skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same 'get out clause' that the antagonist in the Saw films uses: "I didn't harm those people directly, I only created the conditions under which they would be harmed."

The WHO defines four types of violence: a) physical, b) sexual, c) psychological, and d) deprivation. Denying healthcare feels incredibly close to d) and — semi-indirectly — involves a bit of c) and a) too.

> These things are objectively not violence.

Semantics cannot possibly be 'objective'.
Your kernel will already cache all IO in memory.

You can decrease the to-disk syncing to e.g. once per day.

```sysctl.conf
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 86400000
```
> If you had any passwords, or literally anything else, they can take it.

They have done it before.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/fs-labs-flight-simulator-pas...

Shipped a browser stealer to users and exfiltrated data on an unencrypted channel.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/1cibw9r/valorant...

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/634974-...

Screenshots your computer screen and exfiltrates the picture to their servers.

Trusting these game companies is a huge mistake.
Probably less - RPis these days run very hot (60C+) even when idling due to rather poor power management.
Mexico has virtually 0 legaly owned firearms. Total gun control. Yet they have large amounts of mass murders.
This is not mentioned nearly enough. I think it’s rooted in the idea that people must be either great or awful when being both is a very real possibility.
Ask this question to a friend in your social circles where this is happening. Have you talked about this with your wife?
What do you use as a monitor? Hotel TV?
We had this discussion with the 8GB Pi 5, at which time I argued that a mini PC (I got a Minisforum UM480[0] with a mobile Ryzen 7 8C/16T with 32GB RAM and 1TB NVMe for a ~£260 on sale) is in another league performance and feature wise while not costing as much more than a Pi as you'd think once you factor in the cost of the Pi + cooler + uSD + PSU + case + NVMe base/HAT + NVMe SSD.

I've been a fan of the Pi since the beginning, and in the SBC world, their support is unmatched, but with these improvements, they're speccing themselves more into homelab/server/desktop use than straight tinkering/GPIO stuff, all while the prices are pricing them out of that market.

If you don't want to annihilate the performance of a Pi 5 like the Minisforum mini-PC does, you can buy a complete N100 mini-PC for ~£100 with all of the RAM, storage, case, IO and PSU included that will still destroy a Pi 5 and actually cost you less up-and-running and still get better performance.

[0]https://store.minisforum.com/pages/product (Click UM480, their website design doesn't let me link to it directly)
I believe the Olympics is meant to be a career for the rich, and the IOC will do its best to keep working-class people out by removing their opportunities, especially in popular sports. If too many rich kids can't get into Olympic teams, then the IOC will make sure that avenues like OnlyFans are banned.
I'm in Hungary and for the equivalent of $120 you can get an enterprise refurbished mini PC (Dell, HP, Lenovo) with a much better CPU (i3-8100T, i5-8500T, i3-10100T for example) and storage options here. I'm running Dell Optiplex Micros with triple SSDs (1x 2.5", 2x NVMe). And it's x86 so you can prety much run whatever OS you want without any problems. The power consumption is perfectly fine too. Mines usually idle around 4-5W.

Good article about the same topic https://louwrentius.com/the-raspberry-pi-5-is-no-match-for-a... Even a 10 years old i5-6500 is outperforming the RPI5!
> If Valve went the native route why would that have changed?

We would have an ecosystem of native GNU/Linux games, and Microsoft could do whatever they felt like withouth any side effects.

> You keep repeating that in every comment but I don’t quite understand how is this some conclusive argument. Especially when you don’t elaborate on what specifically do you think could happen.

It will happen the same it did to DR-DOS, OS/2 and EEE PCs, and did to anyone else that built kigdoms in other people castles, the rest you can discover yourself.

Another example, even though Android is heavily dependent on Java ecosystem, and Google has won the lawsuit, they have started rewriting even the core components in Kotlin, because alongside JetBrains, they control the narrative of what goes on their kingdom.

