MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ta1243 | 2025-04-29 12:06:10+00:00
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f4476083e9854ba3

Richard Tice, the Reform party’s deputy leader and energy spokesman, said the events in Spain should be a warning to Britain and showed the risks of net zero.

He said: “We need to know the exact causes but this should be seen as a wake-up call to the eco-zealots.

“Power grids need to operate within tight parameters to remain stable. Wind and solar outputs by contrast, vary hugely over long and short periods so they add risk to the system. The UK’s grid operators and our Government should take heed.”

That's the same Richard Tice that blamed a substation fire on Net Zero and wants to tax renewable power to subsidise non-renewables.

A roundup of people jumping to conclusions is at

https://reneweconomy.com.au/spains-blackout-has-already-trig...

> The core priority of grid services right now is getting power restored, rather than establishing the narrow chain of causal events, which will take weeks or likely months. That will be more than enough time for the narrative to be set in stone; immune to whatever reality emerges from careful investigation.
by atombender | 2025-04-29 12:06:12+00:00
Reading the web site, I just noticed the open-source version does not have "Log query endpoints".

Does that mean you have to use SQL (or the visual SQL builder) to query logs, and you don't get access to a log query language the way Kibana gives you KQL and Lucene syntax?

If so, I think it's a little disingenuous to write an article comparing the ELK stack, which is open source and comes with a perfectly usable query UI, to Greptime's equivalent, which is not.
by aristofun | 2025-04-29 12:06:37+00:00
I see much more histeria and false but extremely high hopes, than real deal from where I sit (deceloper at faanglike high tec company).

Looks like the higher the management, the farther away from real engineering work — the more excitement there is and the less common sense and real understanding of how developers and llms work.

> Are you 10x more efficient?

90% of my time is spent thinking and talking about the problem and solutions. 10% is spent coding (sometimes 1% with 9% integrating this into existing infrastructure and processes). Even with ideal AGI coding agent id be only 10% more efficient.

Imagine a very bright junior developer. You still are heavily time taxed mentoring him and communicating.

Not many non technical people (to my surprise) get it.

Based on posts and comments here there are plenty “technical enough” people who don’t understand the essence of engineering work (software engineering in particular).

Spitting out barely (yet) working throwaway grade code is an impressive accomplishment for TikTok, but it has very little to do with complex business critical software most real engineers deal with everyday
by TuxSH | 2025-04-29 12:06:42+00:00
IANAL, however:

> maybe also change the license to GPLv2

Without a CLA, that's not doable without the approval of all the contributors.

Furthermore, the point of these libraries (libogc, libctru, etc.) are to be a FOSS SDK. Non-permissive license like GPL aren't really an option in this situation.

If I'm not mistaken, RTEMS has been relicensed to BSD-2; even if the licenses were incompatible at the time, they don't seem to be anymore.
by ljosifov | 2025-04-29 12:06:46+00:00
I'm enjoying this ngl. :-) Alibaba_Qwen did themselves proud--top marks!

Qwen3-30B-A3B, a MoE 30B - with only 3B active at any one time I presume? - 4bit MLX in lmstudio, with speculative decoding via Qwen3-0.6B 8bit MLX, on an oldish M2 mbp first try delivered 24 tps(!!) -

24.29 tok/sec • 1953 tokens • 3.25s to first token • Stop reason: EOS Token Found • Accepted 1092/1953 draft tokens (55.9%)

Thank you to LMStudio, MLX and huggingface too. :-) After decades of not finding enough reasons for an MBP, suddenly ASI was it. And it's delivered beyond any expectations I had, already.

Did I mention I seem to have become NN PDP enthusiast, an AI maximalist? ;-) I thought them people over-excitable, if benevolent. Then the thought of trusting Trump-Putin on decisions like thermo-nuclear war ending us all, over ChatGPT and its reasoning offspring, converted me. AI is our only chance at existential salvation--ignore doom risk.
by sebstefan | 2025-04-29 12:07:11+00:00
A trade deficit is not inherently unhealthy

Then even without that, your 6 biggest companies are Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta. Then the seventh is private equity. Then it's back to Alphabet again, and Broadcom.

