MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giblfiz | 2025-06-22 05:04:47+00:00
Hey, original author here.

> Ah yes the age old story of a rich guy without a clue diving into a new industry and failing.

Yep, very much so. I was well aware that I didn't have a clue, and thought that I could make up for that with professional expert advice, elbow grease, a pretty good combination of tax advantages, and a willingness to learn.

The project was intentionally limited in scale as to be a "learning project" for me and the whole team. I'm also sort of ok with the idea that it failed, though super frustrated with the entire underlying incentive structure changing so much that we can't use anything we learned to try a second time.

Batteries were intentionally excluded because of the additional complexity overhead they added, and because the way the interconnection rules are written it would have put us into a different MW class which would have dramatically increased a number of other bureaucracy issues.

You are ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT that we would have had a net negative value to the Texas grid without batteries. Batteries are valuable, and increasingly so, but so is raw power (even at mid sun). This is reflected nicely in the hourly price charts, which at this point I'm super familiar with.
by K0balt | 2025-06-22 05:04:48+00:00
Ukraine, and now Iran, have made one thing abundantly clear to the world: if you want to have any actual sovereignty on the world stage, you must have nuclear weapons. Otherwise you are merely waiting for another nation to find an excuse to violate your borders.

Every country in the world with well organized military is right now working on plans to acquire a nuclear arsenal either by proxy or by way of a domestic nuclear program. That is the legacy of this strike. It puts the point at the end of the exclamation that was Ukraine.

The seeds of a new era of proliferation have been sown, and our children will reap the rewards.

There are now ways to purify uranium much more cost effectively and in better secrecy that centrifuges. Small labs can do it effectively now, and a massively distributed effort would not only make it possible to achieve without needing to buy restricted equipment, it also would make it nearly impossible to disrupt militarily.

You could just open source a design and let the market do the work. It’s of course a terrible idea, which would lead to explosive proliferation and lots of cancer, but it would work. The technical part is challenging but not outside of the reach of serious hobby level efforts.

I will be surprised if we don’t start to see something along these lines cropping up all over the place soon. It’s a natural progression of several technologies that have become vastly more economical and accessible as time goes on.
by aurizon | 2025-06-22 05:05:21+00:00
Ideal scam candidate, just get an accountant to audit it and sell it. I recall the Canadian SRTC frauds of the 90's, get an audit and sell it to an oil company paying 55% taxes, the usual rate was 28% of face, and the tax men were stopped by the audit and could not reverse the deduction so they had to chase the SRTC origonator - he also had an accountant. Billions were save/made - it was the wild west of SRTC fraud. SRTC = Scientific Research Tax Credits = they could be sold to heavily taxed oil companies by research companies that made no profits in Canada
by boston_clone | 2025-06-22 05:06:19+00:00
What I mean by proxy state is that Israel is effectively treated as an extension of the US. No other country enjoys such unconstitutionally explicit protection with laws on the books for the majority of states [0]. A Florida congressperson wore their IDF uniform to the US capitol, acting in their official capacity [1].

Virtually unconditional support is provided on the global stage, and clearly, we are comfortable with starting another regional war. But saying we're "stuck with what Israel decides to do" sounds a bit fatalistic, no?

0. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/31/texas-boycott-israel... 1. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4254384-brian-mast-israel...
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-22 05:07:01+00:00
Whether or not you have free will is not relevant, as I had described in other comments.

> In a world without free will crimes of passion are simply the result of the situation which means that person would always chose murder in that situation. People who would respond with murder in an unacceptably wide range of situations is an edge case worth consideration without free will.

This is a significant argument. However, there is also worth considering if that is actually accurate, and if such a situation will occur (in a case where whoever would be killed would not effectively protect themself from this).

> That’s assuming absolute certainty about what happened. Punishments may make sense as a logical argument even if it’s only useful in a subset of cases if you can’t be absolutely sure which case something happened to be.

It is true that you do not have absolute certainty, but neither should you arrest someone who is not guilty.

> Uncertainty does a lot to align emotional heuristics and logical actions.

In some cases, yes, but it is not always valid. But, even if it is, this does not mean that you should not consider it logically if you are able to do so.
by throwawaythekey | 2025-06-22 05:07:03+00:00
> "To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” President Trump

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-pr...
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-22 05:08:38+00:00
Perhaps you should try installing kxstudio, it is a collection of packages and all the configuration stuff for tuning Ubuntu or Debian for audio work. I have never used it but many seem to swear by it and I believe it takes care of setting up and configuring any of the common synthesis DSLs like SC, pd and Csound. Perhaps someone else can fill in the massive gaps I left.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-22 05:08:48+00:00
I don't understand your question. All gods are worshiped by definition.