Likewise Apple's approach with Game Porting Toolkit, is to help rewrite DirectX into Metal, not to run them unmodified, again control the narrative.
Acting classes or singing lessons? I think you just want to get confidence in having people's attention, through modulating like the other guy said, and being interesting to listen to. But try not to worry about this too much, I feel like it will make you feel insecure if you focus on it for too long.

Another great thing for me is to shift the focus on to the person you're speaking with, even in a group. People love to talk about themselves. Ask them honest, thoughtful questions about what they're talking about. Don't over indulge them, but everyone is equal in this world, and hearing them out on things leads to a healthy discourse.

One final tip and this is important, if they talk about a trip to the Bahamas or whatever and you then feel the urge to bring up your similar trip to the Bahamas, maybe don't. Instead of hearing their point of view, you're making the conversation about you immediately and people don't like that. You can hold that thought and bring it up later in the conversation, organically.
I own a company that sells BeagleBones, Jestsons, LattePandas, in the past Bananna Pi and other cheap and cheerful Chinese embedded boards. What sets the Raspberry Pi apart from its peers is the software stability. None of the others come close to it (okay, maybe the latte panda does)…

> for some reason they never came back down

That simply is not true if you buy from an authorised distributor. Authorised distributors are required to sell at MSRP.
TabPFN-V2
I think that is part true, but there are multiple other factors. I think one is that the main religion in the west is anti-wealth ("eye of a needle", "root of all evil", "give all you have to the poor" etc.) and that fits uncomfortably with a wealthy society.

> There is a very real perception among them that the scriptures allow a better understanding of nature and the universe than the systems nature and the universe provide to aid our understanding.

That is mostly true in the west of a new variant of Christianity - American evangelical Christianity. It only really really took off in the 18th century ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism#History ) and has gained a lot of ground in recent decades. TO some extent I think it is a product of the same culture as political ideologies: polarisation and blind loyalty. Like those ideologies it originated in the US.

> I'd bet dollars to donuts that extremism in the future will be fueled almost exclusively by these quasi-religious political groupings.

It is already the case. If you look at the 20th century the most extreme violence was fuelled by fascism (secular, wanted to replace existing religions, some leaders like Mussolini were atheists) and communism (almost always anti-religious and persecuted religions).

I think maybe these ideologies opposed religions were because religions are rivals for capturing people's values and loyalties.
Isn't this a win-win situation? Now we all have an excuse to support outstanding sports people directly. Even better, that excuse can be used the other way if one is in need.
The blue and green colour small areas suggest this is a false color image that maps colours to a value and coincidentally looks like a fire.

Presumably it's measuring heat or something vaguely relevant but I don't trust my immediate visceral reaction to it.
Interesting. I suggested to dang some years ago to implement rel=nofollow, he did for jwz, but it seems like that's not enough anymore?!
MangioneFS / LuigiFS ?
Unless you need a small form factor and GPIO, I don’t think the Raspberry Pi is a good deal anymore. A Raspberry Pi, SSD, case, and power adapter would be much more expensive than well-known N100 mini PC brands like Beelink and Minis Forum. However, they still have low power consumption. So my answer is no. (Was a happy RPI4 user but now much more happy with mini pc's)
I don't agree at all, vcv rack helped me understand synthesis in a much deeper way than I would have otherwise. What's a retrigger? Oscillator drift? Why do you modulate with a lfo? These are much simpler to understand when you're patching modules by hand in vcv, especially when you start with a blank slate.

On the other hand, before vcv, seeing a vst synth just had me overwhelmed instead.

I'd recommend everyone reading this to get free vcv + the surge vcv library, and just play around with it.
The popularity is now mainly based around the software support and the product lifecycle.

With a lot of other SBC (single board computers) you're lucky to get a very of the Linux Kernal which works in the first place. The likelyhood it will get upstreamed or kept up-to-date with upstream is basically zero in most cases. Raspberry Pi has great software support and the original Pi 1 has only just become end-of-life and unsupported by Raspberry Pi OS at the end of last year.

