skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is not too difficult for humans to comprehend, it just doesn't address the resource appropriation and geographic property claims on this planet. Aside from generational interest, conflict areas tend to have something obviously appealing about them, so there's nothing that a bigger picture nihilism helps with.
Both the video and related post are incredibly high quality productions. The animated circuit diagram on brown paper in the video is a very approachable way to explain the problem and solution. Nice! And it’s always nice to see some Australia pop up on my browsing.
Who is going to build a factory when there's a fifty percent chance the tariff plan changes the next day? Or a refinery? Or a mill? Or a mine?
> [Supernova discovery statistics for 2021] says there were 21,081 supernovae seen in 2021

> When the Vera Rubin survey telescope goes online, it’s expected to see hundreds of thousands of supernovae per year by itself.
> The observable universe is a mere 93 billion light-years across

As a non-astronomer, that number still always boggles my mind.

> Also, with the universe expanding, the observable size will reduce over a long time period.

Also boggles my mind. Also makes me think of doctor who when the stars start disappearing. I need to rewatch that...
Plenty of Democratic voters are on board with taxing the rich and flattening those economic hierarchies.

The problem has been that the Democratic party is the neoliberal wing of the establishment. Its purpose has been to create the illusion that economic progress is possible while working hard to maintain the economic status quo. Cultural diversity was the distraction and consolation prize.

Now the establishment wants full, unquestioned, totalitarian control now and no longer cares about maintaining the illusion of choice.

Ultimately it wants a country run on plantation lines with voting rights restricted to wealthy white male property owners, a "Christian" moral narrative (really just racism, greed, supremacism, and sexual opportunism dressed up in bible rags) and no independent sources of intellectual dissent.

Which means the bare minimum of public education, no science, no difficult or non-commercial art, no free thought in universities or academia, and as little free travel and contact with the outside world as possible.

The most comparable country is North Korea. So the likely end will be a heavily militarised and even more heavily propagandised country, run as a pampered inherited monarchy which tolerates a certain amount of education when it's useful, but is violently hostile to all dissent.

It's quite hard to get there from here. The shock-and-awe of the last few months were supposed to establish dominance, but it's not going to happen without resistance. Harvard is one example. There will be more.

Ultimately the military will be used to force compliance, and - absent a not entirely unexpected medical event - they'll decide which way this goes.
> in return he'll properly rewrite all the broken shit we have

Probably that's exactly what he doesn't want.
REI3 Tickets – open-source ticket system now with PDF generation
> The idea that AliExpress is just for cheap tat is less and less true, and products in certain sectors coming out of China are just much better value for money (and often, as good as, or better quality) than you'd find from homegrown companies.

Not just better value for money, I often find that AliExpress sells things I simply cannot find anywhere else.

A recent example: I was looking for something to balance the 3rd axis on my telescope, There are very few products on the market from mainstream brands and none were what I needed. On Ali I easily found several options. These are basically just machined pieces of metal so not really anything than can break.

Same goes for storage bags and cases. You can often find a bag or case specifically made for your device, while there isn’t anything for sale locally.
> the need for translating vague desires from laypeople into a precise specification will remain—there's nothing on the AI horizon that will solve for this

LLMs are very good at exactly that. What they aren't good at (I'll add the yet as an opinion) is larger systems thinking, having the context of multiple teams, multiple systems, infra, business priorities, security, etc.
I mean, there's a reason why he doesn't have it anymore.
FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirements
In this particular case, "when you see stripes with hoofbeats, think zebra, not horse with a paintjob"
The First Leaflet of the First World War (1970)
> As an example, I refuse to buy a doorbell camera that doesn't support RTSP.

This is a good example of conflicting security requirements.

Not wanting the video to go to the cloud is fine, but most cameras with RTSP enabled allow any other device on the network to trivially get the camera stream, and sometimes also control the camera. This is why some camera companies require you jump through hoops to unlock RTSP - I don't like it but I can see why they do it.

This is one reason I've come to believe it's necessary that every device must see a totally different network universe from every other, able only to see the local controller server. (This is how I ended up playing with on AP video relays in my profile, as an effort to see what's involved). Things like multicast discovery is cool, but an absolute privacy and security disaster area.
I was one of those people who always purchased American when things were being off shored, and I still do as often as I can, especially tools.

Do you know who made the Chinese made goods thing a reality? People from Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana etc. People went into a store, saw the cheaper item, often inferior Chinese item on the shelf and bought it instead of the domestically produced item, even the stuff that said "Designed in America, Made in China". They did this because it was cheaper.

I think you're mistaken if you think some external force "did this to us".

We all do it, some items are just not worth the exuberant price tag, especially if you're only going to use something occasionally.

