MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exabrial | 2025-04-08 16:15:14+00:00
Yeah, no. That picture is disgusting.

Look at all of that natural habitat plowed through will diesel bulldozers, hauled off with giant diesel trucks, displacing animals and plants and insects. The habitat is permanently ruined.

This is dumb and shouldn't be celebrated.

Solar is fine in already disturbed areas. Stop clearing more land for "green" projects.
by grumpyinfosec | 2025-04-08 16:15:20+00:00
This makes alot of business sense, most orgs know better than to homebrew their mail env on (lets be honest here) "basement hosting LLC". So that leaves the people that are spamming/phishing as the core SMTP customer here.

We lost the personal self hosting fight long ago. I used to do it, but now i pay protonmail to do it for me and even that is losing its luster since proton technology IP blocks are pretty radioactive at this point. Some day will have join the outlook or gmail gang which makes me sad; but setting here in my chair staring at my orgs email firewalls and seeing 80+% inbound volume being auto-blocked as spam, bulk or phishing it make me wonder if anything of value was lost.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-08 16:15:28+00:00
>they banned the front runner marine le pen from running

She was convicted of embezzlement and remains ineligible to be a presidential candidate until the appeal is decided, which will likely happen before the campaign in 2027.

"Freedom" should not mean "being able to commit as much crime as I want without any repercussions." However, this is increasingly the definition right-wing politicians use—for themselves. Notably, this definition does not apply to undocumented immigrants, for example.

>I'm not from USA but this Trump = Russian hoax stuff was very well dispelled

I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to, but it's a fact that multiple Trump companies received funding from Russian sources. However, note that I did not accuse Trump of being a Russian asset. I said he behaves in a way I would expect from a Russian asset. Given that this is Donald Trump, there are various plausible explanations for why he does that.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-08 16:15:50+00:00
There are all sorts of things like this, but one that springs to mind is drones, specifically FPV drones. You can build a very good drone from basically parts that runs on open firmware. The videos that you see coming out of Ukraine is clearly using flight control software that is basically the standard for non commercial drones. Nothing more cyberpunk than fighting fascists using open source software and commodity hardware.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-08 16:15:52+00:00
Not really.

If you claim to support a particular format, then you're responsible for supporting that format, and there's no reason why a company would do that, if they have no intentions of supporting anyone other than themselves from accessing the data.

"Not supporting" != "Not allowing"

They may not be thrilled by third parties reverse-engineering and accessing their proprietary formats, and can't necessarily stop them, but they are under no obligation to help them to do it, and they are free to change the rules, at their own whim.

Think of Apple, regularly borking cracking systems. It may not be deliberate. They may have just introduced some new data that cracked the crack, but there's no duty to support the crackers.
by lm28469 | 2025-04-08 16:16:08+00:00
Daily reminder that fossils aren't decreasing and renewables are just added on top.

The only recent time fossil decreased was during covid, and even then it barely was a dent. To meet our climate goals we'd need something in the same vein as covid... constantly

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-08 16:16:19+00:00
> will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

Not really, there is going to be about a 40-year trough in the Chinese economy due to demographics. At some point soon, manufacturing in China won't make sense anymore, (and world wide demand will also decrease due to demographics) so presumably China will be able to decommission a lot of their power generation instead of adding to it. Will they axe their coal? Time will tell, but adding capacity will end, and not too far in the future, either.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-08 16:16:40+00:00
Just don't be surprised when you're passed over because someone else lied harder, and be aware that, like them, you're harming honest applicants by lying. After all, it's the same game.

That said, it's not surprising that humans are still okay with harming others to personally get ahead. A few thousand years doesn't cover a lot of evolution away from "fark you, I got mine".
by turtlesdown11 | 2025-04-08 16:17:17+00:00
> intentionally blowing up international trade agreements now allows the USA more time to rebuild strategic supply chains to counter further violations of the international order.

Sources?

>If the USA doesn’t have a secure industrial base and can’t reliably enforce the international order then there is no international trade.

The US reliably enforces international order and global trade now. Source where this is an issue?
by simgt | 2025-04-08 16:17:29+00:00
> But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.

Get a slice of humble pie.

The proof of American failure is also all around if you're willing to actually look. Urbanism, health, environment, MAGA, Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan. Easy to cherry pick, turns out many of us who have the luxury of being able to work in the US if they wanted to chose not to do so, maybe with good reasons? "Most successful" is very subjective. "Dominant", yeah, you are.
by rpgbr | 2025-04-08 16:17:36+00:00
I agree! As a journalist that codes his own site/blog, I've never took the time to learn anything more complex than good and old HTML and CSS to structure a page, and the short incursions I had in complex system (node, SCSS, frameworks), the returns for the kind of sites I developed was so little I couldn't be bothered to climb the learning curve.