"The cult of Odin" would refer to anything and everything related to Odin. See sense 1 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cult , or sense 3/4 here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult .
by Tika2234 | 2025-06-22 05:09:48+00:00
Why there is regime change there? You are watching fake news projected by your own government for your bubble. The regime now is way stronger. Their economy now is also significantly bigger and stronger (hint: China). A fresh grad there can find job in less than 2 weeks. Try that in UK or NY...even 6mths would be atough endevour.
by soganess | 2025-06-22 05:10:34+00:00
60%? Serious citation needed. The largest Christian population in Iran are Armenians. There are far fewer than 1 million Armenians in Iran. So unless you have evidence for the claim that there are 50+ million atheists in Iran, the number just defies belief.

I would be shocked if there were 50 million atheists in America. Maybe if you included people who are spiritual but do not believe directly in a god. Maybe I could accept it then, but at that point, you are stretching the definition of 'atheist' to its breaking point.
by kragen | 2025-06-22 05:10:47+00:00
Dijkstra writes about subroutine calling:

> We should recognise the closed subroutines as one of the greatest software inventions; it has survived three generations of computers and it will survive a few more, because it caters for the implementation of one of our basic patterns of abstraction. Regrettably enough, its importance has been underestimated in the design of the third generation computers, in which the great number of explicitly named registers of the arithmetic unit implies a large overhead on the subroutine mechanism.

Presumably what he's saying is that if you have 16 architectural registers instead of four, entering a subroutine involves saving 16 registers, which takes four times as long as saving four registers, which discourages factoring your program into small subroutines. Is there a more reasonable interpretation?

Because I think this interpretation is wrong. If your leaf subroutine requires six registers for its work, and you only have four caller-saved registers, you need to save the values of two callee-saved registers on entry and restore them on exit. And that's true whether your architecture has eight registers, or 16, or 32. Similarly, if a value needs to survive across a subroutine call, you need to use a callee-saved register for it, or store it in memory.

So the cost of invoking a subroutine doesn't depend on the number of architectural registers, I think.

The exception is that, if you don't have enough registers, you need to store variables in memory, and variables in memory don't need to be saved and restored. You could even posit cases where moving variables from registers into memory makes your program faster because you don't have to spend time saving and restoring a register. (Probably not on a single-issue RISC, because you need extra loads and stores, but you could imagine machines whose memory access is fast enough for this.)

But, if that's the case for a particular variable, nothing stops you from using memory for it, perhaps occasionally holding its value in a caller-saved register temporarily. This saves you the cost of saving and restoring the register you could have used for it. It's as if the register doesn't exist.

So I'm skeptical of the thesis that large architectural register files make subroutine calls slower. At most, they fail to speed up subroutine calling by as much as they speed up other parts of your code.

On the other hand, I don't think I know anything relevant that Dijkstra didn't know in 01972. So, am I missing something?

(All this is assuming a constant number of instructions per second, although in fact stack architectures like the MuP21 might be able to hit a higher clock speed than more conventional designs.)

Large register files do slow down preemptive context switching (multithreading), because the operating system must save even registers that the problem-state code is not using, even caller-saved registers. And large sets of callee-saved registers also slow down cooperative context switching.
by ImJamal | 2025-06-22 05:11:26+00:00
I guess you are more of an optimist than me. If I thought we could get peace sooner just by not recognizing their capital, I would be all for it.

I don't think a two state solution is possible, at least in the near to medium future. Changing the capital won't extend the war since, in my view, it will be a hundred years until there is any chance at peace, and even that is probably too short. Nobody killing each other then will care that the capital was changed.
by phire | 2025-06-22 05:11:40+00:00
The free functionality works well enough for me that I never saw the need to look further (until now).

You can only enable one filter list, but "Ads" is a single filter list, so I just enabled that. Just means I can't enable the "Trackers" (though safari has some built in tracker blocking) or "Annoyances" lists, or add Custom rules.

Though, it's going to be a deal-breaker for anyone outside of the English speaking world, because the regional filters count as a second list.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-22 05:12:17+00:00
Russia isn't attacking, it's reclaiming it's rightful territory.

According to Putin...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/putin-says-whole-of-u...

/s in case it's not obvious.

Putin is a sociopath, which equips him with all the necessary tools to charm the easily flattered.
by throwawaythekey | 2025-06-22 05:12:26+00:00
- Trump murdered top a top Iranian general (Soleimani)

- Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy

- Iran counterstruck Israel but relatively restrained and with warning

- Israel bombed several high ranking Iranians, especially those involved with the nuclear program

- Iran counterstruck Israel.