The trade deficit calculation excludes services, including but not limited to: software

So even with countries where you supposedly have trade deficits you're not even sure that you really do.

TL;DR It won't help you select jack shit
by throw0101b | 2025-04-29 12:08:08+00:00
> Think snapshots at every update, and having a/b boot to get back to a known-working config after an update.

Solaris had this about a decade ago with beadm:

* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54749/gpxnl.html

FreeBSD has had it for several years as well. If Linux lacks it that is a failure of Linux (distros) not ZFS.
by dizhn | 2025-04-29 12:08:38+00:00
I am not sure if everyone was able to read the paywalled article but the general consensus from the comments seem to be the expectation that amazon will list tariffs for all products.

They actually already do this in Amazon stores in other countries for good that are shipped from overseas. They display the cost of customs processing and it's either included or in addition to the base cost. Then they tack on shipping if applicable. This of course is only for products that do not require further customs processing due to the cost of items going over allowed limits, number of units that are considered commercial purchases, whether the product is in a list of products with different requirements etc.

I really do doubt Amazon will do something much different in the US. Can someone with access to the article comment on this?
by armada651 | 2025-04-29 12:08:38+00:00
> The original social contract was we'd all pretend for a few years that intellectual works couldn't be trivially copied so that creators could turn a profit. And then, and this part is the key, and then the works would enter the public domain.

I agree and we should go back to that system, but that was still copyright. If you're calling for abolishment you give artists 0 years to turn a profit.
by AndrewDavis | 2025-04-29 12:09:03+00:00
The difficulty I find with the wayback machine is it's great when you find a dead link, put it in wayback and voila you can go to it.

But if you're searching for now defunct pages it's hard unless you know the url already. eg if I wanted the page to the q6600 for example, how do I even get that?
by watwut | 2025-04-29 12:09:07+00:00
You can, but this is not what someone who just came to it all for the first time and looks for "app I can download and use" will do.

They will download a dect with single words translations rsther then spend a lot of times doing own deck with special features. That is done by people who primarily learn in another way and use anki as memory refresher.

Anki is great memory refreser, but that is not what was asked here.

To your last paragraph, you do set number of cards per day. Even if you have many different sentences on many different cards, they will graduate independently from each other. So, you will still see the exact same sentence a lot rather then getting different sentence each time you see the card.

More important is that practically Duolingo did not caused me to have any particular sentence or translation super strongly burned into my head. Maybe it is variety, maybe something else, but practical result was just not that.
by ringeryless | 2025-04-29 12:09:42+00:00
LLMs are the least deterministic means you could possibly ever have for automation.

What you are truly seeking is high level specifications for automation systems, which is a flawed concept to the degree that the particulars of a system may require knowledgeable decisions made on a lower level.

However, CAD/CAM, and infrastructure as code are true amplifiers of human power.

LLMs destroy the notion of direct coupling or having any layered specifications or actual levels involved at all, you try to prompt a machine trained in trying to ascertain important datapoints for a given model itself, when the correct model is built up with human specifications and intention at every level.

Wrongful roads lead to erratic destinations, when it turns out that you actually have some intentions you wish to implement IRL
by solfox | 2025-04-29 12:10:04+00:00
Extrapolating from my current experience with AI-assisted work: AI just makes work more meaningful. My output has increased 10x, allowing me to focus on ideas and impact rather than repetitive tasks. Now apply that to entire industries and whole divisions of labor: manual data entry, customer support triage, etc. Will people be out of those jobs? Most certainly. But it gives all of us a chance to level up—to focus on more meaningful labor.