HTML + CSS + sprinkles of vanilla JS is the perfect recipe for readable, fast, and high resilient web pages.
by mk_stjames | 2025-04-08 16:17:51+00:00
My constructive crit:

I'd really like to be able to just answer the puzzle without answering any of the intermediate stages. It is a much more challenging feat to just hold it all in your head and then type out the one long answer than to answer the individual stages. It promotes some real mental modelling skills that way.

The game, played as-is, is almost no challenge at all. It just feels like busywork.
by smusamashah | 2025-04-08 16:17:57+00:00
On YouTube kids app you can do "Approved content only" such that only channels/videos allowed/shared by you will be visible. This will be the kids profile under your own account. Found the reddit thread that explains this process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/179fqem/how_the_...

I have YouTube kids setup TV for my 3yo with videos from Vooks, Stella and Same, Guess How Much I love you etc. Also using Projectivity Launcher that has parental controls which means he can't just pick remote and launch the app whenever + an alarm clock app to limit watch time. It's an OK setup so far.
by julik | 2025-04-08 16:18:10+00:00
The vendor does not officially publish its dropped support. But from a brief piece of research I did, Jared dropped support for macOS 12 before Apple shipped the last update for it.

And while on a formalistic, nitpicky level it is a "what are you complaining about with your old box" - in actuality I do find the idea to require a CPU upgrade to run a CSS pre-processor (a CSS pre-processor! come on! not an H265 encoder. Not some sophisticated animation system. Not an AI blob. A tokenizer for HTML...) absolutely, completely excessive.

And I know why that decision came - it is because building portable binaries for the Mac is a pain in the butt. Well, guess what - if you made the call of shipping a multi-platform runtime - that backwards compat is part and parcel, Apple's LLVM versions, the linker and the dylibs and whatnot.

So no, I understand that you are "right" formally, but the situation this brought me to - I still find bad, and the choices made by the chain of maintainers - I still find inconsiderate.
by Izkata | 2025-04-08 16:18:40+00:00
I read this one:

> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching. People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

As "people who enjoy coding and didn't need formal training to get started". It includes both people who have and don't have formal training.

Both statements together are (enthusiasm + formal) > (enthusiasm without formal) > (formal without enthusiasm).
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-08 16:18:59+00:00
I too would be interested in knowing cost.

There is another comment that says that the contractor for Falling Water didn't follow design and include extra cement and rebar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621995

I don't know how I feel about the Wright organization's pushback; on one hand this was built in 2025, well after Wright's death abet to original prints(with only non-visible modifications due to code) so I would not be willing to call it a Wright house based on that.

However; if it is true to design, as much as possible(which happens in current builds too), then it is a Wright house.

On the third hand, I think Wright would not agree... I remember hearing stories of him going into houses he built and rearranging the rooms back to how he had set them up. So perhaps they are doing what he would do?
by watwut | 2025-04-08 16:19:15+00:00
Bravado on a personal level is the same kind of dumb. I can understand someone and conclude their behavior and reasoning are faulty, harmful or then call it dumb. This idea that everyone must project increasingly unlikely positive smart motivations onto Trump or conservatives in general despite what they say and do is harmful.

> I feel like if you pretend it’s 1850 and there’s some great powers struggle afoot, trump makes a lot more sense.

I would say, he does not. When there are powers struggles afoot, it is actually better to be capable to be strategic about who/how you antagonize and attack.

> The game theory around international relations hasn’t really changed much since then, there’s just a veneer of ideology strapped on top of it.

I would argue that it did changed a lot in between. International relations are not the same at all.
by tim333 | 2025-04-08 16:19:24+00:00
The article seems unrealistically favourable to Pakistan's government eg:

>Pakistan’s energy transformation didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s part of a broader pivot toward climate consciousness that has taken root in both policy and politics...

whereas in reality solar's taken off because the government is incompetent at providing electricity so people get their own panels. From wikipedia:

>Following 2022 dearth of imported LNG in Pakistan, the country indicated it would quadruple its coal power plants, which use domestic coal

Doesn't sound very "pivot toward climate consciousness" to me.
by fifilura | 2025-04-08 16:19:27+00:00
I'd also also be wary of the risk of being an architecture-astronaut.

A declarative framework for testing may make sense in some cases, but in many cases it will just be a complicated way of scripting something you use once or twice. And when you use it you need to call up the maintainer anyway when you get lost in the yaml.

Which of course feels good for the maintainer, to feel needed.
by SirMaster | 2025-04-08 16:19:33+00:00
You don't see a difference between a person spending years learning techniques to create art by hand, and spending months or years studying and practicing some famous artists style, and then spending days manually crafting drawing a single piece of artwork in the style and quality of the originals.

The difference between that, and a person just entering a prompt to create some drawing in some style.

