MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-06-23 23:57:07+00:00
And more interestingly, the specific reasons various installations were unable to start up as they should have:

> Incidents detected during equipment start-up - Firstly, there is information consistent with the fact that several installations with the obligation of autonomous start-up were finally unable to provide this service in a stable manner, joining the system only once voltage had arrived from outside (from another of the "islands", normally anchored in one of the interconnections). This slowed down the start-up of the "skeleton" of the electricity system that would later make it possible to replenish the supply to demand.

The rest of the ~2 pages in that section is redacted.
by snvzz | 2025-06-23 23:58:07+00:00
I wonder if I am alone in thinking 5yr is way too short. It should be 10, if not 20 years.

This is software, not hardware. It is ridiculous to pretend it is ok for a phone to artificially stop being useful after just 5 years simply because the vendor won't give software support or even provide the necessary documentation, source code and keys for the community to do.
by dekhn | 2025-06-23 23:59:39+00:00
That's a great question. To the extent that increasing the budget caused more smart people to get PhDs and more of them were able to contribute to the scientific effort (as well as help bigtech develop ML and contribute back to science), I think it was a good idea.

It might have been better executed- somehow matching the increased supply of grad students with increase supply of faculty positions, or perhaps just growing it more slowly to let the inequalities equilibrate a bit more. But ultimately, I think it was a good thing, in that it increased the total science being done.
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-24 00:00:24+00:00
Lying in an exit interview is also an exercise of freedom.

Once I am leaving, I am not being paid for my sincerity. They should know why they suck, I am not going to do consultancy for free.

What makes anyone a slave to future wage payers is not the sincerity of exit interviews (or lack thereof). It is the bills, they keep coming.
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-24 00:00:31+00:00
The Linux-on-mobile community is already exploring viable input methods for low-end devices with non-touch screens. Much of this effort can also be shared with the work involving TV-remote or gamepad-driven interfaces for the "media center" or "game console" use cases. Since Mobian is ultimately intended to just be a lightweight overlay over Debian, all of this work can easily benefit future versions of Mobian.
by MediumD | 2025-06-24 00:00:47+00:00
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by DannyBee | 2025-06-24 00:00:52+00:00
Retention orders of this kind are not uncommon and the judge has not ordered it be turned over to anyone until they hear arguments on it.

I note with amazement that tons of hn users with zero legal experience, let alone judge experience, are sure its the judge who doesn't understand, not them. Based on what I don't know but they really are sure they get it more than the judge!
by energywut | 2025-06-24 00:01:32+00:00
Yes. The energy in a vehicle increases with the square of the velocity. A car going 40 has nearly DOUBLE the kinetic energy of a car going 30 and the braking time required to stop a car is therefore also significantly increased.

That lower speed limit was set for a reason.

Additionally, predictable car movement is important for wildlife, pedestrians, and other vehicles. If the cars on that street always go 30, the others there will learn to predict the movement of a car. If some rando car start speeding along at 40 out of the blue, that will disrupt the calculations and decision making of everyone else.

Finally, are we comfortable saying, "Any company can decide whether it thinks obeying the speed limit is important, and is free to go over the speed limit by 1/3rd if they deem it safe"? Are we sure that precedent is healthy and desirable? I'm not. I don't think automated cars should just decide to add 33% to a speed limit and go that fast in normal operating conditions.

So yes, it does matter.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-24 00:01:57+00:00
FaceID is still not working well for many cases. I thought it was just my family, but it seems common enough [0].

It's nice that is works for you, but it really sucks when it fails as there's no other biometric alternative. And changing their whole ecosystem just to get working biometrics is a high bar for many.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Makeup/comments/wfjy5x/apple_id_doe...
by jamiek88 | 2025-06-24 00:02:18+00:00
It’s weird, I’ve travelled for work and pleasure more than pretty much anyone I meet (I’ve visited 90 countries, worked in 21, lived longer term in 5. Currently settled West Coast US) and I’m somewhat of a fast food connoisseur lol - KFC, Domino’s, BK, Pizza Hut, etc are all without exception better in Europe and Asia with the exception of ,in my opinion , McDonalds. Maccies is better here as a rule. Sure you get the shitty franchisees sometimes but generally speaking!