As a father, my forward-thinking vision for my kids is that creativity will rule the day. The most successful will be those with the best ideas and most inspiring vision.
by ta1243 | 2025-04-29 12:10:23+00:00
The cause needs to be investigated and appropriate measures put in place. Renewables however can't be the only answer - storage is key too.

Wide scale blackouts aren't exactly unknown, no matter what the generation.

And while you and I may agree, sadly the people who need convincing are those who listen and vote for the parties who say "it doesn't matter what we do here when China builds more coal power plants a week than we've ever had".

When they say "the reason you were without power is solar", and the opposition say "doesn't matter, you can't have gas", they aren't going to vote for the opposition.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-29 12:10:40+00:00
> Postgres won't even let your force an execution plan and ignores hints

Finally, an actual technical argument. I agree that PostgreSQL's absolute insistence on trusting the query optimiser to Do The Right Thing is weird and annoying (despite being sound general strategy). It even seems to contradict its own general spirit of being on the whole extremely customisable -- you can make your own data types, operators, indexing data structures, complete scripting language plugins... but not, ya know, a way to 100% guarantee that this here query will use this here execution plan.
by justlikereddit | 2025-04-29 12:10:49+00:00
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of both how a grid in blackout mode appears to a lonely inverter and what means of coordinating inverters that are available to said inverter.

Imagine you're trying to coordinate a choir of ten million singers that are scattered across a radius of a thousand kilometer, that all sing into their individual Ham radio. And you need it to come out in a perfect unison that sounds good for those who tune into the mixed broadcast.

"A problem of coordination" is perhaps correct, but it neglects the difficulties involved
by terinjokes | 2025-04-29 12:11:10+00:00
In my four years of US high school Spanish in South Florida, I don't recall a single time we read complete stories or newspaper articles. It was entirely grammar and vocabulary in isolation. When there was speaking exercises the teachers did not make an effort to have the native speakers speak with the non-native speakers.

The only thing close to what I'd now call "Compelling Comprehensive Input" that I recall is a single week where we watched a Friends-style miniseries about an English speaker moving to Spain.

You would not be surprised ik spreek geen spaans.
by CPLX | 2025-04-29 12:11:19+00:00
In fairness I think "non-technical" needs to be clarified a little. I can easily envision (and have seen) founders who are not themselves actual software engineers but who have some background in project management or otherwise managing tech teams hiring an offshore team and moving very quickly to a viable product cost efficiently.

In fact I'd bet it's at least a coin-flip that this profile would actually be more effective than a hardcore CS background engineer who hasn't ever managed teams or launched and sold a product.

Of course that's a small caveat, since that's almost never what we're talking about, like in this example. But still, seems worth noting that the outsourcing of the build isn't necessarily the red flag, the red flag is the leader of the project having no experience in building and launching useful software.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-29 12:11:22+00:00
On Objective-C, due to the way the language works, besides ClassFactoryGeneratorFactories, you would need to add all parameter names to the identifier.

Here, enjoy https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa

There is even a style guide on it,

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
by xnorswap | 2025-04-29 12:11:26+00:00
It no longer works for virgin media (UK cable monopoly).

I got myself into a loop where no matter what I did, there was no human in the loop.

Even the "threaten to cancel" trick didn't work, still just chatbots / automated services.

Thankfully more and more of the UK is getting FTTH. Sadly for me I accidentally misunderstood the coverage checker when I last moved house.
by SirensOfTitan | 2025-04-29 12:11:46+00:00
Right, so if the productivity gains were so blindingly obvious and immediate for everyone, mandates wouldn't be needed.

These companies tried to quantify the productivity impact of work from home, so it's utterly bewildering to me that they would push these tool-use mandates without actually quantifying the impact LLM tools have on productivity. If it were just 'getting familiar' with AI tools to help define an AI-driven product mindset, I'd expect these CEOs to have more than a naive perception of the tools and their limitations.

