MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gray_-_wolf | 2025-06-23 16:06:25+00:00
The thing is TRAMP also gives you a shell, not just a file access. When I am in a remote buffer, I can do M-x shell, and I will get a command line running on the remote host. What is more, since the T stands for Transparent, when I want to insert e.g. output of some command into a buffer, the command is executed on the remote host and I do not have to do anything special to achieve that, it just happens auto-magically based on the directory of current file (local vs. remote). I find that useful, and you cannot really do these things with a network drive on Windows.
by timr | 2025-06-23 16:07:02+00:00
Hah, hilarious. I used to live not far from this place. [1]

I don't know the story behind the structure, but it was a re-purposed storage shed [2] that someone was either subletting or owned outright. Probably the former -- the area is not remote, and is surrounded by new housing. Most likely is that some landowner is making a little bit of cash by renting out the space, and the business owner is exploiting the niche of having a cheap property so near to Nijo castle (a tourist black zone in Kyoto).

Setting aside the aesthetics, the most "Japan" thing about this is that it's possible at all to get a license to run a food establishment, electricity service, etc. in such a marginal space. It would never be allowed in the US.

Secondarily, leaseholder rights in Japan are pretty different than in other parts of the world. It's fairly common, even in major cities, to find underdeveloped, tiny little plots of land where there's a lessee who has a ~perpetual right to the space, independent of the "owner". Landowners will buy and sell the underlying rights to the rental cashflow, almost like a long-term bond, with no hope for redevelopment, and the lessee can independently sell the rental rights [3]. Again, I don't know if that's what is going on here, but it wouldn't surprise me. These kind of situations make it feasible for a business owner to invest in creating a business in what is essentially a potting shed -- one of the major risks would be that no one rationally would want to keep that old building in place in an area of Kyoto that could be more fully developed. But as you can see, this building is completely surrounded by new construction, and has been for many years.

[1] It's here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3KtWnTAkmatMqN9b6

[2] I could be wrong about this part. The roof is tiled, which is pretty fancy for a shed. My recollection was that it was far too small to ever have been a house, but it's possible that it was originally a section of a larger machiya, which would make sense for the area and the geometry of the lot.

[3] This is sort of like mineral rights or air rights in the US. It's not a totally foreign concept to us, we just don't do it for houses or...shacks.

This streetview gives a better perspective on exactly what is around it -- you have new development in front and behind, and the area immediately to the front of the shop is a dedicated parking area for a nearby business. I suspect that the shop and the parking area are part of the same parcel, owned by the business.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0112669,135.7504895,3a,89.9y...
by imiric | 2025-06-23 16:07:10+00:00
TRAMP is neat, but I find watchexec+rsync to be a much more performant alternative. This way I keep editing files locally, and they're simply synced to the remote host when they change. This workflow also has the benefit of being able to use all my local tooling, it keeps a local copy which I often need, it supports any editor (forgive me, Father rms), and is easily configurable (include or exclude files, delete files on the remote, etc.).
by disambiguation | 2025-06-23 16:07:24+00:00
Previous Attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant

tl;dr it was commissioned, constructed, and closed due to local safety concerns in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident.

Interesting excerpt from the wiki:

In 2004, the Long Island Power Authority erected two 100-foot, 50 kW wind turbines at the Shoreham Energy Center site,[18] as part of a renewable-energy program.[19][20] At a ceremony, chairman Kessel stated, "We stand in the shadow of a modern-day Stonehenge, a multibillion-dollar monument to a failed energy policy, to formally commission the operation of a renewable energy technology that will harness the power of the wind for the benefit of Long Island's environment." The turbines generate 200 MWh per year, or 1/35,000th of the energy the nuclear plant would have produced.[21]
by rurp | 2025-06-23 16:08:09+00:00
We're so many years from that point that it's impossible to make reliable predictions. I was hearing these claims over a decade ago and we're only marginally closer. The vast majority of miles driven still happen in locations and/or conditions that self driving isn't reliable at.

There is a massive long tail of unusual cases that happen outside of major cities that nobody is even really trying to solve at the moment because there isn't much of a profit motive compared to dense cities.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-06-23 16:08:51+00:00
In the long term it makes zero difference if you don't recycle it. You'll end up with an unsustainable mountain of waste either way.

On the other hand, at the limit, with 100% recycling, whether you change every 2 years or 7 also makes little difference.

I really don't understand the push-back here. IMHO it really shows how wrapped by political ideology (degrowth, anti-consumption and ultimately anti-capitalism) this all is when the facts in terms of sustainability are clear: We must recycle very effectively and efficiently what we produce, otherwise in the long term we'll just marginally change the thickness of the waste the planet will end up covered with.