This is a semi controversial opinion so, it’s interesting you feel the same way!
by petra | 2025-06-24 00:02:48+00:00
//If an application takes off, it is eventually cheaper and more performant to switch to ASICs,

That's part of the FPGA business model - they have an automated way to take an FPGA design and turn it into a validated semi-custom ASIC, at low NRE, at silicon nodes(10nm?) you wouldn't have access to otherwise.

And all of that at a much lower risk. This is a strong rational but also emotional appeal. And people are highly influenced by that.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-24 00:05:04+00:00
> They were obviously not trying to make a sweeping comment about the entire future of the field

OP said “AI can very efficiently apply common patterns to vast amounts of code, but it has no inherent "idea" of what it's doing.”

I'm not going to patronize you by explaining why this is not "very precise", or why its lack of temporal caveats is an issue, as I've already done so in an earlier comment. If you're still confused, you should read the sentence a few times until you understand. OP did not even mention which specific model they tested, and did not provide any specific prompt example.

> Are you using ChatGPT to write your loquacious replies?

If you can't handle a few short paragraphs as a reply, or find it unworthy of your time, you are free to stop arguing. The Hacker News guidelines actually encourage substantive responses.

I also assume that in the future, accusing a user of using ChatGPT will be against site guidelines, so you may as well start phasing that out of your repertoire now.

Here are some highlights from the Hacker News guidelines regarding comments:

- Don't be snarky

- Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

- Assume good faith

- Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by knlb | 2025-06-24 00:05:45+00:00
My similar trick is to rely on the tmux scrollback and pipe tokenized output into fzf so I can easily autocomplete in zsh against anything on the visible tmux screen

https://www.threads.com/@kunalb_/post/C6ZQIOVpwMd https://gist.github.com/kunalb/abfe5757e89ffba1cf3959c9543d9...

which has been really useful.
by energywut | 2025-06-24 00:06:24+00:00
Alcohol is harmful, but I have a glass of wine or whiskey from time to time. HN is my glass of whiskey.

I create an account, and delete it once I start feeling invested. If I can downvote people, I've probably ridden that account too long.

Once I start seeing the number next to my name and think "I should make that number bigger! This is fun!" then I've hit the point that I'm too invested. I'm letting the number make decisions, not me.

Then I delete it. I'll leave it deleted until I find a comment I simply cannot not respond to, and deal with being a green text person again for awhile. I'll get irritated at being blocked by default for most folks, and engage less.

It helps me self-moderate a slightly toxic experience so it's something I enjoy without it becoming a problem.
by cwillu | 2025-06-24 00:06:51+00:00
“Everyone discussing some fission superbomb is falling for the hype.

Nuclear reactors are dangerous not because of some sci-fi chain reaction that might or might not happen, they're dangerous now for perfectly predictable reasons stemming primarily from radiation and radioactive waste.”

The straight forward mitigation for the hypothetical situation is to halt development; this is not what the ai companies are pushing for, so I'm not convinced that this line of thinking can be meaningfully attributed to the marketing strategy of ai companies.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-24 00:07:15+00:00
Church-Turing doesn't touch upon intelligence nor consciousness. It talks about "effective procedures". It claims that every effectively computable thing is Turing computable. And effective procedures are such that "Its instructions need only to be followed rigorously to succeed. In other words, it requires no ingenuity to succeed."

Church-Turing explicitly doesn't touch upon ingenuity. It's very well compatible with Church-Turing that humans are capable of some weird decision making that is not modelable with the Turing machine.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-24 00:07:38+00:00
> It turns out that many of the things you need to thrive in a PhD program translate to bigtech engineering needfs.