There is also clarity on when the hardware will be produced until. For the Pi 5 for example they've commited to it still being produced until at least 2036.

Those together mean that if you're using it in industrial, educational, or embeded settings then you can depend on the board lasting a good while longer than other options which might become insecure and useless before the hardware itself fails.

This is slightly less of an issue for hobbyist who are running Homelabs or personal projects on SBCs.
If you look at all their accessories, particularly the country-specific customisations for keyboards and power supplies, Raspberry Pi now offers an incredibly large range of SKUs.
>I'm much more concerned about the ideology of the people who think information control is justifiable.

Indeed. That's only to justify blatant censorship. Reading books doesn't cause people to kill other people. If someone kills someone after reading a book, that person already had huge issues and was on the edge to kill already, and instead of a addressing the issue by investing more in helping those with mental illnesses, we take the dumb cheap and easy way out of blaming books, video games, forums, incels, toxic masculinity, etc.

Everyone is quick to blame incels but nobody asks why do men become incels in the first place and how to prevent that by addressing the causes and not the effects.

The truth is our current society has a disproportionate lack of safety nets and help available to males and male issues, when compared to females, hence why there's 10x the rate of suicides and homelessness for males vs females, and is also one of the reasons why men have statistically been going more conservative and right wing in the last decade or so. Yet nobody talks about this or wants to do anything to address this and just resorts to shaming men who draw attention to this as incels and "far right" and calls it a day.

When society takes away young men's communities (previously it was the church) and purpose in life, their prospect of building a family, good job (men used to be able to support a family by bolting bumpers to Fords in a factory) and owning a home, and demonize them for the sins of their fathers (patriarchy and male Privilege) while depriving them of any help, it's no surprise they become radicalized against the society that hates them and that void gets filled by manosphere bros who tell them it's the fault of the Rothschilds and that all women are hoes.
> "Olympians" representing their countries.

Yes, but people connected to Olympic want to be independent from governments. In some way Olympians Games are private tournaments which are sponsored by host countries.

It is funny that "Olympians" representing my country when they demands public money, but are independent from government when we are talking about organization of National Olympic Committee.
> bandwidth

Speculation has it at ~5XXgb/s.

agreed on the memory.

if I can I'll get a few but I fear they'll sell out immediately
Such is life. We all have regrets, and being sloppy and indifferent with math in my youth is a big one for me. If I had done it then, I wouldn't have to try so hard now.
"what you are speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
> Murder in the street is never justified

If a terrorist is running down fifth avenue with a bomb, would it be justified to shoot and kill them? What if the shooter isn't a police officer, but a member of the public?
It always struck me as odd that people use default config Windows power consumption figures for the N100 boxes. My 14 year old Sandy Bridge laptop can pull 1-2W idle on Linux with a modern desktop; a more modern SoC with fewer parts would be broken if it can't do that.

(I often bring out that old ThinkPad X220 to test software on older hardware, and it's so satisfying how fast that thing still is until you open the browser.)
Generally you will always have some system dependencies that you have to manage at the host level. It’s easier to manage those dependencies in the same way the consumers would, in my experience.

Containers make this a ton easier of course but then you’re building in a container and you probably wanna make that container match your target environment, soooo…
Show HN: SRTD – Live-reloading SQL templates for Supabase migrations
We've been happily building on Supabase for ~two years, two major DX frustrations aside:

1. The iteration cycle for database functions was needlessly complex. Some variation of this workflow was common:

- Find existing function/view/policy/etc in past migrations
- Copy to SQL editor
- Make changes
- Test
- Copy back to migration file
- Repeat

2. Code reviews were painful since every function modification appeared as a complete rewrite. Adding a single line in a 400-line function results in an entirely new file with +401 lines. No historic context, either. Lots of mental overhead for reviewers.