Regarding "degrowth", the one that we probably must go after to reduce our impact is population degrowth but strangely and illogically this is the one people don't want to hear about.
by julienchastang | 2025-06-23 16:09:24+00:00
The LLMs debates have been raging for a while now, and I think this is one of the most insightful comments I've read on this topic. I also think what you describe can also be applied to writing with LLMs. In short, your idea of a 3rd way forward, i.e., bespoke coding (or writing) is the only viable path forward, but using LLMs to accelerate that. This is actually sort of what I have been doing with my use of LLMs. The problem is you have to be really careful in not letting yourself take mental shortcuts as LLMs can sometime produce deceivingly dazzling results until you realize some of that is front of you is BS, however it did still produce something useful that you now have to clean up leading to productivity gains.
by potatolicious | 2025-06-23 16:10:36+00:00
> "on what timescale though?"

Depends on how extensive the growth is and how structurally stable the thing is in the first place. But expect major problems on the decades-timescale.

> "and in an invisible way?"

Yes. This is the main problem with allowing unconstrained plant growth near/in/under structures - the degree of structural compromise is hard to assess (especially without spending a lot of $$$), and failure can be sudden. You're not gonna get as much warning as you'd want.

In the US it's a popular look to have vines growing against brick walls. They're beautiful but often hazardous for structural safety, especially if not proactively maintained and constantly monitored (which is $$$!)

[edit] I think overall the focus on the "pleasantly ramshackle" aesthetics of the shack misses the forest for the trees. There's a lot of daylight between "permit small businesses in possibly unsafe structures" and "western status quo norms for business licensure".

I think something Japan gets done really well is making it easy and inexpensive to run businesses, especially hobby businesses. There are a ton of policies that encourage this outcome, and we can and should adopt entire rafts of them without changing existing regs about the physical structural stability of said businesses ;)
by mpearl19 | 2025-06-23 16:11:02+00:00
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by snickerbockers | 2025-06-23 16:11:18+00:00
I agree in principle but this was (probably) a result of somebody fat-fingering the wrong contact and I do think there's some culpability on either the app or the phone for making that possible to do by mistake. Touch screens are an inherently clumsy interface, and Android in general has a lot of problems with UI elements suddenly moving around without warning as you're clicking on things. And then there's auto correct, UI hanging for several seconds at a time only to suddenly wake up and replay everything that you tried to do while it was non responsive, phantom button presses caused by the device getting too warm, etc.

None of this is meant to excuse these officials for not authenticating everybody in that group or for using highly informal text messages to plan an airstrike of all things.

Ultimately there's no excuse for leaking information when you're at that level of government; I just feel like the app industry needs to take responsibility and fix several obvious, well-known and common UI issues.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-23 16:11:26+00:00
AI is going to get more interesting. Right now you get vanilla chats and weird, generated images. Eventually AI will have the wealth of all knowledge and a personality.

Is that frightening? Maybe. But it is considerably more cerebral than the infinite scroll/influencer status quo. And there will always be personal interaction and voice/video with realness attestation.

Also, imho we don't want islands of real people since we've seen the islands turn into facebook and tiktok. We need networks of real people interleaved with whatever the rest of the net decides it wants to be.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 16:11:28+00:00
Okay then, apply the "you" to "one who your comments ring true to."

I understand the dynamic you're pointing to, but it's simply not something that's solvable from the institutional/scientific-community side. We cannot allow institutions to actually control media, nor can we allow science to "go private."

The responsibility, which you and I both should reaffirm, is that individuals need to better manage their own information ecosystem and diet!

Do you have another solution?
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-23 16:11:29+00:00
For Danone it's more of a growing ambition. They've depleted water sources in France at multiple times and have declared aiming for more engagement on the African market for the next decades [0]. Their involvement is more in partnership with Veolia which holds the main contracts [1], so I should have put Veolia forward for more clarity, but I see Danone as just not being good enough at this game to be shunned at the bigger players' level.

> nor France itself (private companies, Swiss or French, aren't "France")

These companies aren't existing in a vacuum, and the French government will protect these interests when shit hits the fan. Veolia in particular is basically a private arm managing a critical field that should be government managed in any other setting.

It would be like saying that Lockheed Martin is a private company that doesn't involve the USA, when the government will bend over backward to protect these interests.

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/02/23/danone-pr...

[1] https://www.veoliawatertech.com/fr/ressources/articles/danon...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 16:12:22+00:00
Does everything have to be political these days? My RSS reader shows me a lot of articles about mRNA technology but I never post them to HN because it brings out all the kooks.

Three trends in chemical recycling of plastics are: (i) disorganized processes based on pyrolysis that break plastics down to BTEX chemicals [1] and fuels, (ii) organized processes that break plastics down to mostly pure monomers (sometimes with pyrolysis, often with chemicals or enzymes under mild conbdition) and (iii) upcycling processes.