At least from my observation, the balance was actually not so bad in the last 5 years or so, plenty of good American options available and cheaper Chinese stuff when that was appropriate. I think America will be worse off from this because the cost of so many things will be way higher now, DIY for example will be off the table for a lot of people. The cost of a drill will become ridiculous, for example.

I think ending the pipeline of landfill fodder from Temu is a great thing. That kind of consumerism is like eating a diet of pure sugar. Feels good for a second, but bad for the consumer, environment and economy.

There would've been other ways to go about solving the environmental impacts of Temu than this. In my opinion.
Paying more =/= quality, unfortunately. Believe me, I wish it were otherwise. Don't be afraid to open up those battery banks now and then if you want to be sure, put a meter on them and scope them if you know how, but you'll find what I typically find; a lot of the same cheap components all wrapped in a pretty package. But because one came from China and one was "made" in the USA, you'll pay a lot more for one than you will the other. You can probably guess which.

I say that as someone who works in manufacturing as a controls and repair tech for industrial IoT and electromechanical integrations (I wear a lot of hats, long story). Trusted brands like Rockwell, Siemens, etc aren't really doing anything that much different than their cheaper competitors and they know it. It's a big part of the reason why their business model includes aggressive pushes to keep their customer "in their world," so to speak, trying to be a one-stop-shop for all their control needs when good number of applications really don't need anything beyond a Koyo Click PLC you can get used for $50 on eBay instead of the $1200 A/B unit. Heck, I've seen automation cells that could have the PLC swapped out with a $20 Arduino and nobody would know the difference except the controls guy. I'd love to say this over-priced cult-like hooey is restricted to the automation industry, but it's definitely not, and bleeds all over a variety of consumer industries, especially those of personal electronics. We are getting ripped off left and right, but if there's a fruit logo or some inventor's name we recognize on the packaging, we're okay taking out a second mortgage to afford it.

In the end, the quality standards in many cases are just a lot of hot air, CYA statements and sales BS. Price is really dictated by the customer's perception of the product, and when you create that trust, legitimate or not, you get to price your product much higher than your competitor, regardless if your product is _actually_ better than theirs. They get away with this because, for the most part, customers don't take the screws out and actually look inside.

Now, that is not to say my experience is always true. There are plenty of companies that make their quality standards and testing pretty transparent so the consumer can review them at their leisure and make a choice. I'm just saying most do not, which creates a lot of shadowy areas where many companies can get away with things simply because they know nobody is looking and taking their word at face value.
I would suspect that if something is exclusively on GitHub, then it's not important.

There are many important Free Software projects such as GNU and Linux, and they've always stayed away from GitHub.
Because you are a consumer and someone who enjoys trash.

To be honest "consumer" is really one of the worst things to call someone, but I think it applies very well to someone like you.
The link goes directly to the "already visited" page - should instead be https://onlyvisitonce.com/
The best manager I ever had was a compassionate man. He was super kind and patient, but he was also firm and fair. He was consistent in enforcing rules and regulations, but he also understood human factors really well.
He was not authoritarian. He was more authoritative and he really acted more like a mentor than a manager. He knew how to give feedback in a way that was able to be received and actioned.
He was also approachable and liked having random chats with people and getting to know people.
I admired him a lot. He was the best manager I’d ever had and when he left the whole workplace took a turn for the worst. His replacement was just a huge doofnugget.
Show HN: UnitText – Unit Tests for Text
Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
In addition, production of LEAP engines is split between the US and France.
The Temu ads I see are so awful that they totally put me off from even wanting to look at their site.
I spent the last two or so months using it as an assistant for code and my conclusion is that it is terrible compared to even the free model of ChatGPT.

The incidence of bugs, it not understanding what you're asking or just generating code that is straight up wrong is much worse. Even with guidance it will often be unable to fix issues, leaving you to do all the manual legwork to get things working. Usually you're better off just having done everything yourself from the start.

During those two months they really improved GPT as well, its generation speed is now much much faster, and the quality of its output has become a lot better.
This is incorrect, but please expand on this because I want to understand the misunderstanding.
Mouser/Farnell etc don't have those? Or i guess not as many options.

I got my last esp-32 from Mouser iirc. In Europe. They finally sorted out EU fulfillment warehouses.
That was my takeaway: The missing bit is "software
engineering", which is not "coding".
it wasn't clear to me if this was the same as aws cloudwan (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-manager/latest/cloudwan/...) or some other kind of confusing network offerings to re-sell partner virtual appliances or what
Because it's subsidised or effectively subsidised by treaty - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

AFAICT it means that postal costs are only paid in the originating country, and receiving countries are still obliged to deliver.
Nevada had to pass a law fairly recently to ban the still-in-use practice of blaring sirens at 6PM to warn native americans to leave town.

