skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The battery powers nothing, but the microcontroller senses it’s voltage and when it is too low, it changes the behaviour of the thermostat to randomise the temperature cut in/out points by about 10 degrees Fahrenheit , making the thermostat annoyingly unpredictable in a way that is very similar to the typical failure mode of the old thermostat it replaced.

This should be criminally investigated and the person who ordered it be put in prison for at least a decade.
> On the level where the learning is done and knowledge is represented in these networks there is no evidence anyone really understands how it works.

It is hard to assess the comment above. Depending on what you mean, it is incorrect, inaccurate, and/or poorly framed.

The word “really” is a weasel word. It suggests there is some sort of threshold of understanding, but the threshold is not explained and is probably arbitrary. The problem with these kinds of statements is that they are very hard to pin down. They use a rhetorical technique that allows a person to move the goal posts repeatedly.

This line of discussion is well covered by critics of the word “emergence”.
Still mandatory in Finland.

They have "soft materials" (fabric, sewing, knitting) and "hard materials" (wood, metal working, 3d-printing etc).

In upper classes they have cooking and more of the same.
> putting pv panels on the many very large agricultural buildings roofs, is much easier to integrate

for industrial farming yes. This study is aimed at subsistence farmers in africa. ones that don't have much mechanisation.

> will in fact destroy the agricultural potential of land

Given that this study highlights the water conservation features of agrivoltaics, I'd say it has a greater chance of stopping salinisation of agricultural land from over irrigation.

> Also resevoirs can benifit/help in the same way with floating solar pv.

again, this is aimed at african farmers with limited infrastructure. this would be the stepping stone to getting cheap electricity
because he seems to be working on "fun hobby projects" not work
Not at first perhaps but they will notice when ad networks shift to take advantage of techniques that can no longer be blocked in Chrome.
Yet we've seen how centralising everything has made our world a lot less resilient. Redundancies are good, at least to a certain degree. If more people had a small vegetable patch, we didn't need as many soil-destroying farming mega-corps, and would use less aggressive fertilisers and herbicides, for example.
Best thing we can do to influence it is probably to use and fund forks such as LibreWolf, hoping that they are in a position to continue development once Google decides to tell the manager of Mozilla to finally destroy it completely.

(Yes, that is a joke I hope, but if I compare what I think a puppet controlled by Google would do to destroy the Mozilla brand to what Mozillas CEO has been doing, I think there is a lot of similarities.)
Note that income is not the definition of rich. It's just it's derivative. You may earn well, but that doesn't (necessarily) mean you possess much. Most wealth is inherited nowadays.
Can the Media's Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump's Second Term?
> The middle 60% (which isn’t the top 10% from the headline) spends more than $1000 a year on vacation. Cut that in half and invest $500 a year into the market and you would have a few hundred thousand for retirement (way more than typical retirement savings).

So middle 60% must slave away their whole life and save for retirement while 10% live their life to the fullest? $1000 isn’t even a spec on billionaire’s radar while for someone it represents a whole year of work to spend a day of rest from this dystopia.
As another example: vulkan3D made the mistake to use enum in its API.

Now, they must be sure it is a signed 32bits on 32 or 64 bits systems, namely check the compiler behavior. You can check the code, they always add a 0x7fffffff as the last enum value to "force" the compiler and tell developers (which have enough experience) "hey, this is a signed 32bits"... whoopsie!

We should eat the bullet: remove the enum in vulkan3D, and use the appropriate primitive type for each platform ABI (not API...), so the "fix" should be transparent as it would no break the ABI. But all the "code generators" using khronos xml specifications and static source code are to be modified in one shot to stay consistent. This ain't small feat.

[NOTE: enum is one of those things which should be removed from the "legacy profile" of C (like tons of keywords, integer promotion, implicit cast, etc).]
Who’s “broccoli hair” now? Take that gen-xers!
Do they really remove it? Because I've had several extensions get disabled and was only able to re-enable them after enabling developer mode (toggle at top-right).

I believe that most say "remove" because they get removed from the plugin-bar when disabled.

I'll ditch Chrome without a second thought if they really remove it. They'll lose access to my browsing history, so I don't see what they have to gain with it. What about the ads which are blocked at network level via PiHole?

Have they even considered that PiHole might then catch on and start blocking ads on mobile devices in households which would otherwise not use it?
I really don't get the hype around Agrivoltaics at all. It all kind of pivots of the idea that land for Photovoltaics is scarce. Maybe it is in the UK but in the vast majority of the world this is a non sequitur.

Cover the crop in shade cloth, and mount the panels on the ground / roof structures nearby. No need to over complicate things.
Screws are visible from the outside though.

