MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-06-23 16:52:32+00:00
> years

In Phoenix, I've never seen a water filter last because our hard water eats them all up faster than in other places in the US. There must be an ideal combination of filtration systems that others use here and elsewhere that I'm not aware of that last for as long as they do, but standard consumer ones that bring TDS down to zero have very little lifespan here.

I can't imagine what difficulties exist in areas with access to clean water, but I can't expect them to all also be easily filtered outside of processes like solar distillation or something else.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-23 16:52:33+00:00
> The latest nuclear plant in the US was the completion of the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which ran a staggering $22B over budget. Twenty Two Billion Dollars over budget!

And Unit 4 was (IIRC) 30% cheaper than Unit 3. Because with Unit 3 they had to learn everything about building a nuclear power plant from scratch (from a practical, steel-toed boots on the ground perspective).

Now that there's (a) an actual supply chain (brought up from scratch), and (b) people with a workflow on how to build AP1000s, future units will decrease costs over time. During the 1990s and into the 2000s Japan was bringing up nuclear plants in 4-5 years like clockwork:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

Turns economies of scale work as well for 900MW power plants as for $9 widgets.

The Decouple podcast has a four-part series on Vogtle and what they did wrong (and right):

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyouH0mkPJXHR0hKW_iLk...
by gburn | 2025-06-23 16:52:48+00:00
I joked to a colleague that I’d pay google workspace another $10 a month just to remove the Gemini features. We are actively looking for a workspace alternative.

We tested out proton’s ‘business suite’, and it just doesn’t come close. Proton Pass is nice, but the ‘drive’ feature doesn’t have anything remotely close to what the Google Drive / Docs / Sheets / Slides ecosystem has. It also seems relatively new, so we’ll revisit it in a few months hopefully.

We also tested out Microsoft teams, and no, just no.

It’s just really convenient to onboard employees and the browser management with chrome is ultimately the deciding factor, as well as not having to worry about email deliverability.

I feel like there is a somewhat big market for someone who wants to take on the Google workspace / MS teams products. For the most part, I feel like this wouldn’t be difficult to build besides the email deliverability part being most crucial. Along with forking chromium or Firefox and reimplementing the browser management system, which also can maybe be done with an extension.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 16:53:25+00:00
a) They won't use AI to fact check reports submitted when those reports stand to make them money.

b) They can't/wont use the dragnet for daily petty revenue enforcement because then people will complain about it and it'll get reigned in and they won't be able to use it for that and all the other things people don't want them using it for.
by graypegg | 2025-06-23 16:54:17+00:00
> Really we need some common sense censorship on that site someone made for fun.

neural_thing was really good about resetting if anything went awry. It's just 1 person's toy project they wanted to share. Set your expectations of investment at that level. Detecting swasticas + every other symbol that might taint the mind of your young child is a rather hard task, and yet you expect it to be done for free for you.

I can give them a break for missing one case, and point the blame for that solely at the internet in general for trying to ruin a purely fun thing with hate.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-23 16:54:26+00:00
> Humanity's purpose is whatever we say it is.

OK.

> But I reject most genAI because it puts a greater separation between me and other people.

Sounds like connecting to other people is, if not the purpose of humanity, at least pretty central to what you consider your purpose.

And I think that many people agree. We keep hearing about an "epidemic of loneliness". That's not a problem if you don't care very much about human connection. But we do - in my impression, at least most of us do.

So I think it's fair to say that genAI destroys what many people consider to be a central purpose of humanity.
by jackienotchan | 2025-06-23 16:55:38+00:00
I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats!

YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same batch:

- Pulse (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pulse-3

- OmniAI (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai

- Extend (YC W23): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/extend

How do you differentiate from these? And how do you see the space evolving as LLMs commoditize PDF extraction?
by PaulShin | 2025-06-23 16:55:50+00:00
You've absolutely nailed the history and ethos of Git, and it's a crucial distinction. Thank you for the clarification. You're right, it wasn't a "product" in the modern sense.

