skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even 100 psi of plain old compressed air is no joke. After I plumbed my garage with metal piping for compressed air, I had a neighbor who was inspired to do it, too, but he cheaped out and used PVC despite my pleas to him to think about what he's doing. You are probably already guessing how this story ends, but by some miracle it didn't end with an injury. Of course, one of the PVC fittings failed catastrophically, and a metal quick-disconnect fitting launched across his garage at high speed, busting through the garage door like it wasn't even there. Fortunately there were no human bodies along the flight path, and I hope a lesson was learned.
If you actually read TFA, they don't single out DeepSeek. Rather, the claim is that all 'chain-of-thought' models have this vulnerability. Obviously, you'll get a lot more clicks if you mention DeepSeek in the headline.
I'm sure you didn't miss the point on purpose - the parent made a silly claim implying US healthcare was uniquely bad when the truth is both approaches have huge problems. In the US you can get care any time, as long as you can afford it. You might die if you are poor. In many other countries care is free or cheap but you may die waiting.
According to this article, year-over-year, EV sales are up 18% (globally)

https://rhomotion.com/news/global-ev-sales-grow-by-18-in-202...
It's also not entirely irrelevant for why they succeeded.

Existential threat arguably is a much better motivator for making the sacrifices necessary than "wanting".
A little context on the creation:

For over 3 years I've been running several TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of subscribers that earn me a decent amount of money.

I have 6 years experience in development and I wanted to automate the video creation task with AI.

I created a first version a year ago.

And today I'm releasing a much more accomplished version, with a long-term vision.

I want to create the best tool to help people who don't have the skills or the time to create good videos that perform well on social media.

You can start with just a prompt, an article url or give you own asset which will automatically be intelligently placed in the video.

All the editing is super-simplified, and you can modify your videos in just a few clicks.

Creating a video by hand used to take me 1 hour, now it takes me 5 minutes.

A video takes 1-2min to create, so give it a try!
Amazing to see the Republican party sell the US and its allies to Russia.
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My bad, I misread! Thanks
> "Batteries aren't produced at remotely enough scale to be viable for grid storage."

The idea that if we can't have a renewable grid identical to the fossil fuel grid, then we may as well stick with the fossil fuel grid even if it means the end of the world is a bit weird.

The UK's biggest energy need is heating, but the housing stock in the UK is famously shitty, 38% of homes were built before 1946 and it's the worst value for money of any developed country[1]. It isn't well insulated, triple-glazed, heat-pump fitted, using local industrial waste heat for home heating.

Heat is harder to move than electricity, but easy and cheap to store - this 2019 pilot project can store 130MWh of heat for up to a week[2], something we couldn't reasonably or cheaply do with 130MWh of electricity.

It's possible that energy and electricity requirements could be reduced meaningfully without dropping quality of life, and that meaningful amounts of energy could be stored in heat and synthetic gas[3] rather than in more expensive electric charge storage.

[Is this used Nissan Leaf at 30kWh for £2,000 the cheapest battery storage I could buy in the UK right now?[4]]

[1] top few results from https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=uk+housing+stock+low+qualit...

[2] https://www.siemensgamesa.com/global/en/home/press-releases/...

[3] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/were-going-to-...

[4] https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202502289581699
For advanced end users? why would they ditch: https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/ ?
640K of RAM should be enough for anyone.
Yeah. The travel on the Apple Magic Keyboard, which I can't seem to pry myself away from, is around 1.15mm.
Potash, Uranium & Oil are from Saskatchewan & Alberta. Those provinces won't put on an export tax because that would be "unfair" to those two deeply conservative provinces. There are a lot of MAGA supporters in those two provinces.
It is, but it's really on life support. It's supported for legacy development in the most part. There are so few people coding in it now you'll never see any example or tutorial .NET code in VB.NET.
So, I live in the corner of Austin (SE) where a lot of the Waymo autonomous cars are based, so they're on the road next to me a lot. At first, always with a human in the car, but lately without. So far, they don't do anything too crazy. What I am curious about is what happens when they become numerous on the road. Rumor has it that an earlier attempt in downtown Austin resulted in gridlock, with a bunch of self-driving cars stuck.