This is contrary to my life experience (even for math or physics PhDs).

What makes a great PhD thesis is to question an insane lot of assumptions of deep results in the field of your PhD thesis, and show that if you base these on a very different foundation, these results generalize to whole different areas; e.g. you found a bridge between seemingly unrelated areas of studies.

On the other hand, managers deeply hate it if you question a lot of assumptions behind the work that you do, whether it is some special case of something deeper, and aren't obedient to the manager's leadership.

In other words: a great PhD program teaches you to think and work all the time on things managers will hate you for.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-24 00:08:25+00:00
That is a very weak excuse to avoid these tools.

I know the tools and environments I am working in. I verify the implementations I make by testing them. I review everything I am generating.

The idea that AI is going to trick me is absurd. I'm a professional, not some vibe coding script kiddie. I can recognise when the AI makes mistakes.

Have the humility to see that not everyone using AI is someone who doesn't know what they are doing and just clicks accept on every idea from the AI. That's not how this works.
by LightHugger | 2025-06-24 00:08:25+00:00
That specific set of policies is being specifically implemented by IBM/Red hat. It's not exactly a small niche company, and it is very obviously directly related to the situation and the need to fork. It's also not a partisan interpretation, it's the only objective legal interpretation. Objective truth exists despite your efforts to pretend otherwise. Yes, there are stupid ignorant people who will see the words "DEI bad" interpret it wrongly. But it doesn't make them correct.
by Gigachad | 2025-06-24 00:08:35+00:00
At a minimum you get locked in a damp basement for an unknown amount of time while they book a flight for you, which happened to an Australian journalist recently.

The general vibe I'm hearing in Australia is that people are afraid to travel to the US right now if they have any reason at all to raise suspicion (being trans, having posted political comments, etc).
by johnnyjeans | 2025-06-24 00:10:18+00:00
> That's simply a reality, just as weavers saw massive layoffs in the wake of the automated loom, or scribes lost work after the printing press, or human calculators became pointless after high-precision calculators became commonplace.

See, this is the kind of conception of a programmer I find completely befuddling. Programming isn't like those jobs at all. There's a reason people who are overly attached to code and see their job as "writing code" are pejoratively called "code monkeys." Did CAD kill the engineer? No. It didn't. The idea is ridiculous.
by kev009 | 2025-06-24 00:11:13+00:00
For a while in the 2000s Cisco was one of the biggest users of FPGAs. If you consider how complicated digital designs have been for many decades, and the costs of associated failures, FPGAs can certainly be cost neutral at scale, especially accounting for risk and reputational damage, into production lines.

Also there is a large gamut and pretty much always has been for decades of programmable logic.. some useful parts are not much more than a mid range microcontroller. The top end is for DoD, system emulation, novel frontier/capture regimes (like "AI", autonomous vehicles).. few people ever work on those compared to the cheaper parts.
by fizx | 2025-06-24 00:11:44+00:00
I miss SF in the early 2010s.

- gorgeous 3-seat wine bar inside my laundromat

- hidden sushi restaurant in friends garage

- hole-in-the wall coffee shop with only cushion seats on the floor and $1.50 breakfast sandos, frequented almost exclusively by writing clubs

- corner store with half-stocked shelves, still using a cash register that printed receipts with a mechanical typewriter
by croes | 2025-06-24 00:12:14+00:00
Where did I say natural dyes should be used?

The subject was artificial dyes and parent found it illogical banning them without proper proof of harm.

My point is, at least for food, there should be proof of no harm.

I said nothing about natural dyes. Why do so many people read A is bad as not-A is good?