(i) and (ii) produces products that are 50 cents a pound so the juice is often not worth the squeeze, particularly when landfilling costs well under 5 cents per pound.

With (iii) you could make chemicals that are a lot more valuable but these aren't scalable answers to plastic waste for one reason: there is just so much paracetamol people can take compared to how much plastic waste there is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry) -- so far as Exxon-Mobil sees it, this is the raw stuff that they sell for people to make plastics
by upofadown | 2025-06-23 16:12:36+00:00
Yeah, but Signal really didn't help them at all with that. As with most of these phone oriented encrypted messengers, Signal is pretty sloppy with identity management. It would be hard to find a better example of this than SignalGate 1.0.

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:sg End to End Encrypted Messaging in the News: An Editorial Usability Case Study (my article)
by _0ffh | 2025-06-23 16:12:40+00:00
Yes, you design a curriculum and feed it to the LLM. One person con do that for a course once, and then you can broadly leave it like that, with occasional updates - while each student gets their own personal teacher.

Educational cost could plummet like a rock while significantly improving results, if we just dare to allow it!

> wouldn't it be even more important for employers to be able to vet potential hires

Yes, I mentioned "testing" twice already. And most of that could be done via LLM as well, at least a coarse pre-screening for the obvious frauds. Also, where are all those people who claim to be Physicists "simply because they talked to an Physicist for a few hours"? You send the children through the curriculum, then you test them, as I said. Doesn't even have to be the same institution that does it.

School as we know it is a dead institution walking, and good riddance, and I very much hope the universities as we know them will cease to exists right along with it.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-06-23 16:13:05+00:00
It's a shame because the datagram paradigm is so much more elegant. In real world cases you end up having to emulate it by putting length prefixed data in TCP streams, reducing TCP timeouts, constantly reconnecting sockets (with the latency penalty), etc.

Really, the only thing that's missing from UDP is (optional) backpressure.

A lot of software can handle out-of-order datagrams with no performance penalty (like file uploads, etc.). This is especially annoying when you're operating in an environment with link aggregation where the interface insists on limiting your bandwidth to a single link.
by pier25 | 2025-06-23 16:13:37+00:00
In 2024 OpenAI generated some $3.5B in revenue and still lost like $5B. It means they spent something like $8.5B to run this thing [1].

They would have lost less money if they had been selling dollars at 50 cents.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-t...
by baxtr | 2025-06-23 16:13:41+00:00
>Andy Stone, a spokesperson for WhatsApp parent company Meta, said in a statement to Axios, "We disagree with the House Chief Administrative Officer's characterization in the strongest possible terms."

(..)

"Messages on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning only the recipients and not even WhatsApp can see them. This is a higher level of security than most of the apps on the CAO's approved list that do not offer that protection."
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-23 16:14:33+00:00
Most of the time, I don't carry a wallet so I just use my phone to tap and pay at the store. To get to the store, I use my phone on the bus to tap and buy ticket. To get back into my residence, I need to use the app on my phone to open the main gate as well as access the lift.

I can still do the first two without the phone but my housing society has eliminated physical cards with basically zero consultation.

It is basically a losing battle.
by throwanem | 2025-06-23 16:15:07+00:00
Better not to form the habit, I thought. I'm sure I miss out on some things that way, but that is the lesser risk.

I do use the Gemini assistant that came with this Android, in the same cases and with the same caveats with which I use Siri's fallback web search. As a synthesist of web search results, an LLM isn't half bad, when it doesn't come as a surprise to be hearing from one at least.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-23 16:15:59+00:00
Those are diffraction spikes, caused by how the light interacts with the support structure holding the secondary mirror. Each telescope has different patterns, hubble, jwst, etc. I think they only happen for stars, and not for galaxies (an easy way to know which is which), but I might be wrong on that (there's a possibility for faint stars not to have them IIRC).
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 16:16:03+00:00
> The Luddite movement isn't conservative

No? To be conservative is to be hesitant of change. I know you say the Luddites have been misrepresented, but if they don't represented at least that much... What do they represent?

> it is human!

These aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, I expect every human is conservative sometimes.
by tayo42 | 2025-06-23 16:16:11+00:00
a technical assessment imo would be more effective if we just talked directly about the topics. If you want to discuss tradeoffs in database choice, just ask about it. Or talk about projects where I actually made those decisions and why.

Instead the system design interview has turned into a role playing game where there is a rubric on the other side and you need to hope you hit the topics the interviewer expects. Now it can be memorized. Its detached from reality the same way leetcode questions are and people are memorizing complex answers.