In any case, all it takes to repair a phone with a glued screen is a two face suction grip for about 20 dollars and an ordinary hair dryer.

The nasty part of a phone repair, I will admit that, is scraping off the glue gunk - I had to repair a Google Pixel once where the battery was dead, and during removing the glue on the display unit border I apparently managed to damage the seal between the OLED display and the glass, exposing the OLED to oxygen which led to eventual oxidization and a new display panel.
I think parent poster's point is that those AI were independent equal-opportunity menaces, as opposed to tools of powerfulb humans to seize more power.
Ask HN: New things I learnt about HTML. Do you know anything more?
I had an intro web development workshop. First session was only about HTML. I learnt 3 things I did not know about HTML:

1. Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the end of a section, though they usually do [0]

2. A head element's start tag can be omitted if the element is empty, or if the first thing inside the head element is an element. A head element's end tag can be omitted if the head element is not immediately followed by ASCII whitespace or a comment [1]

3. Self-closing tags (<tag />) do not exist in HTML [2]

Please let me know if you know something else.

[0], [1] whatwg.org
[2] developer.mozilla.org
People do not understand subscriptions. I little a month looks cheap. They do not understand the technology or the economics.

If you are a landless peasant you know if you are being too heavily taxes - you can see how much the land produces. People have no idea whether they are overpaying for food at the end of a long supply chain, let alone for technology.

Another factor is when you are paying for many things, its only worth worrying about the most expensive as the others are relatively trivial. Compared to housing and utilities the rest is hardly worth thinking about.
OneDrive is sooo broken underneath. It should be a no-brainer to pick it, a sensible default, like Edge, but Microsoft always manages to fuck it up worse somehow.

It either just manages to work for you (count your blessings) or you'll have some cursed bit set in some forgotten Microsoft table somewhere that means you'll be doomed to a horrible experience forever without a clear cause.
Infinitely (not) syncing folders, disappearing files, cryptic or vague error messages. Even on brand-new machines.
That doesn't seem likely to me as I don't see how someone can get to be that rich without being incredibly motivated by more money. Surely a normal person would get a few million and decide that they had more money than they'd ever need?

But yes, likely motivated by power too.
For reference since people on HN seem to have a skewed idea of what income you need for each percentile.

Individual

- top quintile - $120k

- top 10% - $165k

Household

- top quintile - $167K

- top 10% - 235K

Source: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
... Oh, in the Pompeii eruption, not, like, breaking news. Given the general surreality of 2025 news thus far, would not be surprised.
Photovoltaic "fences" are one of those bizarre ideas that might actually make sense.
> they will want change by force

at no time has there been a good outcome from which this change made.

The people who applied the force merely swapped with those who had wealth. Essentially, they wanted the wealth, and co-opted the masses to enable themselves.

What we have today is relatively good. Just because you see some billionaire who have more yachts than you could ever hope to own, doesn't mean you aren't living a good life. At least the french revolution was in part about lack of food and starvation. I dont see america starving.
A lot of those revelations are due to majority of EFI code other than vendor specific drivers being quite open source unlike the bad old times.

Still would like an end to end open source UEFI bootchain, most groups end when they hit the 60% of stuff they need for their limited use cases : - |
Broccoli, due to high surface area, captures more fertiliser and pesticides that are difficult to wash out without soaking, which no one does. For this reason table broccoli is usually very high in added toxins.
It's very interesting how many "non-trivial" things can go wrong with power tools. Kickbacks for example. They sound very trivial when you know about them. But to the layman that does a one off cut with a table saw, circular saw, chain saw, angle grinder, ... it's not so intuitive.

One might say and be very careful but then a kickback shows up and causes brown pants at best, a life changing injury or death at worst.
> Failing a test will cost a user 600 points, or roughly the equivalent of 15 minutes of work on the platform. A correctly tuned penalty system removes the need for setting reviewer accuracy minimums; poor performers will simply not earn enough money to continue on the platform.

This still sets a reviewer accuracy minimum, but it is determined implicitly by the arbitrary test penalty instead of consciously chosen based on application requirements. I don't see how that's an improvement. If you absolutely want to have negative earnings, it would make more sense to choose a reviewer accuracy minimum to aim for, and then determine the penalty that would achieve that target, instead of the other way around.

Moreover, a reviewer earning nothing on expectation under this scheme (they work for 15 minutes, then fail a test, and have all their earnings wiped out) could team up with a second reviewer with the same problem, submitting their answer only when both agree, and as long as their errors aren't 100% correlated, they would end up with positive expected earnings they could split between them.

This clearly indicates that the incentive scheme as designed doesn't capture the full economic value of even lower-quality data when processed appropriately. Of course you can't expect random reviewers to spontaneously work together in this way, so it's up to the data consumer to combine the work of multiple reviewers as appropriate.