In a situation like that, humans are more likely to figure out that they need to break the rules in order to break the gridlock (although it certainly can happen with human drivers, but in almost 30 years of driving in Austin I've never experienced it). For obvious reasons, self-driving cars are not usually given this kind of programming.

Of course, if they're always a small percentage of the cars, it's not really an issue.
You can have symbols if you want.

It's just kind of unnecessary when you can just learn the layout. It's not a big deal, I've used blank keycaps for almost two decades across multiple different layouts.
> If we need to do anything, it's get behind Ladybird

and servo please ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyrXZHudkXA
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Looking for remote opportunities where I can apply my expertise in infrastructure, automation, and problem-solving to help teams build reliable, high-performance systems.
Google settled a $5 billion class action lawsuit over this fact in 2023, though to little practical effect:

<https://apnews.com/article/google-incognito-mode-tracking-la...>

Yes, "Incognito" largely only removes local activity history, doing little if anything to disable remote tracking. Though there's some (very slight) advantage in having cookies and the like be made temporary. Access to other identifiers, including Google's ad identity and device-specific identifiers is probably still available. (I'm hazy on this and the situation changes, though at a ground level capacity-to-track largely remains intact over time).
One explanation would be an agreement with Putin softening support for Iran in exchange for US softening support for Ukraine.
Not just farmers, pilots, and anything that flies long distances will be hugely affected.

Pilots rely not just on forecasts, but also warnings like turbulence, icing, thunderstorms, low visibility, etc. Without precision, and relying on other sources will cause a higher risk of encountering unexpected weather. It will increase costs, as they'll have to subscribe to alternative weather services, emergency responses will be affected as well. Need a helicopter to medevac someone? Well, better hope they updated their weather subscription, and that it covers the area you need to be evcuated from and to. It'll also increase delays due to the adverse weather events encountered unexpectedly.
Usually retail prices are regulated so it will be the utilities eating the difference, won't it?
Not everyone enjoys composing music, and for a large group of people paying an artist is not an option. There's a lot to critizise about current AI tech, saying of all things this has no net benefit seems like the wrong thing to call out, and incredibly short sighted for HN.
I'll just.. leave this here

https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace
Mostly because that format is not strictly speaking Windows-specific but comes from Unix System V release 4. Also various oddball embedded platforms use the full NT-style PE COFF as their native object/image format (but these usually either specify i386 as machine type or place some invalid value there).
In moments of difficulty I often remember to practice things I learned from that book, so yes I would say that reading such books can have tangible effect on real-world behavior.
It's not in good faith to constraint the discussion only to the arguments that you agree with.

You should know this by age 8, come on.
Yes.

From your link:

"Events that last more than two days over most of Europe happen about once every five years."

I belive that for the EU as a whole, enough for two days works out as about 32 kWh per person. More or less for specific nations.

So, think in terms of what you'd repurpose used EV batteries for prior to fully recycling them.
> In the worst-case scenario, they would be 2-3 years behind the cutting edge, which is not mission-critical.

It's also worth considering how such an event might affect the US and allies. Would it slowdown, perhaps even halt certain operations/efforts for the US. For instance, all those chips the US needs to build supercomputers for "weather research". ;)
tell me more about the video streaming and communication aspects of this. Just skype (haha), zoom, and text messaging/phone calls?
Tiny wins: the big benefits of little changes [the post from 2018]
Hey, just a shoutout that I love this platform, had a lot of fun playing several games with my nephews, high quality games with almost zero ads, kudos!
So putting paid humans out of business is your position then? Please explain why you believe in the long sighted view AI reducing already poverty level wages to zero is beneficial.
No. It's not literally infinite contrast.

On the other hand, there's very little light spill from DLP--- and what little there is, is attenuated by a really big factor by the LCD.

