by thin shields (e.g. muons or other particles with very high energies), otherwise they would not have passed through the atmosphere.

So shielding is not a solution that can be applied in a vehicle. You need something like an underground bunker to be sure that no cosmic radiation can penetrate it.

The only reason that makes rare the events caused by cosmic radiation is that if those particles can pass through shields that means that in most cases they will also pass through the electronic devices without being absorbed and causing malfunction.
by opan | 2025-12-12 23:50:14+00:00
While I'm not a fan of AI, as a lover of keyboards and vim, I found this to be a fun read. I occasionally try to explain the reduced friction / increased flow to people that comes with CLIs, keyboard navigation, and fast typing speeds, but I'm not sure I get it across well. So many people are quick to claim a fast typing speed is useless because typing isn't the bottleneck or whatever, but being able to type 150wpm+ means typing 100wpm is also much easier, and also that you've learned your tools well and can get around with little thought. It's just easiest to quantify raw typing speed, it's not the whole picture. I wasn't aware of the specific research covered in the article, but it kinda aligns with how I already felt, so it's cool to read about.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-12 23:50:26+00:00
> he is one of the more popular presidents in US history.

Published today: "Trump's approval rating on the economy hits record low 31%"[1]

> President Trump's approval rating on his longtime political calling card — the economy — has sunk to 31%, the lowest it has been across both of his terms as president, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC.

"Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low" [2]

> his all-time low was 34% in 2021, at the end of his first term after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The man is only two points above where he was when every reputable institution on the planet was running away from him as fast as possible, and he was nearly convicted in the senate. Less than a year into the term.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-economy-inflation-aff...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/699221/trump-approval-rating-dr...