Trying to get reliable results from humans by exclusively hiring the most reliable ones can only get you so far; you can do much better by designing systems to use redundancy to correct errors when they inevitably do appear. Ironically, this is a case where treating humans as fallible cogs in a big machine would be more respectful.
This quote from "PHP: a fractal of bad design" [0] seems applicable here:

> Do not tell me that it’s the developer’s responsibility to memorize a thousand strange exceptions and surprising behaviors. Yes, this is necessary in any system, because computers suck. That doesn’t mean there’s no upper limit for how much zaniness is acceptable in a system. PHP is nothing but exceptions, and it is not okay when wrestling the language takes more effort than actually writing your program. My tools should not create net positive work for me to do.

[0] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Chrome took over long before Firefox dumped XUL. It was sticking to XUL with all the performance issues that let Chrome take over. Losing all the extensibility of XUL, and it being too late to take a thoughtful approach to design something that maintained that extensibility with performance and security, helped solidify Chrome's lead. A lot of people didn't see a point in using Firefox without extensibility beyond what Chrome allowed.
Well they may want change by force. But the rich make sure that they have people with weapons that are pacified.

And in the case of the US, you have people who willingly vote against their interest by demonizing other groups.
On the positive side, those of us on Firefox are going to have a great time as companies switch from trying to workaround ublock, to trying to workaround ublock lite
"Tears of Steel" was the fourth Blender Open Movie project. The first one was 2006's "Elephants Dream", then "Big Buck Bunny" and "Sintel".

From the more recent ones I highly recommend "Sprite Fright".
There was also a certain amount of hype about 3d optical data storage at the time. In practice, this is at this point more or less a dead issue, but it was very much The Future in the 90s. Also shows up in Star Trek TNG and on.
> doesn't mean you aren't living a good life.

unless you're in the bottom 50%

> I dont see america starving.

True, but starvation is a pretty low bar; obesity and all the related health problems due to an unhealthy diet (because garbage is the cheapest food and what the bottom 50% can afford in the US) is the modern version of starvation
Modern Standby requires that deepest sleep states take less power than S3 standby, the issue is mainly drivers and applications either waking the system or not putting peripherals into deep enough sleep (or shutting them down entirely if possible)
The problem is that this would have be to incorporated worldwide wise. Otherwise will capital first run to different cheaper state or different (tax paradise) country. I'm also not sure if alone would solve the problem.

IMHO we would have to probably have small tax on revenue rather than profit - so only something similar to VAT but smaller and without deduction. VAT seems the most honest tax since you pay it only for what you buy. Also maybe property tax but with cumulative different tax brackets (0 tax for first property). 50% average yearly rental tax for each property that is being empty more than 3 months a year - just to discourage and deflate real estate bubble.

Eventually we probably need overproduction for goods at the bottom of maslov piramid: shelter, energy, food, water, transportation. Robotics revolution maybe is some hope.
Why not just construct more homes?
Purging Scientific Datasets to Fight "Wokeness" and "Waste"
Hm, half-agree. Distribution and logistics and political will are a challenge. But so is lack of abundance (because that is part of what makes the other parts challenging).
I'm incredibly grateful for MIT OCW and consorts. I've been using it as a secondary resource for my subjects and learning about the same topic in two different ways is incredibly helpful, especially hard to grasp ones.
Airplane mode is still a thing.
Piketty was right. And yet, there are a lot of people who refuse to believe that inequality is getting worse or that it's actually a problem. (Coincidentally, those people are not in the bottom 50%.)
What a wild ride just a few comments in. Now we know why "Reddit users" are banned from the company. I may just be another rando internet zombie but reading that thread made me feel so alive!
> the ability to cut anyone from the respective financial system

not only that, but to sniff out those with whom they transacted. This causes a chilling effect, because secondary sanctions cause just as much harm.

It's also why i am against removal of cash based, anonymous transactions. It is needed, so that the state cannot cut off citizens at their whim.
What are the differences between open source and industrial projects that make Git suitable for the former but not the latter?
>George Washington...

Literally all the founding fathers stood to be wealthier by getting the colonies to work with Britain than against it. Like, this is basic fucking math. Dragging armies across the economy you do business in with the end result being you are on your own and can no longer rely on the dominant economic power for protection and trade agreements and whatnot is not how you get fabulously rich if you are already starting from "not peasant".

If you want to look at them through an economic lens the right one to choose is "the founding fathers were rich enough that they knew that even if revolution was bad on a macro level they'd still be filthy rich and wouldn't starve"

>But the poor will not benefit this time either. When things get bad for average people, it's just an opportunity for other rich guys to take the reigns.

