MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by layoric | 2025-06-27 00:56:00+00:00
> A healthy regulated will encourage maximizing profit for power and bring in competition which drives the cost down until energy is a commodity and the cost of electricity is actually based on the price of production and a small profit based on the cost of capital.

That is not how the electricity market works, in Australia anyway, and somewhat fundamentally everywhere. The network needs to maintain a frequency and voltage for it to be reliable. These change as load and production change. So consumers don't get a choice of which electrons power their house, only who they pay. They pay a 'retailer' who usually has nothing to do with production for a known cost per kwh + fees ahead of time. The market then operates where agreements between parties including retailers and produces (traders and others as well) has a 'market rate' that essentially arbitrage between longer term fixed rates and market rates.

The fact that the stability is tied to frequency and voltage (and infrastructure) means there is a limit to the rate of production and consumption, not to mention electricity is a necessity in the modern age.

In Australia at least we are finding out the hard way about what happens when you privatize a necessity. People will pay whatever it costs, and since the market needs a high level of regulation just to function, a market IMO is just a bad fit for trying to bring costs down rather than just rent seeking.

> The fact that you can add to the grid by installing solar and battery and connect to the grid in a single afternoon

That has become harder in recent time due to areas being over saturated by solar. Cities in Australia can deny you connecting to the grid if there is too much, as well as we have high network voltage detection on inverters which now kick in on many sunny days due to again, too much solar. Electricity network operators pay a large amount of money to services to predict/model how much of the power in their network is coming from solar and where because they commonly don't know, so it becomes a difficult balance of how much solar you are allowed to connect.

> but with the right equipment you can have community sized islands that can be much more immune to instability.

Agreed, but due to the required _shared_ infrastructure for this to work will need public land to connect these islands or even within an 'island', as well as the now private vested interests in rent seeking, this will be a fringe solution only available to those with larger amounts of land like communes or other rural setups. Again, speaking to Australia.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-27 00:56:03+00:00
A person who buys a Tesla has no idea how any of it works, but if someone breaks into that car and drives it (non-autonomously) into pedestrians how would I be held liable for that? I wouldn't be and shouldn't be. The person who broke into the car and drove it would be, the difference here is that the perpetrator is harder to catch so people look to blame something else.

At the end of the day it is very difficult to impose security management across consumers. You cannot expect the average consumer to pen test their home network and have active vulnerability scanning software to mitigate potential vulnerabilities that result in Botnets.

It is difficult to hold people liable when someone else misappropriates their assets in a way that was not its original intended purpose. When its difficult to capture the perpetrator people start to blame everything else, that doesn't mean we should just shift liability to the buyer who is just simply an easier target to place the blame on than a random unidentified person in another country.

That may sound like a solution but its not the right one. Now someone has the ability to misappropriate your assets from the other side of the world and you become charged with the crime, when all you did was buy a new Samsung TV. Heck knowing that, maybe someone would target you knowing full well you'd be in trouble for it.
by throwaway98334 | 2025-06-27 00:56:19+00:00
Well, it looks like my overly cynical response wasn't warranted. Best of luck in your future endeavours and I hope you manage to get the money you need without locking too many features behind enterprise Matrix.

EDIT: I do still find issue with the claim that Element X is the solution to every UX problem though. Sure, you've begun experimenting with a web version of it, but it's still in the very early stages - it's not exactly production-ready.
by sotix | 2025-06-27 00:56:58+00:00
Language Transfer[0] will continue to be a better resource than any AI course. It’s very hard to beat a human that has put in time crafting a logical way to teach a language with the appropriate ramp ups. The Greek course on there is fantastic. And it’s free with zero ads. Best language learning tool I’ve ever used period.

[0]: https://www.languagetransfer.org/
by nailer | 2025-06-27 00:58:39+00:00
> The disingenuous deception will never cease with you, I see.

As opposed to the classic sincere deception.

> Your logic: "I found one violent reference, therefore Islam is violent." By this reasoning: humanity commits violence, therefore you, nailer, are violent; because you're human

No - as discussed earlier, not every follower of Islam is individually violent, like not every human is violent.

> You're still avoiding the actual questions: Why did Umar invite Jews back to Jerusalem? Why did he not slaughter them?

I answered this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381029

> Why haven't 1.8 billion Muslims enacted this "unrestricted violence" you claim is a part of the religion?

I answered that earlier too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373946

I previously asked you what your own thoughts are regarding why Islam is violent, you didn’t answer. Your most recent post seems to indicate that you don’t think Islam is violent at all. What is your own explanation for the widespread worldwide occurrence of Islamic violence, if Islam itself is not violent?
Show HN: DevOps made easier for startups
by fedepochat | 2025-06-27 01:00:10+00:00
Hey HN!