My analogy wasn't intended to be about the UI or its 'one thing well' philosophy, but about the category of friction it eliminated.

Before Git, the coordination overhead for code was immense think manual patches and diffs. Git didn't write the code for anyone, but it automated away that specific, painful "collaboration tax," freeing developers to focus on the actual programming.

I see a parallel today, but the "collaboration tax" has moved. It's now the manual, repetitive work of translating team conversations into structured tasks. We believe that specific friction can also be automated away, freeing teams to focus on the actual execution.

So, you've helped me refine the analogy: It's not about building a product like Git, but about tackling a problem in the same way Git did by automating a specific, painful type of coordination overhead.
by mtalantikite | 2025-06-23 16:56:03+00:00
They're a visual artist that is often lugging around hundreds of pounds of supplies/fabricated materials/finished pieces/etc. If they just needed a laptop bag or something that'd be a different story, public transit would work for them. I think they're avoiding the tolls by just working until 2am or so every night.

I only brought this up to agree that there are definitely working class people that live in the congestion zone and happen to need a car, and the extra $200-300/month does have a real impact on their lives. It would be nice to have taken them into account a bit more.
by klik99 | 2025-06-23 16:56:21+00:00
Nice, I unfortunately need to work on Windows while also doing a lot of remote editing, so switched to emacs on wsl just to use tramp - I wasn't aware of watchexec which seems like a much better solution. However part of what makes tramp great is being able to use emacs just like it's local, so things like ag/magit/etc wouldn't work as smoothly.
by conradfr | 2025-06-23 16:56:44+00:00
Hello I'm the developer of programmes-radio.com (but non-French people should probably use https://www.radio-addict.com instead) (also the website is open source, https://github.com/conradfr/ProgRadio/)

I don't show the streaming links but it's not for lock-in but because I've never got that request :) You can just look them up using developer tools though (same for radio-garden). Not ideal on mobile I guess.

I haven't look at what radio.garden does but I proxy some http only streams that don't work well when requested from an https audio element, maybe that's what you're referring to.
by jrvieira | 2025-06-23 16:56:54+00:00
It's the old internet. I started having meaningful interactions again when I deleted most my social media accounts and rediscovered IRC and other platforms alike.

I started consuming quality content again when i replaced youtube with a FOSS wrapper that allows me to avoid the algorithm and ads, started torrenting books and getting my news through RSS feeds.

I started having fun again when I stopped using Steam and replaced it with oldschool LAN parties with my friends.

And before you accuse me of nostalgia, I never went to a LAN party when I was young, nor did I use IRC that much (the internet was expensive!).

Yes, the old internet was and still is better.
by tetris11 | 2025-06-23 16:57:37+00:00
> Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

GPU: Adreno 810 - 895-1050 - 256 shaders CPU cores: 8 - 1x2500 (Cortex-A720) - 3x2400 (Cortex-A720) - 4x1800 (Cortex-A520)

For anyone wondering, MHz.
by criddell | 2025-06-23 16:58:23+00:00
I recently heard Craig Mod[1] in an interview. He has walked thousands of miles in Japan and has produced books that document some of what he has seen. The photographs he has published online are beautiful, but I've never seen any of his books so I can't comment on those.

Anyway, in the interview, he talked about places that sound like what you are describing in the first paragraph but he called them kissas.

[1]:https://craigmod.com/
by latexr | 2025-06-23 16:58:29+00:00
> If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?

Have you ever watched a Saturday morning cartoon? Minions betray their masters all the time. An effective evil overlord doesn’t underestimate their lackey’s capacity for duplicity and betrayal at a pivotal moment.

The most fun may even appreciate the gall: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nagus_(episode)#:~:...
by roryirvine | 2025-06-23 16:58:40+00:00
The biggest saving by far was that they needed fewer people to administer them.