I think you need to look at more revolutions. What tends to happen is a shuffling of the people who are already on top and the "HN class" of high end professionals, academics, media personalities, business leaders and other "peasants who are critical to the system" wind up in the gulags or losing their heads because the "fungible peasants" are pissed off at them for really squeezing out every penny until the system collapsed.
> There's no evidence that hypercomputation

I'm not the right person to ask this tbh. As far as I know it doesn't even well in theory. (Though I don't think they would make it useless to study)

> can in principle beat the Turing test

What's the relevance of the Turing test? It's been beaten for over half a century.
Worth noting that in C and C++ enum-typed variable holding a value not in the enum is a UB. Had some funny bugs because of that.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-c...
How about putting Other at the top? You can convince yourself that the value zero (or one if you like) is reserved for unknown values.
Yes, I use a (librebooted) Dell Latitude e6220 with 8Gb RAM and a 275Gb SSD when travelling, great apart from the low resolution screen.
How many parents actually teach their school age kids eg. math, physics, biology, etc.? (ie. the subjects they have at school)?
> worked half the amount of hours / year that we work

Source? I have some doubts about this claim. Are you sure this doesn't simply measure one form of labor while ignoring another?
It's not sneaking in OS updates, it's faster wake-up mainly.

Combined with properly prepared HW taking less power in modern standby than in S3, but it requires hardware/firmware/driver/userland confluence to work well
> You just can't tell if it is true.

But in the Penrose argument, we can start from a true system and use reflection to arrive at another true statement which is not deducible from the original system.

This is important to the argument as one starts with a proposed program which can perform mathematical reasoning correctly and is not just a random generator. Then, the inability to see the new statement is a genuine limitation.
The repo had already been posted. The reason I wrote the post is it's a bit hard to understand how you'd actually use smallpond for analytics.

When people see "duckdb", they're going to think they can slap it into their local analytics workflows, but it turns out that's not a good idea.
The 286 could process twice as many instructions per clock as an 8086. According to Wikipedia, an uplift similar to the 80486 and the Pentium over their predecessors.
It's a great question. Best we got is ~~RLHF~~ Potter's definition: I know it when I see it
Sadly a little late this news, maybe I can save my spawn.
But how such adverts would look like?
I think some Chromium-based browsers like Brave have pledged that they'll keep v2 around for as long as it's practical? Though IMO, people who depend on Manifest v2 with Chromium forks are running on borrowed time, Chromium moves fast and I can't imagine that keeping the Manifest v2 code working will be very easy. Especially if Google takes advantage of the limited access extensions now have to the HTTP request flow to do major refactors in that area.
A stock market crash mostly transfers wealth from the bottom rung of those who own stocks, who are forced to sell, to the top rung of stock owners, who have enough to be able to wait it out and then buy up the assets at low prices (and make a fortune when it goes back up).

It also causes a lot of companies to go out of business or reduce their workforce because of reduced consumer spending, hurting the working class more.
> To be under threat of not getting paid at all.

If they are operating as described, it’s almost certainly illegal. They deserve to be hit with a nice, fat PAGA lawsuit. These workers would have to satisfy the “ABC test” to be exempt from minimum wage obligations, and it’s a difficult standard to meet: https://www.labor.ca.gov/employmentstatus/abctest/

> I want to ask who is advising these startups regarding how they think of their place in the world, relative to other humans?

To me, this has been one of the most dispiriting things to witness in the last few years: not just the normalization, but the outright glorification, of indecency. Shameful.
Librewolf merely applies a few patches on top of Firefox. It is in no position to maintain Firefox without Mozilla.
Brave and Vivaldi will continue to support it for some time. Brave also does not really depend on MV2 as they have their own adblocker (which is about as effective as uBO, I believe).

edit: link to their adblocker: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
Revolutions happen relatively peacefully only when a significant part of the armed forces changes sides or at least refuses to execute orders.

With the transition from conscripted militaries to autonomous robotic weapons, there will be no more humans refusing to execute orders and no more traitors.

A future revolution will succeed only against a grossly incompetent government.
You don't know if they would be willing to pay or not.

I'd be willing to pay for a browser which truly had its users best in mind. As far as I know, no such browser exists.
The former; by amassing that much money, they gain the ability to both exploit the system to their personal gain, and shape it to their personal preferences, which grow ever less aligned with those of the general population. We're on our way to a techno-feudalism right now.
> I dont see america starving.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hunger-us-continued-multi-y...

> Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, a Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday said.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america

I mean, sure, they are not "staring", it's only hunger...
Still seems to me to be an under-appreciated resource.

Although, I admit, I've been waiting until Spring to buy a solar oven, so I guess I'm manifesting this reality.