I’ve been working on Obelis AI — it’s like having a DevOps engineer on your team, powered by AI agents (real ones, not just a fancy LLM wrapper).

The idea came from seeing how early-stage teams often push off infra decisions until it’s too late. Migrations are always an option, but they get painful fast as things scale.

Platforms like Vercel and Firebase are great to get going, but they tend to get expensive, and you don’t really own the infra. We try to give you the same simplicity — but everything runs on your own cloud (AWS for the timebeing), with full control.

We're in beta now — would love feedback, questions, or any brutally honest thoughts. Appreciate it!
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-06-27 01:02:24+00:00
If I'm reading this correctly, the idea is

1. YOLO. Yeet big data into orbit!

2. People will pay big bucks to keep their data all the way up there!

3. Profit!

It could make sense if the entire DC was designed as a completely modular system. Think ISS without the humans. Every module needs to have a guaranteed lifetime, and then needs to be safely yet destructively deorbited after its replacement (shiny new module) docks and mirrors the data.
by monocularvision | 2025-06-27 01:03:13+00:00
There is absolutely some truth to this.

But we’re talking about extremely basic things. Simple pages that display data, like a bank website showing my transactions. And you know what? The simplest of sites seem to work awful on the web… because the web developers make bad sites. I have seen examples of sites that are smooth, functional, and beautiful. But most sites are not. They are bloated messes where the user experience seems to be 15th on the list of concerns.

To answer to the question: “why does the web suck on mobile” is almost entirely “because web developers make awful websites”.
by joekrill | 2025-06-27 01:05:34+00:00
An actual list would be long, nuanced and vary by platform, but I'll offer a sampling.

For many things there's might be a basic API available, but when you dig a little deeper you find huge limitations. Geolocation is a great example of that. Sure, it's available. But you couldn't implement a navigation app, for example. Because you can't watch the location and get updates in the background. Not to mention that accuracy and update frequency can be severely reduced in a PWA vs a native app.

Other limited APIs include things like bluetooth, audio, NFC, notifications, file system access, sensors (proximity, light, etc), camera functionality.

Safari (and therefore Apple) doesn't support things like accelerometer/gyroscope access, battery status, vibration, network info.

You can't access things like the user's contacts or calendar. And we could argue over whether limiting access to stuff like this is a good or bad thing. But the fact is that this stuff is available in various ways to native apps, but not at all to web apps.
by troad | 2025-06-27 01:05:42+00:00
I stopped reading when we got to sarcastic hate-compiling. That whole part could be a thoughtful and compassionate discussion of the state of Mac emulators, and would be much more persuasive if it were, and instead it reads like a blog-length dunk tweet.

> I feel like that’s a bit harsh, but I’ll admit that it is needlessly inflammatory.

You're asking for a courtesy here that you failed to extend to others.

When you write a hit piece on someone's hobby volunteer code, and then you get called out for being unduly mean, I don't think you get to complain people are being harsh to you. You chose to devote hours of your time to dismantling something someone put years of effort in, entirely as a fun hobby. (Antique Mac emulation is certainly not the highway to riches.) You say 'inflammatory', like the issue here is that you're slightly heated and passionate. No, the issue here is that the piece boils down to bullying other people because their fun hobby projects don't meet your esoteric standards ('no Github releases!').

> I wasn’t in the best state mentally when I wrote that. (I do sometimes worry that I’m responsible for the disappearance of Paul C. Pratt…)

Nothing about your mental state gives you licence to bully others. Their emotional states are no less important than yours.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-27 01:06:51+00:00
Public opinion polling after the strikes, especially for independents, hasn't been favorable. 60/35 independent against? https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3925

The administration forgot the political tenet that you lead the public into supporting military action before taking the action, not after.

But I guess that level of ignorance is what you get from B-tier politicians who would sign on to this admin.
by drslip | 2025-06-27 01:09:15+00:00
> I wonder if this product is able to escape that pattern

One way they’ve partially escaped it is that many can’t even sign up, since it’s offered in so few countries and cities.

A better solution might be to allow the user to enter the location of wherever they are, at whatever level on geographic specificity they want to provide. There are many in remote areas that are excluded from this sort of thing.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-06-27 01:10:14+00:00
> You're saying Dell can't make computers in the US ever again?

The person you are replying to said no such thing.

Yes, of course, in isolation, some manufacturers can build new factories. Not overnight. Not in a year, if the supply chain is remotely complicated.

Okay, lets say Dell, who moved their manufacturing out of the US nearly two decades ago, succeeds with their factory building and starts building here. Great! What are they building? Are they fabbing 100% of the components that are going into these computers they are building? Absolutely not.
Show HN: News-Hook lets you prompt alerts to stay informed on anything
by lendacerda | 2025-06-27 01:13:21+00:00
News-Hook is a tool for setting up webhooks on any real-world, using just prompts.