I honestly wonder where these mandates started--part of me feels like this is the nascent stage of a VC panic that their AI investment strategy might not work out.
by Lerc | 2025-04-29 12:11:58+00:00
While I'm interested in the topic of the post and have seen plenty of visualisations of balls rolling around hills, I was a little disappointed that it didn't cover the thing that has bugging me for years.

Momentum, or specifically inertia, in physics, what the hell is it? There's a Feynman tale where he asked his father why the ball rolled to the back of a trolly when he pulled the trolley. The answer he received was the usual description of inertia, but also the rarely given insight that describing something and giving it a name is completely different from knowing why it happens.

It's one of those things that I lie in bed thinking about. The other one is position, I can grasp the notion of spacetime and the idea of movement and speed as changes in position in space relative to position in time. I really don't have a grasp of what position is though. I know the name, I can attach the numbers to it, but that doesn't really cover what the numbers are of though.
by lxgr | 2025-04-29 12:12:08+00:00
That’s an urban legend, and stores are not required to actually do so. (And as far as I know, a thief could sign the receipt in all caps, ASK FOR PHOTO ID, and it would be a valid signature :)

In fact, even verifying the signature is no longer required in at least the US.

Signature verification also only solves cardholder authentication, not card authorization (i.e. figuring out if the card is funded, still valid etc.)
by Hasu | 2025-04-29 12:12:10+00:00
I think you are poor moderator acting in bad faith, if you think I violated all those guidelines.

Is that a personal attack? Is that against the guidelines?

I'm not interested in being a part of a community that finds my previous post objectionable. What I said was true and needed to be said. It wasn't kind, but the OP did not deserve or need kindness, he needs a reality check.

> It should be clear that this kind of conduct is not acceptable

It isn't.
by lesuorac | 2025-04-29 12:12:12+00:00
Give it time.

The amount of Canadians that think they have a first amendment right to free speech is growing. The only way to avoid this is going to be actually doing a good job of lowering income equality and lowering living costs (as % of income).

(Take your pick as what counts as the 1st Canadian amendment but it's not free speech [1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution...
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-04-29 12:12:39+00:00
Im not sure this is a great example... yes the infrastructure of posting and applying to jobs has to go, but the cost of recruitment in this world would actually be much higher... you likely need more people and more resources to recruit a single employee.

In other words, there is a lot more spam in the world. Efficiencies in hiring that implicitly existed until today may no longer exist because anyone and their mother can generate a professional-looking cover letter or personal web page or w/e.
by ericmay | 2025-04-29 12:12:48+00:00
The best way to avoid this kind of behavior is to avoid shopping at stores where you can’t trace the origin of their products.

Stop buying “brands”, and looking for “deals” and acting like a consumer. Do research and find high quality products, pay more for those products, buy less disposable junk. This isn’t just a “China” thing it’s in general.
by gku | 2025-04-29 12:12:49+00:00
TL;DR

> REN said: “Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration’. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”

- Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) is a Portuguese energy sector company
by thrance | 2025-04-29 12:12:51+00:00
You don't have to put the "/s", it's literally what happened. It's not like they're hiding it. Trump wants to get back to the Gilded Age (he's said so many times), were the only form of taxation were tariffs on foreign imports, and the bourgeoisie was able to amass unparalleled power and wealth domestically, at the expense of everyone else.

As far as I'm concerned, this is dumb as shit and straight reverse-robinhood.
by jmisavage | 2025-04-29 12:13:06+00:00
It's a fork of VS Code that still uses the official extensions, despite that violating the license terms. Functionally, it's pretty similar to using VS Code with Copilot, but with the added bonus of choosing from multiple models. I’ve only just started using it at work, so my experience is also pretty limited, but so far the results seem slightly better.
by myself248 | 2025-04-29 12:13:27+00:00
At an extremely abstract level, it is conceptually simple, but most inverters are designed with safeguards to prevent exactly this. They only produce power when the grid is up, and in phase with it.