None of it had that much to do with America.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-22 05:12:32+00:00
> Investments like land aren’t necessarily consumed. You can reasonably deduct when an actual expense happens, but buying steel etc to be used next year doesn’t guarantee it is actually used rather than sold.

In many cases you're buying something intending it to be consumed, even if it hasn't been yet, and have to buy it ahead of time because you have to get it installed or connected or forged etc. before it can start being used.

If you then sell the steel instead of using it, the sale price gets added to your income and the cost was already deducted previously, so that cancels the previous deduction and you're back to paying the tax on it.

> Money is fungible, you hand me money to buy land and I can redirect money I would have spent to buy something else.

In order to get a tax deduction for buying land to build a solar farm, you have to buy land to build a solar farm. You can't spend that money on something else and still get that tax deduction. You can spend other money on something else, but the amount of money you have available to spend on other things has gone down, and the point is to increase your incentive to build the solar farm, which it is effective in doing.
by parpfish | 2025-06-22 05:14:03+00:00
Especially for startups with a small user base.

Not many users means that getting to stat sig will take longer (if at all).

Sometimes you just need to trust your design/product sense and assert that some change you’re making is better and push it without an experiment. Too often people use experimentation for CYA reasons so they can never be blamed for making a misstep
by Tika2234 | 2025-06-22 05:14:21+00:00
It is ending a bit like Ming dynasty and Rome towards the end. Corruptions rife everywhere. Leaders try to be competent and yet ended making more mess. You can already see China is doing 5nm. Best camera phone is Huawei. Best EV in both variants models and quality and total volume sales, BYD. Tesla get decimated. Even AI China is on par. In terms of talents, you can see how well Americans read and count. In 30 years time, you need to learn Chinese and maybe Russian. I dont see America will be much viable pass the next 30 years. If you get a Dem prez, the country will be saturated with illegals. If you get JD, debrs will spiral out of control while opening a warfront in the middle east with Iran and China. This is basically empire ending scenario.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-06-22 05:14:24+00:00
This is interesting. I will email you momentarily.

First, I’m definitely not good enough to be teaching regular classes. I never learned anything computer related formally but via "view source", online resources, and anything informal.

Second, I have been helping connect, especially school/college kids with the right people and the right courses for them to learn how to be fluent in computers. I already have connects to a few big communities where I can introduce this. If this goes well, I will also help spread the word, get donations, etc.

I love the global approach. Best of luck and good wishes.
by serf | 2025-06-22 05:14:50+00:00
it wasn't the 'Bush crowd'; it was everyone but a few dissenting critical journalists.[0][1]

war and conflict are almost always bipartisan to some degree.

[0]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_9... [1]: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iraq/journalism-press-failed-...
by d0mine | 2025-06-22 05:16:37+00:00
Precision is not boolean (present or absent/0 or 1). There may be many numbers between 0 and 1. Compared to human languages, programming languages are much more precise that makes the results much more predictable in practice.

I can imagine OS being written in C++ and working most of the time. I don't think you can replace Linux written in C with any number of LLM prompts.

LLM can be a [bad so far] programmer but a prompt is not a program.
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-22 05:16:57+00:00
I agree; they seem logical to me too, whether or not you have free will.

However, it would seem that not everyone believes that, though.

(It is not quite as simple as it might seem, because the situation is not necessarily always that clear, but other than that, I would agree that it is logical and reasonable, that punishment is only justified from the point of view of reducing offending and reoffending rates and only if it actually achieves those goals.)
by tehjoker | 2025-06-22 05:18:07+00:00
they might be right, but that's why the attack failed and why there's a risk what I said might still come true

i was listening to Al Jazeera, one of the DC flaks they interviewed gave an upper estimate of the facility depth as 1000 ft. The conventional device can go to something like 60m or 200 ft. 6 devices were dropped, they would have to have everything, including geology with repeated strikes on the same point, be perfect to get past 1000 feet, and then they probably would not destroy the whole facility. As far as I know, they don't even have a good map of the layout.

hence, the only real option is a nuclear weapon. this is absolutely being considered inside the pentagon. our government is psychotic. a 1 kt nuclear weapon (laughably small, hiroshima was 15 kt) is 73x more powerful than a 30,000 lb bomb. they would be like, well, it's an underground explosion! The world will forgive us. it's so crafty and smart to use a nuke to stop a nuke (that doesn't exist).

https://x.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1935741526191100181

"The effectiveness of GBU-57s has been a topic of deep contention at the Pentagon since the start of Trump’s term, according to two defense officials who were briefed that perhaps only a tactical nuclear weapon could be capable of destroying Fordow because of how deeply it is located."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/trump-caution-...
by Tika2234 | 2025-06-22 05:18:14+00:00
America allies, Saudi head chop more than Iran. And there are 100K Jews in Iran and they get into parliament too. Show me that in Israel. You got confused with Saudi and Pakistan. Dont think 60% there Christian or atheist there. Westrrn media is always BS. They got so many wrongs since 2 deacdes ago, I read way less western stuff these days. Otherwise my whole world view looks like Marvel MCU and Tom Cruise with Arnie running around with guns.
by Reasoning | 2025-06-22 05:19:42+00:00
From contemporary ethnologists who used the term to refer to the proto-indo-europeans? Because the term aryan is common amongst the languages descended from the proto-indo-european language (Arya, Iran, Alans, Arios)?