This style of interview can be a way to demonstrate technical skills if it allowed it, but instead we have people memorizing how to implement rate limiters or re-designing websites in 30 minutes that have been built up over a decade.
by lowkey_ | 2025-06-23 16:16:25+00:00
Not the above commenter, but:

> stolen from the hands of the Native Americans who had stewarded them for millennia before colonialism in different forms devastated their tribes. Through invasions, plagues, violence, coercion, bribery, war, and lopsided deals with the United States government, Indigenous groups and their ways of life were nearly obliterated

This clearly implies that invasions, violence, war, were brought by the US government to indigenous groups.

In reality, their "way of life" always consisted of these things.

It's a clear myth being perpetuated in the language of this article — even in words like 'stewarded' vs. 'stolen'.
by yzjumper | 2025-06-23 16:16:27+00:00
Not the user above, but I am using the iOS app PrivateLLM when I need offline access or use uncensored models. I use kappa-3-phi-abliterated, models under 6B usually work without crashing. Using Ollama on my Mac Mini 24GB base processor (M4 not M4 pro), I am able to run 7B models. On the mac I am able to set up API access.

Funny enough the mac has almost the same processor as my iPhone 16 Pro, so its just a RAM constraint, and of course PrivateLLM does not let you host an API.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-06-23 16:16:35+00:00
Depends how well the turntable is decoupled from its plinth. Think in terms of a lumped systems model with a mass on a spring being driven by (probably lower frequency) vibrations from the speakers.

"Now that I think about it, there was nothing in this shop that would tell you it isn’t still, say, 1960."

I'd go for 1980s based on the amplifier, turntable and speakers. It would be a radiogram, probably valve based, in actual 1960s. Nice though.
by MajimasEyepatch | 2025-06-23 16:17:02+00:00
Normally, if you compile the same code twice on the same machine, you'll get the same result, even if it's not truly reproducible across machines or large gaps in time. And differences between machines or across time are usually small enough that they don't impact the observed behavior of the code, especially if you pin your dependencies.

However, with LaTeX, the output of the first run is often an input to the second run, so you get notably different results if you only compile it once vs. compiling twice. When I last wrote LaTeX about ten years ago, I usually encountered this with page numbers and tables of context, since the page numbers couldn't be determined until the layout was complete. So the first pass would get the bulk of the layout and content in place, and then the second pass would do it all again, but this time with real page numbers. You would never expect to see something like this in a modern compiler, at least not in a way that's visible to the user.

(That said, it's been ten years, and I never compiled anything as long or complex as a PhD thesis, so I could be wrong about why you have to compile twice.)
by crossroadsguy | 2025-06-23 16:17:27+00:00
I just want a a very simple Markdown like syntax to make a very basic resume with just few features that are not in Md:

- custom spacing - horizontal/vertical (after list dots/numbers etc as well)

- justifying the text

- custom margins

And for that something like this is an overkill. Less than Tex but still an overkill.

Hell, I can do with a flavoured markdown if it supports this.
by weego | 2025-06-23 16:17:55+00:00
I'm not a product fit, but I would like to take a moment to praise the detailed beauty of the design work on the site.

From the typography and layout to the line-work down to how the gradients in the, in fashion, large logotype at the bottom of the footer are tied in by using texture.

Was it in house, or an agency? I'd love to see some more of whoever's work it was
by justin66 | 2025-06-23 16:18:09+00:00
A cursory look at Byte Magazine from September of 1987: a 233MB Priam hard drive for $2888 dollars. That's with a crappy RLL interface rather than SCSI.

If you think about a lab full of computers doing relatively simple Unix work, and how much money would be saved by just having a single drive (and all other things being equal, which they of course aren't), it's not trivial.
by skydhash | 2025-06-23 16:18:27+00:00
It's not only about transparent access. It's about how the whole emacs ecosystem working with the files. So you can bookmark a remote file, and once accessed, you can launch dired (the file manager) for the file's directory, run the shell on the remote,... with the same binding and mechanism you have for local files. No need to alter configuration or launch a special windows for the project.
by btreecat | 2025-06-23 16:18:48+00:00
Neat idea, need to investigate how targeted the disruption is. You can do a lot with very little power and noise by doing targeted disruption. EG target the sync window.

The 30m range to me indicates they might just be trying to blast noise on all 2.4 given the called out applications.

I could see this being useful to test the resiliency of RC control links. Some modern links operate below the noise floor, but can dynamically scale up power to 2w. They might be able to punch through just overpowering the jammer.

Could be useful to simulate a very high noise floor environment or flying around something that has a lot of spurious emissions.

Recently was flying a drone around an oil rig in Ohio. Now using a loRa based RC control link. This is the first time I didn't have any issues with dropped connection compared to previous control link systems.

I would love to test it out in the lab first to have higher confidence in the field.