The model looked at orders of magnitude more examples of artwork than a single human could look at and study in a lifetime.

To me there is a clear difference here.

I am merely saying that perhaps the rules should change due to the drastic change in time and effort required to do the work.
How do you interview Senior UX Designers?
by not_your_mentat | 2025-04-08 16:20:06+00:00
I'm currently a FE dev working for a company that makes a DB application (basically a fancy CMS for a niche industry). I've worked with great UX designers over the years at different companies but I've never been part of the hiring process for a UX designer.

I've been tasked with being part of the interview process for a UX designer. I've spent a bunch of time interviewing devs and being interviewed and I have a pretty good sense (as much as anyone, I suppose) for how to interview FE devs, but I've never been in the loop for hiring UX.

I know what's important to me as a FE dev and I'm senior enough that I have a bit of a sense of what's important to the company. That being said, I'm at the end of the hiring line and I've probably got 60 minutes max with each candidate. That's not a lot of time to secure good signal.

So, this is where I turn to you, dear people of Earth. Given my constraints, how do I best prep and deliver 60 minutes of human connection as an dev who loves design with (hopefully) a designer who's doing the thing?
by gyesxnuibh | 2025-04-08 16:20:36+00:00
Not all jobs are created equal. I know the quality control for software written for Web is very very different than the software written for cloud.

You're arguing that the standards for medical device firmware should be the same for Pinterest which is honestly just a waste of and effort.

I can see both sides of this specific discussion but treating SW engineering generally as rocket science is lying to yourself ;)
by andybak | 2025-04-08 16:20:57+00:00
"This is why when you hear people talk about how terrible it is at producing X, our takeaway should be "this person either hasn't tried to use it in good faith, and their opinions can be disregarded"

I'm playing devil's advocate somewhat here but it often seem like that there's a bunch of people on both sides using hella motivated reasoning because they have very strong feelings that developed early on in their exposure to AI.

AI is both terrible and wonderful. It's useless and some things and impressive at others. It will ruin whole sectors of the economy and upturn lives. It will get better and it is getting better so any limitations you currently observe are probably termporary. The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell.
by kkylin | 2025-04-08 16:21:00+00:00
Maybe. But at least in mammals, visual information processing is a very expensive operation that involves coordinated activity across many cortical areas. Vision being such a central sensory modality for birds, I do wonder if it was a strong driver for the evolution of their brains.

Edit: don't mean to imply a contradiction with the social interaction hypothesis -- needless to say there can be multiple factors that drive evolution in the same direction...
by mentalgear | 2025-04-08 16:21:29+00:00
I, for one, welcome the solar age. Truly clean power that can be generated decentralised, on a regional, even local commune level.

It's wild how big companies, certain countries and billionaires are still holding on to nuclear fission (not fusion).

Nuclear reactors:

- take decades to build

- go massively over budget, at least 2x if not more [0]

- are inherently uneconomically: energy companies would never invest/build them on their own, only by lobbying governments for HUGE subsides (in various forms) do they get build

- inherently uninsurable: no private insurance company would insure a plant, again if private companies would need to build/run them on their own, every insurance company would deny them

- deconstructing them takes again billions and decades

- there's still no real-world solution (or even long-term secure storage) for nuclear waste in the world

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Solar / Wind / Storage

Compare the 60 Billions for 1 single nuclear plant (UK) to what you would get from the same investment in solar (plus battery tech getting cheaper and better for storage). We are talking about differences in the magnitudes.

About the only value nuclear fission has is that's a central power source which gives the entities owning it huge power over the consumers.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/uk-nuclear-plant-hinkley-point-co...
by rdtsc | 2025-04-08 16:21:58+00:00
> as sourced back to a product it calls “cauldrons”

Then, the magician said "Abracadabra!" and poof! the money is gone.

> The company also offered a bug bounty to the hacker of 20% of the stolen funds.

Would that give them immunity from prosecution if they ever catch him. If not, what's the upside for the hacker to return anything back?
by sightbroke | 2025-04-08 16:22:51+00:00
Article is limited on numbers perhaps but does state:

> Phil MacDonald, Ember's managing director, said: "Paired with battery storage, solar is set to be an unstoppable force.

"As the fastest-growing and largest source of new electricity, it is critical in meeting the world's ever-increasing demand for electricity."

> Despite the rise in renewable power, electricity from more polluting fossil fuels crept up by 1.4% last year due to surging demand, meaning emissions from the sector rose too to an all-time high.

> Ember forecasts the growth in clean power will soon outpace the growth in demand, helping to displace fossil fuels from the system.