There are still places in the west where the level of law enforcement is similar to Tatooine. Mostly in sparsely populated counties and very small towns, where attention from state governments, mainstream media and the internet is general can be avoided.
"Torrents can't do the massive market of livestream"
CAN do, why are we not using them is not technical reason, it is that most people just pay apple tv / netflix and not have to install anything on their computer, and UI / interface is 10000 times better.

or very similar point - i had conversation with some big youtuber and person was confused why he is not more popular with certain demographic. reason was that said demographic was watching on big TV and content he was filming was big head directly in front of camera. so they do not like having 3 feet big head right in front of them... most young people watch things on mobile..
Yeah, you have to try real hard to get a customs processing fee on a package from AliExpress. Customs literally can't keep up with the fire-hose of packages coming in from China, so the current deal is that they, AliExpress, charge and pay VAT and the packages just come through unscathed.

Order something from the US into Europe? Expect to pay customs most of the time. From Great Britain post-Brexit? Ditto. China? Rarely.
I’m liberal and I also find wokeness to be irritating, so it’s not just things Republicans don’t like. Like the above person says, it’s not just awareness of structural discrimination and the like, which I believe are real and ought to be addressed, but also a sort of rhetoric and militant attitude about it that honestly I find grating.
honestly, it looks like an unnecessary additional protocol to a REST API. Couldn't you just add a "LLM-description" (optional) field to any RESTAPI that provides a JSON description of how to use it? That's what it sounds like because every LLM already will have it's own "idea" of how to use a MCP interface. So why have a totally disparate thing.

Just seems like i+1 syndrome with computing.
Those Lolin32 are really a great form factor and they have the ability to recharge batteries. My only wish is that it should pass the battery voltage level directly to an ADC pin.
I think his point is that death is the default, and that we’ve never been programmed for indefinite life. The only thing he’s selling is a book.
> 1 supernova a century

A century being the amount of time it takes earth, one specific planet to orbit its star 100 times? What about all the other planets and stars?
The conditions are quite different in Germany than the US, but the very high reliability of ~12 minutes outage per year on average as mentioned in the post does mean that many if not most people don't think at all about power outages here. I can remember only a single real outage for me in the last ~20 years or so, and that affected only a tiny area and was very quickly fixed after it was reported.

It does mean that the average German is probably not particularly well prepared for power outages, I bought a better flashlight and a bigger power bank after the one bigger outage I experienced.
3 years is nothing! I have a production server with 2400 days uptime. At this point getting to 3000 is more important than security.
you can stream blockbuster movie which got released yesterday. DRM is important.
Hertz says hackers stole customer credit card and driver's license data
Is that not what PeerTube is?
I don't think he's saying it needs to be BitTorrent, just applying some principles from it.

For example, say you have a cluster of people on the call in the US and another cluster in the UK. Ping times are 100ms or more across the ocean, there will be some random packets lost, but ping times within the UK are around 15ms max. By working co-operatively and sharing among themselves the clients in one cluster can fill in missing packets from a different cluster far quicker than the requesting them from the originating host.

In general, the ability to request missing packets from a more local source should be able to improve overall video call quality. It still might be "too late", because for minimal latency, you might choose to use packets as soon as they arrive and maybe even treat out-of-order packets as missing, and just display a blockier video instead, but if the clients can tolerate a little more latency (maybe a tunable setting, like 50ms more than the best case) then it should in theory work better than current systems.

I've been mulling over some of these ideas myself in the past, but it's never been high enough on my TODO list to try anything out.
that's only because their hardware is extremely simple.

so the driver have little to screw up. but they still manage to! for example, the pci cards are all broken, when it's literary the same hardware as the USB ones.
Not by him but it does exist

https://ktock.github.io/container2wasm-demo/
>Also why does their website have to look so damn ugly?

Because it was made by coders. Old school coders. Backend coders.

>I know that's not what really matters for a git server, but I just can't take such a project seriously. "Who knows what else they didn't really care about?" in the back of my head...

Yes, a nice looking website, that epitome of project maturity and quality /s

(as if there's a shortage of barely working vaporware FOSS projects with great looking websites, because their creators are more into the whole hussle culture / fancy launch page / web design than coding)
Analyzing Open Source Projects with the SWOT Framework
Passenger's bathroom problem is another headache for Boeing
That’s interesting since this has been my exact opposite experience.

What type of coding are you doing? Did you locally roll your own coding assistant with a local model of DeepSeek or are you prompting via the web?
I think he is saying that we, like all life, are designed to reproduce effectively and then become unnecessary.
Do you really believe that the same safety standards apply to all products?