You can write prompts like:

“Inform me when [movie] gets a Rotten Tomatoes score” “Tell me when [rumor] is confirmed or denied” “Alert me on any tariffs news between USA and Brazil”

Here’s how it works:

-You write a prompt saying what you want to be informed about. -You set up a webhook as always, with URL and payload. -Done.

There is a full API in case you wanna do this programatically We got Swagger-UI open in case you wanna see

Would love feedback, use cases I haven’t thought of, and critiques on design or security.

Thanks!
by trhway | 2025-06-27 01:18:14+00:00
>then the supply chains can be (re-)built

similar like with networks the value of supply chain grows with its size, ie. more competing suppliers decrease the prices and increase the productivity and efficiency. It also lowers the risks of failing suppliers, and the supply risk is also an additional cost.

So, you suggest to rebuild supply chain hosted by the "technologically civilized" half+ of the world, i.e. by 4B+ of people, in a country of 340M. I.e. a supply chain at least 10x smaller, with at least 10x less competition (or the alternative - same number of suppliers 10x smaller in size). We all know what happens when there is 10x less competition. (and the alternative is even worse - the suppliers being 10x smaller in size is a loss of manufacturing efficiency which comes and goes with the scale of mass production and probably isn't possible at all as small suppliers usually quickly fail and/or scooped by larger ones, especially given that their addressable market is also 10x smaller)
by edude03 | 2025-06-27 01:18:33+00:00
First time someone I know in real life has made it to the HN front page (hey sharnoff, congrats) anyway -

I think this post (accidentally?) conflates two different sources of slowness:

1) Building in docker 2) The compiler being "slow"

They mention they could use bind mounts, yet wanting a clean build environment - personally, I think that may be misguided. Rust with incremental builds is actually pretty fast and the time you lose fighting dockers caching would likely be made up in build times - since you'd generally build and deploy way more often than you'd fight the cache (which, you'd delete the cache and build from scratch in that case anyway)

So - for developers who build rust containers, I highly recommend either using cache mounts or building outside the container and adding just the binary to the image.

2) The compiler being slow - having experienced ocaml, go and scala for comparisons the rust compiler is slower than go and ocaml, sure, but for non interactive (ie, REPL like) workflows, this tends not to matter in my experience - realistically, using incremental builds in dev mode takes seconds, then once the code is working, you push to CI at which point you can often accept the (worst case?) scenario that it takes 20 minutes to build your container since you're free to go do other things.

So while I appreciate the deep research and great explanations, I don't think the rust compiler is actually slow, just slower than what people might be use to coming from typescript or go for example.
by throwup238 | 2025-06-27 01:20:36+00:00
I don’t know how random their selection was but another 2020 study on cat slow blinking that popped up on HN [1], they recruited cat “owners”. Given how militant cat “owners” can be, it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a few hundred/thousand candidates from which to do patient selection. Just sending a DM to the cats or eyebleach subreddit mods would probably get an enterprising researcher a pinned post too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132265
by zamadatix | 2025-06-27 01:20:45+00:00
You're probably right that it's the UX of the OG Element that was the original problem people got hung up on but Element X isn't actually a relevant answer until it's usable, regardless of how much better it sounds like it will be on paper. A secondary problem people got hung up on was the endless parade of "you're just using the wrong client, try ${this}" and then finding it was missing half the things that they were told Matrix can do.

I'm still optimistic about Matrix but I am a bit worried that it has lost a lot of steam because of this UX history.
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-27 01:21:53+00:00
> I don't understand your thought process.

You claim to be a lawyer, I doubt your reading comprehension is really this bad but just in case I'll spell it out for you. You asked:

> More importantly, is there a public body that owns the spec?

And I answered:

> For C# there is the ECMA specification for it https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

Anyone can implement a compiler or interpreter for C# if they want, and there is a link to the standard for it. Is this clear enough for you?

Also, from an earlier comment you made a false claim and a strange reference.

You claimed that "most of" Java, Rust, C#, Python, and Go have only a single implementation. This is false. There are multiple implementations of each.

Second, you make a bizarre reference to "fad[ing] away like Pascal." Why do you think Pascal faded? I'll give a hint: It had nothing to do with being proprietary. At best that reference is a non sequitur, at worst it demonstrates more confusion on your part.
by Hizonner | 2025-06-27 01:22:39+00:00
License for what? They don't have a copyright except maybe in the easily reimplemented Python code.

Model weights are not copyrightable creative works, no matter how much various companies wish they were.

At least they're not copyrightable until either legislatures extend the list of what's copyrightable, or courts have definitively show their willingness to reinterpret the words in the existing definitions far outside of their established legal meanings, their established meanings in common speech, and/or any sane analogy to those established meanings.