At the time, it was typical to assume that each sysadmin could look after a dozen machines on average, maybe twenty at best. So if each of those dozen machines could support 10-20 users on X terminals, then you'd only need a single sysadmin for every 250 users. That was a big cost saving vs having a dedicated workstation on every desk.

But in the end, DOS/Windows PCs had even bigger cost savings because most users could be expected to do minor admin tasks themselves supported by cheap IT helpdesk staff rather than expensive Unix greybeards.
by Swizec | 2025-06-23 16:59:38+00:00
> We still get the occasional "Wait. What? You can do that?"

1. From the perspective of a kid, everything is like that.

At 17 I was amazed by all sorts of things that my older peers yawned at and said "Yeah we could do that 10 years ago on desktop/mainframe/whatever". I now work with a lot of youngins. Their minds are blown by all sorts of things I find boring because we (the industry) started working on them 10+ years ago.

2. There's a lot of "wow you can do that!?" out there but it's locked in niches.

Right now I'm working on bringing bioinformatics tools to the web. It is blowing people's minds. To me the tech feels boring and obvious, to the biotech researchers it's like their whole world is revolutionizing (and they tell us as much).
by MisterTea | 2025-06-23 17:00:10+00:00
> It's similar to the issue plan9 terminals have.

To be clear: Plan 9 is not limited to terminal-server setups. It can function just fine as a stand alone OS.

> As long as you have a CPU with an MMU and some RAM

Those weren't cheap at the time. If you read the Gnot terminal presentation (early Plan 9 terminal) it is stated that they were cheap enough so a user could have one at home and one at work. It also stated that some things could run locally like the text editor and compute intensive tasks like compiling could be exported to a big expensive CPU servers. These machines had a few megs of ram and a 68000 CPU and monochrome graphics. The CPU servers were Sun, DEC, SGI, etc, machines that users could certainly not afford one of, let alone two.
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-23 17:02:16+00:00
A really good example of this was the paper that kicked off the whole "omega-3 fatty acids for heart health" thing. It ultimately got retracted.

The gist of the paper was that they observed that Inuit communities have really low rates of heart disease, and hypothesized that it could be because their traditional diet is very high in omega-3 fatty acids. The problem is, they don't actually have low rates of heart disease. They just have low rates of heart disease diagnosis, because they also have limited access to health care.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-23 17:02:30+00:00
The article as well as HITPOL8 [0][1]. WhatsApp has been blocked for the same reason Deepseek AI (the Deepseek app) is blocked - "Stewardship of Legislative Branch Data".

[0] - https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/4/2/42dca19e-194b-481e-b1...

[1] - https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/0/8/08476380-95c3-4989-ad...
by bombela | 2025-06-23 17:03:52+00:00
The removal of the phone jack is so obviously planned obsolescence, it is ironic that this project for sustainability follows the trend.

Wired headphones still have better sound quality. Don't need charging. Don't break with software update. But because of that it means less consumption.

Think about how insane it is that companies can remove the phone jack and glue in the battery with the very obvious goal of planned obsolescence. And this is legal.
by nonameiguess | 2025-06-23 17:04:04+00:00
I have no idea if there's any way to know how common it is, but it can be recommended as an anti-aging supplement for people over 55 who have specifically tested as being low in DHEA. It's not widely discussed in any kind of fitness space I've ever looked at other than teenage SARMS users who know they need to supplement with what they usually call a "testosterone base" because taking any SARM will tank natural test production. Couple that with widespread aversion to needles, which is why they're using SARMS rather than steroids in the first place, and you might sometimes see people trying to use DHEA, which isn't going to do jack shit but they'll use it anyway.

It's also one of those dubious bullshit upsell add-ons you'll see in men's clinics that exist to give people who don't need it prescriptions for TRT.