And if all is tested so well why was red 3 banned so late?
by rocqua | 2025-06-24 00:12:33+00:00
I came here to (wrongly) say that wooden disks were never used as wheels, and that ot all started with spokes. Some checking showed that, in fact, the oldest known wheels have a lot of solid disks. E.g: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Marshes_Wheel

Hopefully this can disabuse others of similar mistaken memory.
by duskwuff | 2025-06-24 00:12:33+00:00
Is this still an active thing? My understanding is that both Xilinx and Altera/Intel have effectively discontinued their ASIC programs (Xilinx EasyPath, Altera HardCopy); they aren't available for modern part families.

For what it's worth, Xilinx EasyPath was never actually ASIC. The parts delivered were still FPGAs; they were just FPGAs with a reduced testing program focusing on functionality used by the customer's design.
by crmd | 2025-06-24 00:12:44+00:00
> The New York Power Authority—created nearly a century ago by then-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt to manage hydropower production on behalf of the public

This is rich considering that NYPA’s current customers are exclusively government entities. I found this out when researching why I pay among the highest cost per KWh in the country despite having the largest non profit publicly owned power utility in the country.
by sidibe | 2025-06-24 00:12:45+00:00
Yes he invited all the Tesla influencers / TSLA stock promoters to Austin and they're the only ones allowed to use this service for now, predictably they are gushing about it and even on the rides with the screw ups they avoid mentioning them in the videos, just other people pointed them out on X

Funnily enough some of the stock promoters were streaming themselves getting to the ride area accidentally using Waymos through Uber
by kypro | 2025-06-24 00:13:00+00:00
To be clear, currently I think it's likely within the next 10 years we'll have ASI. But I think it's also quite possible that we won't have ASI for 20-30 years, and it's quite possible that moderate advancements in AI will be destabilising enough that we never reach ASI.

I think a lot of people who talk about AI risk underweight the fairly likely scenario that highly capable narrow AIs are leveraged in ways that lead to civilisational collapse. Humans getting to ASI assumes that prior advancements are not destabilising or if they are destabilising the advancements happen quickly enough that it doesn't matter.

That said, I think ASI is more likely that not. And I think ASI within 5-10 years is very likely.
by o11c | 2025-06-24 00:13:06+00:00
Fragmentation is one major reason to use fixed size classes. After just a few allocate/free-a-bit cycles, you can very easily end up with a large amount of free space in unusably tiny chunks. (this is one reason why languages with a Garbage Generator tend to prefer being allowed to move and compact their objects - their whole thing is keeping the allocator as simple as possible to beat the benchmarks, so they can't use the usual solutions)

There's also the matter of space overhead.

A bitmap allocator is simple and has an overhead of 1 bit per chunk (allocated or not). Normally the chunk is at least 16 bytes, but if you know you're doing smaller allocations there's nothing stopping you from doing one at byte granularity.

If there exists an invalid value (for example, UTF-8 strings cannot contain the byte 0xff), you can implement allocators with zero overhead, though efficiency requires changing the API (`malloc` requires writing to all the memory to erase the tombstones, so it's more efficient for the allocator to support `strdup` and `realloc_strcat` directly).

By bucketing you can vary the overhead based on allocation size. But also remember, a lot of the trickery you can do here comes at the cost of becoming more vulnerable to use-after-free bugs.

Besides all the missing APIs, one major annoyance related to allocators is the fact that userland lacks support for CPU-local variables that the kernel can use for more efficient operations. `rseq` helps a little but still falls short.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-06-24 00:14:12+00:00
> just give us a second fucking USB port

So much this. I had an nVidia (Tegra?) based phone with USB, headphone jack, HDMI.

While I don't think a USB port would allow for FM radio using the headphone cord simply having more would be fantastic! But if laptop designers can barely fit two USB-C ports I'm not sure what chance we have against the phone designers...
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-06-24 00:15:11+00:00
No accounting for taste, but my similarly terse vim config includes relativenumber and number. Relativenumber is just so damn useful for doing things to larger chunks of code without having to count lines or anything.

I'm also an IDE user though. I tend to maintain a dichotomy between emacs(with evil-mode, of course) as the "kitchen sink" set up, with all the fixings, and vim with a config so short I can type it in as commands if I need to.