Nazi philosophy grew out of 19th century ethnology which was heavily influenced by Darwinism. They believed the proto-indo-european ("Aryan") homeland was in northern Europe and that the spread of "Aryan" language was do to "Aryan" immigration to those regions and that in ancient times those regions were led by an "Aryan" "master race" who ruled over the "lesser races" do to their natural superior genes developed through generations of natural selection in the harsh northern climate.

To be clear, I believe that is all BS but I wrote all that to clarify that the Nazis didn't steal the term Aryan from the Hindu, it's a term used by the Indo-Iranians to self-designate which was erroneously misattributed to the proto-indo-europeans by early European ethnologists.
by ReptileMan | 2025-06-22 05:19:55+00:00
Iran has smaller gdp than israel and 12 times it's population. They are a delusional dwarf, and they beat and blind women that refuse to wear headscarf. So I wouldn't mind some dead and crippled clergy and IRGC as long as there are no boots on the ground. Just kill the elites until the population sorts the thing themselves.
by Retric | 2025-06-22 05:21:14+00:00
> If you then sell the steel instead of using it, the sale price gets added to your income and the cost was already deducted previously, so that cancels the previous deduction and you're back to paying the tax on it.

An interest free loan means you’re ahead in that transaction but society is worse off when people do useless things to avoid taxes.

> You can spend other money on something else, but the amount of money you have available to spend on other things has gone down

One can’t invest all their money in any given year or one lacks the ability to buy food. You also can’t spend all your money in a given year or you go broke.

Thus both saving and spending are always happening and the government reducing the amount of money you’re required to save means you can up spending. There’s zero meaningfully differences between piles of money here.
by nebula8804 | 2025-06-22 05:21:26+00:00
>16mm/35mm is already fading, with a finite population of prints that dwindles every year as film deteriorates or reels are lost/destroyed.

They are still publishing films in 35mm and at least in popular US cities the format has a following. For example in 2021, Last Night In Soho was printed in 35mm. To be fair the 35mm print was only exhibited in some select locations and only for special screenings. But then we also have 70mm IMAX that despite only has X number of screens left, still manages to attracts sold out screenings for weeks whenever a film (Like Oppenheimer) appears. I also spoke to the people running the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, NJ (They screen 16mm, 35mm and 70mm and they promote Fort Lee as the birthplace of the American Motion Picture Industry). They told me that you can order up thousands of different 35mm films from studio's storage centers (I think there are only two left in the country) and the main issue is delivery costs make it usually not worth it to screen most films.

I am closer to middle age but I have met a lot of youngins who are die hard film people.
by nirav72 | 2025-06-22 05:21:32+00:00
The Houthi threat was in and around the red sea. Iran’s naval reach is limited to with whatever it is they call a “Navy” in the Gulf of Oman. Almost on other side of the Arabian peninsula. Also the Houthis got pummeled once the U.S showed up. The U.S didn’t even continue a sustained campaign to wipe them out. Something it is more than capable of doing with just a single carrier group. That’s not even counting the Saudis getting involved.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-06-22 05:21:55+00:00
No, it is not illegal for a US president to authorize strikes like this. American hasn't formally declared war since WWII.

Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades - and no one, especially no one in the middle east - wants a nuclear armed Iran. America and its partners - and quite often its not-partners - have been working to stop Iranian uranium enrichment for a very long time.

As for "guarantees they will pursue nuclear weapons by all means" -- that's the point: they've already been doing so nonstop for decades.

In much of the middle east, Iran is detested, and a nuclear armed Iran is deeply feared throughout the region. Iran with nukes means the rest of the middle east will feel compelled to pursue nuclear weapons as well. Again, in vast swaths of the middle east, Iran is considered an enemy.
by benrutter | 2025-06-22 05:22:08+00:00
> Isn't that grounds for arrest?

Maybe, but worth saying the ICC have issued a warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes. The reason he hasn't been arrested is:

- The ICC is just a court, not a police department. Only countries have those, and while Netanyahu is in Israel, his own police probably won't arrest him.

- Authoritarian governments like Trump, Orban, Putin are actively undermining the ICC, which makes enforcement even less likely.