Lifelong supplementation that would be equivalent to a genetic predisposition to making more of it naturally has to be exceedingly rare, though, probably to the point that zero people ever have done it.
by sophacles | 2025-06-23 17:04:04+00:00
I guess technically "convenient" is an accurate word. Yet.... "avialable" often includes half the family walking hours each way every day to fetch water, depriving the children a chance to be educated, and adults a chance to earn income or take care of other necessities. In a lot of these regions there is a fairly high risk of being attacked on your daily water journey... I'd consider a water source that exposes me to murder an unsafe water source.

Also since you're quibbling "on the premises" its worth noting that an outside spigot/cistern/well on the property counts, as does a common water source in the courtyard of a multifamily dwelling. Depending on how the property laws, typical housing layout, and culture work in an area, that could even mean an entire village having a well - I'd have to dig into that definition more thought. That's different than "inside the home" and it's fancy "turn on the kitchen sink for a glass of water" implications.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-23 17:04:17+00:00
> despite nobody really asking for them

What people say they want and what people choose to buy are very different things.

If you ask people "Do you want ____" in isolation, they'll always say "No" if they thing you're asking about has any negative connotation.

If you put two different products on the shelf next to each other that differ by that same thing and even advertise it prominently (e.g. one says "No artifical dyes or coloring") most people would probably choose the brighter one because, at time of purchase, their reveleaed preferences are actually different. Now add an extra $0.10 to the retail price for sourcing more expensive natural colorings and even more people will choose the artificial coloring version.

This pattern plays out prominently in all things food related. If you ask people "Do you wish the food supply was healthier?" everyone is going to tell you "Yes". Then when they're deciding where to go for lunch or what to order, they'll skip right past the healthy items and choose what tastes the best.

These hypothetical free-lunch questions are useless because consumers will always claim they don't want the thing they don't understand. If you ask people if they want their food to be "preservative free" they'll tell you yes, until they see their food going bad immediately and their options dry up. Ask if they want "anti caking agents" removed from food and they'll emphatically agree, until their shredded cheese is sticking together. Food science and popular opinion are two different worlds.
by klik99 | 2025-06-23 17:04:19+00:00
Exactly this, it's hard to explain to a non-emacs user why TRAMP is so magical, but the number of times I tried to run something that was meant to run locally on my machine through TRAMP and it just worked is very impressive. It runs so smoothly that you forget you're executing things on a remote machine, and when that leaks through it's typically very easy to diagnose and fix - for instance I have ag (silver searcher) installed on my local machine, tried running a search with ag via tramp and the bin obviously wasn't on the remote machine, a simple apt-get later and I could run my search with all my custom settings remotely.

If anyones ever used the Plan 9 OS across network, TRAMP is like that for emacs
by ryandrake | 2025-06-23 17:04:25+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I don't know what to say... I'm not going to argue with your thank you letters, I'm sure your advice has helped many people! Somehow this became one of my most highly upvoted comments ever on HN, so my view of it seems to also be striking home for a lot of us.

I'm not trying to say all that matters an outsized profile. I agree that if you have that rare intersection of: 1. acing the interview, 2. a strong background with well-known companies, and 3. (critically) are job-hunting during a hiring bull market, to the point where the company cannot pick-and-choose, and they feel they must hire you, then sure, negotiation will bear some fruit. OR, if you managed to get multiple offers. I think a lot of us have never seen either of those situations.
by mattmaroon | 2025-06-23 17:04:43+00:00
I mean yes but they also still don’t think it matters. It’s a thing they consider just part of life. It’s like how a lot of Americans don’t wash hands, a lot of the world still smokes, etc.

You find plenty of democracies around the world with unsafe drinking water and no politicians really talking about it because the people just don’t care.
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-23 17:05:07+00:00
Look, I'll agree with you that driving should be made less accessible to the general public, and that everyone should have go through a driving test each 5 years where they among other things, get to drive an old manual car with no electronics, no power steering or electronic throttle control, or any assists, on shit roads with deep ditches, and show that they can park it, and while at it that they can exchange its fluids and change its tyres...