Yes, I am aware that collections and databases are copyrightable. Models don't have the elements required for a copyrightable collection or database. I'm also aware that software is copyrightable. Models don't have the elements required for copyrightable software. They just flat out aren't works of authorship in any way. How much effort goes into creating them is irrelevant; that's not part of what defines a copyrightable work.
by klank | 2025-06-27 01:23:39+00:00
What are your qualms with time per element? I liked it as a metric because it kept the total deviation of results to less than 32 across the entire result set.

Using something like the overall run length would have such large variations making only the shape of the graph particularly useful (to me) less so much the values themselves.

If I was showing a chart like this to "leadership" I'd show with the overall run length. As I'd care more about them realizing the "real world" impact rather than the per unit impact. But this is written for engineers, so I'd expect it to also be focused on per unit impacts for a blog like this.

However, having said all that, I'd love to hear what your reservations are using it as a metric.
by yencabulator | 2025-06-27 01:23:58+00:00
From that wikipedia page:

> In adults, single doses above 10 grams or 200 mg/kg of bodyweight, whichever is lower, have a reasonable likelihood of causing toxicity.

10g is 20 pills of the highest strength you'll find in a regular store. Excedrin brand "Extra Strength" is half of that, you'd have to be eating 40+ pills in 24 hours, or 20+ pills per day on multiple consecutive days. Most acetaminophen pills have 100-200 mg of the active ingredient.

You're missing the context:

> Intentional overdosing (self-poisoning, with suicidal intent) is frequently implicated in paracetamol toxicity.[25] In a 2006 review, paracetamol was the most frequently ingested compound in intentional overdosing.[26]

So, it's not that acetaminophen will kill that easily. It's just that of the easily available ways to kill yourself, it's distinctly the one that destroys the liver quick.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-27 01:25:19+00:00
Third places still exist, and if you go find them, you'll notice something: Most of the best ones aren't places of commerce. Not coffee shops, but clubs, churches, nonprofits, public parks, universities, apartment courtyards, volunteer fire departments, etc. I think that our modern society, based around cutthroat capitalist optimization where any "third space" is a lost opportunity to extract money from "consumers", is so far from the possibility of true "third spaces" that we can't even reason about them properly, no, not even the people who ostensibly study them academically.
by threatofrain | 2025-06-27 01:25:37+00:00
Google has pushed web harder than any other company. They popularized the very concept of a web app, back when the public didn't have that notion. They pushed the concept of progressive web apps. They tried to push web components. They tried to throw Dart into the browser. Under their guidance JS has advanced very quickly as a language.

PWA's can do background sync, there's push notifications, badge icons, the kinds of things that allow websites to feel more like apps — on Android and not iOS.
Ask HN: iOS devs, how long does Apple take to approve your apps?
by kurrupttt | 2025-06-27 01:30:46+00:00
Feel like i've been waiting for days and they keep rejecting for silly things. The first time they randomly rejected and said "Your app does not need login services. Let users freely roam and use the features of the app"

???

anyways I explained to them why there's a gamification aspect in the app and users level up after a task they do. Then they agreed that its fine to have a login option, but sent a new error.

now I'm on submission 8. fingers crossed this is the one.
by acdha | 2025-06-27 01:33:27+00:00
How quickly did they move to China? Decades, right? Coming back takes that kind of timescale because everything needs to align – making PCs means that they need suppliers for every component, and those factories inputs, and logistics keeping factories’ production synchronized, and a lot of different skilled labor categories which aren’t trivially available. If you’re setting up a factory in the Midwest assembling parts from China, all you’re doing is ensuring that the results cost more and none of the key businesses are likely to come back because tariffs won’t make a factory competitive outside of the country.

You can encourage the whole thing to move but it needs to be a carefully considered long-term plan with strategic investments and ongoing investment. That’s the opposite of what we’re seeing now with tariffs changing every time an octogenarian gets cranky, and his party is trying to slash investments rather than grow them. No business is going to assume that any promise made will last for a business quarter, much less the years needed, and without some major funding commitments nobody is going to jump to line up tens of billions in financing.
by MobileVet | 2025-06-27 01:36:50+00:00
I hear you. You are 100% correct, it is NOT easy... for a LOT of reasons. I hope you didn't feel like I was making light of it or implying that it was easy. it is not. Full stop.

Congrats on making it so far against such odds. That is a massive accomplishment. Day by day... use your amazing progress to help you motivate continued growth.

Hope is critical and I am glad I was able to provide a tiny bit for you. We are all different, so what has worked for some / many may not work for you. Frankly that was the hardest part of our journey, the 'unending' iterations. Hoping each would provide relief... waiting for weeks and months, only to move on to another cocktail.

On the flip side, there are a LOT of different treatments now and some very promising 'new' ones that are helping a lot of people.

It sounds like you have come a long way without much help or relief. I am glad it was helpful to know that relief is possible and that may help carry you forward just a little further.