Because if not sequenced and interlocked, islanding behavior can result in back-powering parts of the grid that are supposed to be disconnected and down for maintenance, or creation of desynchronized islands that then cause more damage when reconnected.

This is absolutely a problem that operators need to solve. Radio synchronization is possible, neighborhood islanding could be beneficial, etc. There are entire village-wide micro-grids in remote places where everyone's inverters do perform these functions, it just hasn't been embraced in monopoly environments yet.

For instance, relays that close isolated parts back onto the main network would need to be phase-aware, to only reconnect if it's safe to do so. You could mandate that all island-mode inverters center themselves around 50.1 or 60.1Hz in the absence of outside influence so there's certain to be phasing opportunities. Distribution networks would need more switches to provide positive isolation during maintenance. And all of these things would need huge amounts of interoperability testing. It's possible, but it has a cost.
by bluGill | 2025-04-29 12:13:28+00:00
Research has figured out that grammar is the wrong thing to focus on in a classroom. There are better ways to teach in a classroom that work. However many schools are not following the latest research so you need to find a good one.

grammar is good in the classroom - but not until every lesson gets you thinking so that is why I do X. If you are not used to the grammar don't learn it. So don't start until you have had around 50 hours in the classroom.
by bilsbie | 2025-04-29 12:13:44+00:00
I’m starting to think most jobs are performative. Hiring is just managers wanting more people in the office to celebrate their birthdays.

And any important jobs won’t be replaced because managers are too lazy and risk averse to try AI.

We may never see job displacement from AI. Did you know bank teller jobs actually increased in the decades following the roll out of ATMs.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-29 12:14:11+00:00
To give an unrelated example, there's currently a huge drama explosion in the vtuber world due to Person X trying to strongarm an artist into not working with Person Y, while X and Y being ostensibly best friends with each other in public.

People do not like being lied to, and they especially do not like someone lying to them while concretely making their life worse.

> compared to the value of honest debate among the most powerful in tech

Yet again this seems to be using "honest" as code for "racism".
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-29 12:14:33+00:00
A weird read on the situation. Canada would have a conservative government today if Trump hadn't pushed tariffs back in February. PP just didn't have a strong "rah rah" response to those and it probably cost the conservatives the election.

Carney is also very shrewd. He quickly adopted the most popular conservative positions as his own (e.g. "axe the tax") to appeal to conservative voters. The culture war, meanwhile, is very much here. Similar to the US, conservatives did surprisingly well with young men[1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/canada-votes-election-c...
by mrweasel | 2025-04-29 12:15:20+00:00
I absolutely hate the fact that you can go read "Protection or Free Trade(1)" by Henry George and learn that this is exactly what will happen. Tariffs are a tax on the poor, it will never benefit them, in any shape or form. It won't bring them jobs, it won't increase their pay, tariffs only serves to line the pockets of the already wealthy manufacturers. For everyone else this is just an increase on the products they consume. Then realise that Henry George published that book in 1886. It is an incredibly relevant piece of work that shows EXACTLY what will/is happening in the US. It's also terrifying that a book that's almost 140 years old describes the problems with current policies so well.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_or_Free_Trade
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-29 12:15:43+00:00
If it actually works like that, it'll be just like all labor-saving innovations, going back to the loom and printing press and the like; people will lose their job, but it'll be local / individual tragedies, the large scale economic impact will likely be positive.

It'd still suck to lose your job / vocation though, and some of those won't be able to find a new job.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-29 12:15:47+00:00
> Beg bounty hunters have damaged the field so much.

Sure, the grifters themselves are guilty too. But hear me out: maybe the corporate geniuses who decided to crowdsource security using non-contractual if-we-feel-like-it bounty payments could have contributed to the grifting culture.

> Hell, I have even been ghosted after reporting the bug which they promptly fixed and did not even write back to say a "thank you".

Just curious, why perform labor without a contract? If it’s just for personal interest, I wouldn’t even bother to report unless the company has something to offer first.