I have searched for tools/workflows to address this, but have came up short. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36007640, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755076)

So, over the holidays I paired with Claude to make SRTD (Supabase Repeatable Template Definitions), addressing these issues with a template-based workflow:

# Make a template with safely repeatable SQL
echo "-- some idempotent sql" >> supabase/migrations-templates/my_function.sql

# Edit your SQL templates, changes auto-apply to local DB
npx @t1mmen/srtd watch

# Generate standard Supabase migrations when ready
npx @t1mmen/srtd build

Key features:

* Live-reload for SQL templates (great for functions, policies, views, etc)
* Single source of truth for database objects, with history/functional git blame.
* Standard (Supabase) migrations as output
* Safe iteration with WIP templates that never generate migrations (.wip.sql)

Focus has been on Supabase migrations, but it'll work with any Postgres database using `20250109104647_migration_name.sql` formatted migrations with some configuration adjustments.

Happy to accept PR or issues for other migration file formats (or even DBs).

Project: https://github.com/t1mmen/srtd

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for improvement!
And causing someone's death is more than just "doing bad" to them.
Thank you. I appreciate the feedback and the pointers.
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make it wiggle its trunk.”

Impressive that he fitted against 1,2,3,4 and not the memory as input. That's a total blunder.

I should probably stop reading the article at that point, being aware of the the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I know exactly what you're talking about and have been in similar situations many times. For me it's not just limited to speech, but lots of other aspects. Sometimes it feels like being a ghost or some weird Star Trek like phase shift. E.g. one person walks out of a board game night to get some food, everyone stops playing to wait for the person. I walk out, things just continue.

What helped me a lot were 2 things:

1) There are ways to improve your conversation skills. Big topic, with lots of branches. Your speech matters. Your tone. Keep collecting interesting anecdotes. Culture some depth to your personality that is unrelated to work (e.g. interesting hobbies). Essentially train your charisma.

2) The big eye opener for me was the discovery that different groups of people actually react differently to me. I.e. I was simply friends with people who ... didn't care as much about me as I cared about them. The blunt fix here is to change your social circles. Not easy, but doable, slowly, over time.

The "interesting hobby" part of the charisma training actually helps there to connect to different groups of people.
Most people don't want deep conversations. They might listen more but you have to deliver the info piece by piece: I've been there (and then nothing) How was it? Pretty good (and the nothing) ... then they might ask more info about what they care (the weather, the bars, the museums)
that is what i would call a "micro-frustration" :-)
>Persistent shortages drove the real-world price up (no one was selling them for MSRP)

I see a lot of people say this, but I never saw this happen in the UK.

All of the official sellers sell it at MSRP.
One day, God willing, lol.
I kind of expected that reply and it just sounds like cold fusion to me. "We'll tell you how it works some other time, what matters is that it's going to change the world!" It didn't.
Definitely not less; used mini PCs typically idle at 10-20W on the low end (and some, especially older AMD, at 30-40W which seems insane!).

Even the better low-end N100's usually idle at 5-6W, which is double the Pi 5.

SoC idle temperature depends on environment and cooling solution; the N100 would quickly thermal throttle if you don't have a comparatively large heatsink attached. The Pi 5 will actually give you full performance for a minute or two before throttling (assuming no heatsink).

Other Arm chips are much better, efficiency-wise, but the Pi 5 is still more efficient than any low-end x86 build, especially used.
Show HN: Launching Directonaut – For Founders who hate marketing
The slow charge = longer life axiom is directly contradicted by this Stanford study on EV batteries:

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/12/existing-ev-batter...
Yes, but if there were a crime, then there'd be a legal remedy, so any vigilante action would be unjustified.

That something harmful is legal or effectively legal is a necessary requirement for a vigilante action to morally acceptable.
Hey HN! After years in marketing and then switching to dev, I kept seeing a fundamental disconnect: marketing tools assume you already know what you're doing, while brilliant devs build amazing products that nobody discovers.

So I built what I wish existed - an AI companion that teaches marketing through pair programming-style practice. You build your lean canvas interactively, understand your target audience through AI conversations, and get actionable feedback on your website's copy and design. The AI uses structured prompting with domain-specific knowledge bases and conversation memory to maintain consistent, high-quality guidance.