I bought an Anker Battery bank, which got recalled for some safety issue. There is absolutely zero doubt in my mind that some random Chinese seller would not have bothered with any of that. Likely such a safety issue would have never come to light.

Battery production is in China anyways. Do you believe that all Chinese companies adhere to the same standards and that companies who are trying to get some kind of brand reputation in the west would still choose the complete bottom end of battery production?
Lawyers say El Salvador blocks access to detained Venezuelans
In our battle against AI-written content, we launched UnitText as an alternative to use AI to review text, instead of writing it. I got the idea from this lovely book "Writing for Developers"[1] that recommended some quality prompts to use a LLM as what could be considered a copy editor.

I initially liked to call it "unit tests for text", which inspired a prototype,[2] a blog post,[3] and then this product.

We believe everyone is getting really fed up of reading content only to immediately understand it was written by a robot. At the same time, we don't think language models are completely to blame, they are just a tool, and it's on us to use them properly.

The idea of UnitText is that before one starts writing they define a goal and audience for their content. It could be a blog post, but also an email... at some point we'd like to offer different templates for various types of content.

The human is the one doing the writing, and they can then ask the AI to "review" (or, "test") the content, to see whether the goal was met, the explanation is clear, something can be added or cut...

[1]: https://www.manning.com/books/writing-for-developers

[2]: https://github.com/sealambda/unit-text

[3]: https://www.sealambda.com/blog/this-post-passed-unit-tests/
How I created a real-time F1 circuit tracker that updates every second on iOS
I’ve always been fascinated by Formula 1, and recently I challenged myself to build something I hadn’t seen done well on mobile: a live map of an F1 circuit that updates every second, showing the real-time position of all drivers.

At first, I had no idea where to start. The initial version of the app was just a static SVG of the track and a bunch of placeholder dots. But I quickly realized that turning this into something dynamic and precise was going to require a lot more work—both technically and creatively.

One of the hardest parts was figuring out how to map GPS or telemetry-like data (or simulated equivalents) to the actual layout of the track. Circuits aren’t perfect circles or squares—they’re highly irregular, and getting the math right to interpolate positions smoothly along the path took a lot of iteration.

Once I had the basic movement working, I ran into performance issues. Updating 20+ driver positions every second, animating them smoothly, and not killing the battery or CPU on an iPhone took careful optimization, especially when combined with UI features like zooming, rotating, or switching to other parts of the app.

From there, the app grew: I added race results, driver and team info, standings, and more. But the live circuit map remains the heart of it—a tiny simulation of the race, in your pocket.

I learned a lot building this, from low-level animation tricks to dealing with refresh rates and background tasks on iOS. If you’re curious, you can check it out here
RIP Jordin Kare.
> https://youtu.be/8D-S8nYCwjA?si=TZfnb2qrkiZdiYU6

Quite a helmet! Cool, eclectic video. With a bit of a teleport jump between the Pecos river and NY. :-)
:D I don't know why, but something about this made me giggle.
All countries give tariff exemptions to things that suit them. The US doesn't levy tariffs on oil and gas imports, for example.
So much wining....Wait until this gets to the US defense industries...
Our invisible borders are quite real when it comes to shipping. It's only the really big ones like Amazon which seem to be able to negotiate lower prices across the block, and that's just depressing.
No lessons learned from Oceangate?
Yet another take on entropy and information focused on Claude Shannon and lacking even a single mention of Norbert Wiener, even though they invented it simultaneously and evidence suggests Shannon learned the idea from Wiener.
Yeah, there are loads of cables, converters etc. that I can't get even from Amazon. Aliex has been the only place.
must be steve mann or one of his colleagues

https://alum.mit.edu/slice/hdr-pioneer-looks-future-wearable...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/steve-mann-cyborg/

https://youtu.be/Z9qiWqRPrcw?t=765
Datadog combined structured metadata from its incident management app with Slack messages to create an LLM-driven functionality assisting engineers in composing incident postmortems. While working on this solution, the company dealt with the challenges of using LLMs outside of the interactive dialog systems and ensuring that high-quality content was produced.
Obvious to you perhaps not to everyone. Self-awareness goes a long way
This is what will happen, it's why Americans and American got into the cheaper, Chinese made goods thing in the first place, there was a LOT of demand for cheaper stuff.

People will just do less, become more poor and have less opportunities or work around the system by smuggling things from Canada or something.
Trump admin has had rumblings about preventing Comac's access to the leap engine all the way back to the first admin.

They can easily do this.
According to NYT, “ of the $9 billion in federal funding that Harvard receives, with $7 billion going to the university’s 11 affiliated hospitals in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., including Massachusetts General, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.”
What OS are you running it on?