I'd guess the limiting factor is light scattered elsewhere in the room and by the front surface of the display.
I've literally written a dozen of answers, that I then removed, because that question that you asked goes in the direction of life planning and life goals, it turned into a kind of personal exploration, but also I can talk horse for hours. because this place is trolled by ais and dimwitted copy cats, whenever I hit some deep truth in the many answers that I've written, I'm reluctant to just post them to public like that, so I'll be brief and somewhat superficial: horse business is very volatile, as is it can provide me with a modest living, as I get better I get better control of volatility, but then I encounter some global effects, that I didn't think about. For example horse business was booming during covid for obvious reasons, but then we had an economic downturn, and last year on top of that we had drought, so everyone I know is hurting. but a lot of volatility is inherent: you can buy someone's field puppy at discount, who is otherwise papered, well broke and sound, put him through few months of tuning, and then hit jackpot because two people got into a bidding war, going way above the value. on the other hand there's all kinds of events that can eat away at horse's value, vet visits, freak accidents, and the longer you hold him the higher the probability. in the most catastrophic cases the value goes to zero. getting good margins takes a lot of experience. there comes I believe a point of certainty, where you've been doing it long enough, you've settled in your niche, you have a global view of risk profile, you have mitigations in place, you're no longer faking inner stability in front your heard, you are living it, when things just work, I'm not quite there yet, but I'm sure I will be.
There's already a huge library of royalty free music available and even just AIing some music up doesn't fully protect you from strikes if it hallucinates something close enough to an existing song.
Thanks for sharing! I really need to update my wigwams directory haha. Suggestions welcome!
I mean, see Doctor Strangelove. If you have a doomsday weapon, that’s only helpful if you _tell_ people about it! If China had built loads of warheads, they’d hardly keep that secret, as most of these point of having loads of warheads is for everyone else to know you had them.

Realistically, by the time China and France got on the nuclear scene, doctrine had shifted from “nuclear torpedos, nuclear guns, nuclear landmines, nuclear everything” to “you have some submarines with missiles; you can have other stuff if you want, but no-one cares about it”. There’s little point in having thousands of warheads, these days.

(The UK did briefly go down the ‘nuclear everything’ road, but pulled back for cost/sanity reasons)
Can anyone ELI5 what the situation with the Android ID is when no Google account has ever been created, and all app installs are through an alternative store interface, whether a front-end to Google Play (e.g., Aurora) or a freestanding store (e.g., FDroid)?
That’s a lot worse to type, but good to know.
I think the power only targets New York, Michigan and Minnesota

and upstate NY is all republican voters which borders Canada. Id think that's the area that actually effected? Blue/Red state is misleading, you need to look at smaller areas to see how people voted. Its urban vs rural for the most part.
Not Working, Not Studying, Not Happy: Meet the NEETs
A democracy yes but what percentage of Taiwanese media are in the pockets of NED and USAID? That, and the fact "feel good" narratives of idealism sell better than the cold hard reality of power struggles, dominance, control, and backroom dealings. Taiwanese polities suffer from some of the same issues US voters are familiar with - a choice of lesser evil from bad candidates, unaccountability of politicians once elected, polarized media and electorate, etc etc. All great features not bugs from the standpoint of someone (a lot of someones, both Chinese and US interests) seeking to divide and conquer from the outside
Shit Full Self Driving?
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Technologies: React, Typescript, Nextjs, TailwindCSS, Redux,
HTML/CSS, Figma, UI Design, UX Design, Product Design, UI/UX Design

Résumé/CV: https://francesco-bianchi.com/resume

Email: francesco@cmdshift.studio

I am a Design Engineer looking to join a cool team/product. I am passionate about building apps, websites, and other software that merge form and function with elegance and simplicity.
Prior to engineering, I worked as a Product Designer for 7 years, designing delightful consumer apps (N26), news and media websites (Edenspiekermann), complex B2B platforms (HiPeople), and more.

Some links:

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Latest project: https://quartzite.ai (bootstrapped app, I did everything alone from design to development)
> If your privacy requirements are so strict

It's not really about my privacy requirements, but about living in a society where someone can investigate and organize against the powerful, without their own computers/phones/cars immediately ratting them out, and without needing a team of security experts.