I'm pretty sure that the upheaval against any government that takes such a position is going to be a thing to behold, which is why the general approach in the EU has been working around shit drivers with technology to achieve net less deaths and emissions, while making walking, public transport, and biking more attractive. As opposed to making driving less accessible, so that only good drivers are left on the road, while no convenient alternatives exist for the rest.
by WorldPeas | 2025-06-23 17:05:17+00:00
A big company can create value though, as an arbiter of quality like Sears was. Sears was a logistics company that offered push-button value for commodities much like Amazon basics. I think that before their economic philosophy was ruined(long story short one of the managers was a big fan of inter-departmental competition, same thing what killed RCA). Perhaps the problem here is America lacks a Sears option, save for Wal-mart, which doesn't offer the same quality. I think the middle class would benefit from a catalog offering push-button quality options, but such a thing does not exist, perhaps Sears undid themselves by making items that would last decades (still using all the power tools they made in the 90s and 2000s, and some of the clothes/blankets too)
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 17:05:31+00:00
For me the worst thing of the last 20 years has been the "ahistorical turn" where people aren't even interested in looking at the 1990s or the 1970s never mind the heroic age of Communism or the Ancien Reigme solar economy.

Personally I think ancient Japan is more interesting than ancient Rome because Kyoto didn't fall so far and the Tokugawa age made the transition to the Meiji age at a running pace. But really, looking at distant times and places gives some insight into the possibility that things could be different and we're not stuck in a postmodern end of history.
by simcop2387 | 2025-06-23 17:05:50+00:00
This is one reason that I'm still upset about the failure that SCTP has ended up. It really did try to create a new protocol for dealing with exactly all of these issues but support and ossification basically meant it's a non-starter. I'd have loved if it was a mandatory part of IPv6 so that it'd eventually get useful support but I'm pretty sure that would have made IPv6 adoption even worse.
by safety1st | 2025-06-23 17:06:09+00:00
I miss the world as it was before pervasive social media. Compared to back then, we are now utterly consumed by the opinions of people we don't know and will never meet. We spend time worrying unreasonably about what a disembodied hive mind thinks or how it might harm us if our opinions don't conform. We have research which shows that social media has added to the depression and anxiety in the world and contributed to a mental health crisis. This has nothing to do with my childhood or my middle or high school years, I was well out of college before Facebook was created.
by rlue | 2025-06-23 17:06:26+00:00
Great concept. But author, if you're reading this: a piece like this could be so much better with a quick summary of what it does somewhere in the first two paragraphs. Something like:

"I've leveraged my home automation system to limit my access to social media to 15 minutes at a time, no more than once an hour. Using the built-in adblock feature, my router black-holes DNS queries to social media by default—which I can now disable temporarily by pushing the button on any one of several smart outlets around my house."
by ppseafield | 2025-06-23 17:07:22+00:00
Which SoC should they switch to? Google's Pixel phones for Android 16's release just updated[0] their kernels to 6.1, which means the bleeding edge kernel version for Android phones is a release from December 2022. What Qualcomm SoCs are supported by this kernel, and how fast are they?

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-linux-6-1-android-15-...
by celeritascelery | 2025-06-23 17:07:52+00:00
> TRAMP rarely seemed worth it to fiddle with, especially when such a workflow supports all tools

The problem is that this workflow doesn't support all tools (or even most tools in my case). The remote machines are a different OS with more RAM and are set up with all the tools and production environments needed. I can't run most of the locally (at least not without massive effort and porting). If you have an environment where you can easily run locally or remotely, then your workflow would make sense.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-23 17:08:03+00:00
To expand on "great public health successes": folic acid supplementation is particularly important if you're pregnant, because it significantly reduces the odds of having a baby with neural tube defects like spina bifida (which is one of the milder NTDs, frankly). But it's also important even if you're not pregnant because B vitamin deficiencies will wreck your health.

This also reminded me of a great post from a few years ago about why salt is fortified with iodine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782954