Is fossil fuel use growing at an increasing rate or decreasing rate? Is non-carbon emitting energy supplies growing at an increasing rate or decreasing?
by munksbeer | 2025-04-08 16:23:05+00:00
>I love using LLMs to generate pictures. I'd call myself rather creative, but absolutely useless in any artistic craft. Now, I can just describe any image I can imagine and get 90% accurate results

May I ask what you use? I'm not yet even a paid subscriber to any of the models, because my company offer a corporate internal subscription chatbot and code integration that works well enough for what I've been doing so far but has no image generation.

I have tried image generation on the free tier but run out of free use before I get anyway pleasing.

What do you pay for?
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-08 16:23:20+00:00
The point of fission is that it still yields power even when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. The alternative is to run gas peaker plants, or even dirtier sources like coal. Storage is a non-starter, even the best form of energy storage (pumped hydro) cannot cope with a dip lasting more than a few days or weeks.
by bubblethink | 2025-04-08 16:23:37+00:00
The end goal is progress and prosperity. Semiconductors are one of the few areas where there is rapid progress. Depriving your large working age population of the tools they need to improve their lives is counterproductive. The problem statement at hand is that you have a poor country plagued by graft and bureaucracy with the only sliver of hope being technology that can create upward mobility for your billion+ people.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-08 16:23:57+00:00
It is increasing. At the moment it is slowed because for the longest time we were fine with just hydro, pumped hydro, gas peaker plants and the natural inertia of the power plants' turbines and generators. Now demand is big enough that even lithium-ion is deployed for grid storage, despite lithium-ion being optimized for the opposite use case (light portable power storage). Lots of options that are more optimized for grid storage are in various stages of development, but it takes time for them to be brought to maturity and for operators to gain experience and confidence with them.
by computerdork | 2025-04-08 16:23:59+00:00
True, all the crap that we have to deal with does make you question why you're doing it - thought of another one, often, you're working on some very small piece of a feature you don't care about, working for months on end.

Still, for me, at some level always enjoy the act of building something that needs to function in the demanding environment of the digital world (especially, high-volume applications). Yeah, it requires you to use your experience and training to solve difficult problems and produce a real result. For me at least, this typically enough to keep me going:)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-08 16:24:16+00:00
I'm sorry you feel hurt or harmed by someone. I've felt that, too, and it really sucks. It's not a good feeling.

I avoid recruiters unless they can serve me well, too (increased salary, signing bonus, etc), instead preferring to applying directly to individual companies whose mission is interesting and whose culture matches mine.

That said, I don't think hurt is a valid justification for hurting someone else, like the innocent parties I mentioned (potential future coworkers, other job applicants). That perpetuates a chain of hurt. Break the chain.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-08 16:24:17+00:00
Every single country on earth, except China, that has a more robust and profitable machine tool sector than the US has unions strong enough to make a social media libertarian shit their pants.

Indeed, the three countries listed in the report as being better than the US all have EXTREMELY strong machinist/metalworking unions.

Japan: JAM

Italy: FIOM

And Germany, with probably the most powerful union in the entire world: IGM

The problem isn't unions.

The problem is the parasite MBA class, shuffling memos and spreadsheets around to make it look like they're doing something.
by dogleash | 2025-04-08 16:24:45+00:00
>healthy middle ground

I think it's worthwhile to point that if you're using "panopticon" in the literal sense (rather than shorthand for "boy that feels too far to me") then any surveillance that relies on 3rd parties [1] and gag orders to avoid making the target aware is, in fact, already the full panopticon scenario.

In that case the bounds on your middle ground make what is between obvious: information is obtained by warrants served directly to one or more participants in the communication.

[1] In the "3rd party doctrine" sense
by harlanlewis | 2025-04-08 16:25:03+00:00
Lots of good recommendations in replies.

Calling it out only because I don’t see it mentioned - until last year, Bartender was one of the popular go-to tools to manage menu bar items, but it fell from favor after quietly changing owners, changing certs, general shadiness https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/psa-bartender-mac-app-u...

A specific and relevant reminder why open source is so important for system utilities.
by jchw | 2025-04-08 16:25:05+00:00
> there will be no error output, you won't know why it failed

That's probably why the -x is there. (Well, that and if something like curl or sudo fails it tends to output something to stderr...)

> Pipefail also doesn't prevent more complex error states ... A corrupt executable is left on-disk (which will be attempted to run if your step had failure-skipping enabled)

If I'm reading right it seems like you're suggesting is that the case pipefail doesn't handle is if you explicitly ignore the exit code. That doesn't exactly seem like the most concerning catch 22, to be honest.
by rpgbr | 2025-04-08 16:25:07+00:00
Many apps offer hiding their menubar icon as an option. I'm always looking for that option and I managed to get a super clean menubar[1] — without sacrificing features or apps I need. The “11m” icon is from a little gem called Aware[2].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/0AFL1rU.png [2] https://awaremac.com/