Would love to hear how other technical folks approach learning marketing? Project is at directonaut.com
IMHO The 5 should have been a separately-branded product line because it's not the best fit, cost-wise for someone just doing blinky, sensory, roboty stuff that would work fine with a 3 or 4.
I installed Debian on mine and that was literally it, job done.
At least for Nix you _can_ cross compile, but cross compiled and native compiled derivations are not identical - so if you go the cross compiled route you will end up building everything.

Another option is to use Qemu and binfmt_misc - that way you do get the result of "native" compilation, but it's slow.
The political bias I agree with is better!!1
Here is a data point: my mini PC server idles at around 5 watts, including external HDD. (At sustained 100% load it goes to 30W)
I totally concur.

I migrated most of my self-hosted services from multiple rpi (I've been using several of them for years) to a single cheap Intel N100 NUC that I purchased last year: 16GB RAM/512Gb SSD for 156€, and I've been very pleased with it.
For tinkering and GPIO stuff I still think the Pi is unmatched, but with the specs of these newer models and the prices, they seem to be entering more of the homelab/desktop/server segment, at which point these mini PCs we're talking about are a far better value proposition.

If you want to connect breakouts and do some electronics work etc, a Pi 4 or a lower-RAM/lower-cost Pi 5 is an excellent choice, for those who were using them to host software like I've been doing mini-PCs destroy Pis these days at the price/feature and price/performance level.

If the Pis weren't looking more like these mini PCs in features and cost, they wouldn't be coming up as comparisons.
We already know nation states like Russia will shill both sides of any controversial topic in the US, so you're probably right.

I doubt they're influencing this thread though.
Do we have studies for this that compare two controlled groups in same environment?

Don't fotget about "accidents" that spread Polio by vaccination on 120000 children, like Cutter incident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
You can buy a Pi5 2GB today for $50 (or sometimes slightly less) and that is really their premium product line.

Model As, picos, Zero Ws etc are all cheaper than that original PI price after adjusting for inflation and are typically more flexible in form factor and better CPU too.
> That's a key point. You're seeing things you find interesting as opportunities to add to the conversation. Flip this around, try to look for things that others would find interesting.

Hard disagree. Don't try to be someone you are not. The most interesting TED talks are not held because the speaker found a topic you are interested in. They exist because the speaker has a fascination about something that he explored and now talks about. Often this fascination is infectious and because the speaker has a way of explaining it, and talking that catches your attention. This would probably not interest you as much, if the speaker would not find it interesting.

Talk about things you like, not what you think other people like. If your friends are bored by that, then it's perhaps time to find friends that aren't.
So you think YouGov is part of the same "system" as UnitedHealth?
and keyboard!
I agree. While the hardware is a bit lower spec'd than what other SBC manufacturers like Radxa, Banana Pi and others have to offer, even at a better price, nothing comes close to how Raspberry Pi supports their products.

You get solid OS support right from the beginning, and HATs are designed for their boards.

I still have a Raspberry Pi 1st Gen running as an OpenVPN server, which I upgraded last year to the back-then latest official Raspbian 12.

I also have a Radxa ROCK 5B with 16 GB RAM which is crazy fast compared to the Raspi 4 (this R4 is currently the core of my network), but the OS support is a horrible experience.

So I just ordered mine, which will allow me to finally upgrade and merge 2 Raspi 4, and move the MongoDB database from the Radxa over to the Raspi again, since MongoDB stopped supporting devices up to and including the Raspi 4 around 3 years ago.

The only two issues I had with Raspberry Pi was the problem they caused when they upgraded the camera stack, and now the move from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS, which will affect around 5 of my older, low memory boards (mostly Zeros).
The only thing I want added to every programming language I use is the ability to call functions and handle data structures provided by libraries and services written in other languages without me having to write arcane wrappers.