Vanilla vim is really perfect for quick edits to config files, scripts on random servers/VMs etc.

Bigger projects, at least for my usage, all happen on the same system , and having a bit more involved of an emacs set up makes sense there.

I suppose one could do a similar dichotomy with vim/neovim, if one had a distaste for emacs.
by dekhn | 2025-06-24 00:17:00+00:00
Certainly a subset of PhDs who work at bigtech fail to have any impact. I've seen a few brilliant but inflexible people hit up against the immovable parts of a corporation. I've also seen brilliant PhDs who refuse to study for a software engineering interview... and then fail miserably. But by and large, based on hundreds of individuals, I've found that quantitative PhDs can drop into many SWE roles and contribute- both mundane improvements to code quality, and massive improvements to the foundations of projects.
by illiac786 | 2025-06-24 00:17:01+00:00
No, that’s not planned obsolescence. Why would it become obsolete faster due to the lack of a phone jack?

Not delivering updates, that’s planned obsolescence.

I do agree however, that a jack is nice. Wired USB-C headphone do exist though, if you insist on wired.I am not an audiophile, wouldn’t that provide an even better sound quality potentially (digital to analog conversion happens later, not distortions due to cables for example)?
by mlyle | 2025-06-24 00:17:43+00:00
> because while those big generators can't move fast, demand can move fast! Which is a difficult problem to manage in baseload grids.

Don't forget rotational inertia. This gives the system a high-frequency response mode: it can resist sudden demand changes through stored kinetic energy, effectively acting as a low-pass filter with a fast dominant pole.

As you get a smaller share of generation with rotational inertia, you need a lot more buffering on short to medium timescales.

And, of course, it doesn't help for longer timescales that in many places renewable production slopes off in the late afternoon right when demand slopes upwards for cooling.
by Klwy | 2025-06-24 00:17:59+00:00
t’s a hybrid virtual pet game with both a desktop “home station” and a small portable device. Here’s how it works: - Your virtual pet lives on your desktop game station, think of it as their home. - When you place the portable device onto the station, your pet “jumps” into the handheld, ready to go on adventures with you in the real world. - The portable device uses geolocation, so as you visit different places (parks, malls etc.), your pet explores virtual environments that correspond to your real-world locations. And this will unlocks in-game items, environments, and sometimes rare events, such as like finding lost treasures, meeting new NPCs. - There will also be random events during outings: your pet might get sick, find a mysterious chest, or meet a new friend. - When you return home and reconnect the portable device to the station, your pet brings back all the treasures, collectibles, and experiences from your trip, unlocking new levels, decorations, or story content on the desktop game.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-24 00:18:29+00:00
Full disclosure:

I am just some rando on the internet and only share what I hope will help. In no way is the below a replacement for professional counseling.

> The problem is I know that I am completely addicted, but I cannot stop. I feel like I'm the alcoholic drinking a bottle of vodka a day. I have tried to give up many times but I just can't crack it.

My first recommendation is to try to not beat yourself up about this. No one knows how to hurt you more than yourself.

My second recommendation is to take small steps and allow yourself time for each new habit to become entrenched. For example, keep your phone in your pocket instead of visibly near. Once that feels natural, incorporate the next habit which you feel reduces the device's prominence in daily life.

> I have tried all kinds of blocking software and strategies. Blocking software, however elaborate, never seems to make a different.

As others have mentioned and you describe, using an app on the device to alter dependency on the device likely will not work as the device remains the focal point.

> This is a really tough nut to crack. I think there is probably no technological solution to it.

It is and I believe you are entirely correct in identifying "no technological solution to it." If we pursue this hypothesis to its logical conclusion, then one or more solutions must exist outside the technical space. Which suggests a solution might be found in the behavioral space as the two actors in this scenario are a person and a device.

I'm not saying this will be easy nor simple, only that I hope you find peace in finding your solution.