Though the line for when lack of privacy starts to hurt us is much lower than people think, like Doordash stealing tips from their workers, that in a privacy-respecting society Doordash wouldn't even know about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040984
I usually use `curl ifconfig.me`
Agreed. I tried asking the models to outline a strategy and they can produce a decent output although not as robust as I expected. I'm sure you could fine tune an LLM to be good at Tic-Tac-Toe too but the surprising thing to me was how LLMs--even top ones like gpt-4.5 don't generalize well enough to be half decent at a simple game.
Here's a great example of the "victim mentality" that has taken over the US of late.
Microsoft is exactly the kind of vendor that will be inserting those small delays in weird places to keep a popular-but-broken device working better. Their focus on backwards compatibility has historically been very strong, and at the same time that has often lead them to not even attempt to clean up their platform. NT came to be largely because the legacy mess got too hard to deal with.
Triangle of Separation
Ergonomic equipment doesn't matter as much as we think. While ergonomics can help stress per unit time on the muscles involved. Tissue capacity or how much our tendons and muscles can handle while we are working long hours are often a larger contributor to wrist & hand RSI issues.
I would say the judgement that suffering is bad and that preventing suffering is worthwhile, which requires “worthwhile” to have any real meaning at all would be the religious part. These are completely unscientific and unprovable assertions.
The unsung hero here is probably the nice!nano. Such a good little board. I've made my own split keyboard around them and it just makes so many things I thought I'd have to think about Go Away.
I'm not a transportation analyst, but this might be a reasonable comparison.

In Chicago there's a commuter rail-line that carries 6,171,000 passengers per year (~17,000/day).

There's a tollway that runs roughly the same route that carries 240,000 vehicles per day. Even if you divide that across 8 lanes you get 30,000/day. That number would go up if since there's often more than one person per vehicle.

Trains and rails are amazing at moving people between fixed points during rush hour, but are vastly underutilized the rest of the time.

In the future, it would be great to see rail lines replaced by dedicated self-driving lanes where cars could safely go 100+ mph.
Ask HN: Clear, Open E-Reader?
I'm looking on the market for an ereader, one that is (reasonably) open and that lets me sideload epubs, ideally supporting Calibre. I have about 50 epubs of classic works that I'd like to read, sourced from Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg.

I'm willing to pay for something that has the following:

1. Clear screen (ideally close to the Kindle Paperwhite, but just clear in general)

2. Annotation support (either highlighting/notes, or both)

3. Some way to read articles (does this even still exist anymore?)

4. Sideloading, no full lock-in is a must. Willing to jailbreak if needed.

5. Reasonable page-turn speed (less than 1 second)

Are there e-readers that fit most of these?
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The request is valid; you just need the right tools for the job.

Story Jam lets you design chord progressions without needing to know about music theory, instead offering intuitive terms like "lightness", "darkness", "drifting" and "roaming". They mean about what you think they mean.

https://storyjam.tenpens.ink

I'm planning a "Show HN" post for tomorrow morning EST with more details. But you can get the sneak peek here :)
The G in ESG stands for governance.

A couple of years ago it was a meme to ask why Tesla got poor ESG scores compared with random fossil fuel producers.

Part of the answer was the Governance of Tesla being really bad.

Another part was Musk just refusing to file the paperwork to get a decent score. Which he wouldn't get away with if the governance was better.
Are wind farms noisey?
The information is probably lost, training on very long inputs is expensive, we usually train on short inputs and only send longer ones at the end. So the author name would not appear together with all the chunks unless it appears on every page in the header, assuming the headers are not stripped out first.
The US is pivoting from Europe to the Pacific precisely to better protect the likes of Taiwan. The Trump admin is filled with China hawks. Taiwan doesn’t have trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of people to fund its own defense, Europe does.
Hi! Author here.

Yes, this is another one which greatly benefit from, and I forgot to add, I'll update the post.

I'd say more generally: being able to use those executable scripts inside other scripts, subshells, and other environments that don't use the `.bashrc` aliases by default.
> China doesn't want Taiwan for TSMC. They want Taiwan because they see them as a rebellious province. In their mind, the Chinese civil war never ended and that island is the last bastion of the Kuomintang. One way I've heard it described in a way that is easier for Americans to understand is; Imagine at the end of the American Civil War, a confederate army retreated to an island like Cuba or Hawaii, they took it over and have been calling themselves the real America ever since.

We know this version is closer to the truth because Mao tried to take Taiwan
Dynamic music generation for interactive media seems like a good reason?
nope. ppl only care about price. remember all the DEI stuff after flyod. its all died down.
I made something that played noughts and crosses (same thing) perfectly. Knowing what responses you will make and taking into account reflections and rotations I had a state machine with barely more than 100 states. It really doesn't need AI, but an LLM is a language model for goodness sake, give it a job it can do.
> DUNE is (one of?) my favorite non-fiction reads

> non-fiction

I have some bad news for you...