MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exiguus | 2025-07-11 20:55:52+00:00
Thats actually not that wrong, because there were contracts between Russia and germany for over then years, where Russia offered very cheap gas for the German industry (Nord-Stream I and II was build for that).

But beside this, Germany was leading in the anti-nuclear movement, and finally shut down there last nuclear power plant two years ago. Currently, in Germany, renewable energy sources [1] are around 75% in the summer and and 55% in the winter month. Renewable are growing fast [2].

[1] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart....

[2] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/remod_installed_power_...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-11 20:56:30+00:00
Yes, the case was appealed to the Supreme Court who chose to hear it instead of choosing not to hear it. That is ultimately why they ruled on the case.

Given that, it really does seem that the court ruled 6-3 in favor of the plaintiffs who are trying to draw a line around gay couples because the court is trying to draw a line around gay couples.
by felarof | 2025-07-11 20:56:46+00:00
Yeah, decided to change the name to avoid any troubles. Also, previous name was hard to pronounce :)

Thank you for the feedback. Would love to chat more on discord (https://discord.gg/YKwjt5vuKr) and help you with your use-cases! we are shipping daily and improving things fast, agent should get much better in a few days.

> There's a Chrome extension that lets you use your iCloud passwords in Chrome and it doesn't work

Will check it out! We definitely want to make onboarding and password mgmt much easier!
by acaloiar | 2025-07-11 20:56:51+00:00
Facebook is able to realize outsize cross-web tracking benefits by having you logged in as long as possible. Few other companies are able to realize comparable benefits because they don't have the same ad-serving aspirations coupled with "Login with Facebook" reach.

Google is comparable, but it's too risky for them to have so many magic links hanging around in customer inboxes, because Google identities tend to be tied to far more sensitive 3rd party applications. Which is not to say that there are no sensitive applications with "Login with Facebook", but I'll argue there are fewer.
by superkuh | 2025-07-11 20:57:28+00:00
I have tried to keep the Psyonix wikipedia article true to reality if you look at the change history but there are people working for Epic heavily whitewashing it and I didn't want to force (wiki) arbitration or cause a disturbance after the first couple edit/revert battles. The Rocket League one is even harder to keep true.

Basically, they said they were stealing the Mac and Linux Rocket League versions because they wanted to go full directx 10 instead of 9. But the fact that the PS3 is still a first class client running Directx 9 even today shows this is/was a lie. Epic lies quite a bit. In fact when they bought Psyonix they loudly announced there would be no changes, it'd stay rocket league. But of course that lie only lasted 6 months. And now they re-write the wiki pages to pretend it was always the plan.

Anyway, I didn't want a refund. I wanted to keep playing rocket league. And now I cannot play. That's wrong. They bricked my game. And everyone thinks that's A-OK. Just like when they'll brick your modem, or your fridge, or maybe your car. Frankly, having any software in a $thing is a huge risk these days given the status quo.
by cout | 2025-07-11 20:57:45+00:00
As a counter-point, I was able to write lyrics with chatgpt (lots of back-and forth to get the right "feel"), then put those words to music with suno. It took two hours of my time, and my wife definitely had an emotional response to what was produced. There was definitely a human aspect to what the AI produced; it was personal and personalized, and it brought us closer. So AI can strip us of our personhood (especially through false intimacies), but used wisely it can also be a tool to reach parts of our humanity that otherwise might never be touched.
by vincent-manis | 2025-07-11 20:58:17+00:00
I don't do web stuff at all, but I really enjoyed this article. I am convinced that software engineers (not to mention others) have thrown the baby out with the bathwater in our brave new world of 32GB memories and fibre-optics. By all means the generous hardware capabilities let us do amazing things, like have a video library, or run massive climate computations, but mostly those resources are piddled away in giant libraries that provide little or no actual functional value.

I don't really pine for the days of the PDP-8, when programmers had to make sure that almost every routine took fewer than 128 words, or the days of System/360, when you had to decide whether the fastest way to clear a register was to subtract it from itself or exclusive-or it with itself. We wasted a lot of time trying to get around stringent limitations of the technology just to do anything at all.

I just looked at the Activity Monitor on my Macbook. Emacs is using 115MB, Thunderbird is at 900MB, Chrome is at something like 2GB (I lost track of all the Renderer processes), and a Freecell game is using 164MB. Freecell, which ran just fine on Windows 95 in 8MB!

I'm quite happy with a video game taking a few gigabytes of memory, with all the art and sound assets it wants to keep loaded. But I really wonder whether we've lost something by not making more of an effort to use resources more frugally.
by varispeed | 2025-07-11 20:58:29+00:00
The propaganda that was manufactured by the government around this was particularly clever. Most people believe the captive labour market that has been created was for the benefit of the tax payer - see the downvotes and no comments - and reject the idea that it is actually the opposite and only benefactors are big corporations. The idea that subsequent governments could be so corrupt, doesn't compute.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-11 20:58:48+00:00
Yeah, let's cut back on the relatively small investments in science that actually grow the economy, particularly at a moment in time when our geopolitical competitors are making enormous investments, and when leadership and talent in science is more important than ever.

Just walk around the Boston area and look at how much of the economy is driven by federal research funding attracting global talent to universities, which then generates ideas and the next generation of talent, which feeds the biotech companies, which grow the economy.

Letting all of that happen in China instead of the US just to make a tiny dent in the deficit (and to punish progressive institutions and prevent cultural change from immigration) is unbelievably fucking stupid.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-11 20:59:03+00:00
Yes, of course, it has SSG and ISR as well, but then you are overall better off with something else like a VitePress for fully static, React + Vite if you still want React and build a static app, or use Astro.js if you need some client side reactivity.

Next.js is a lot of marketing for a terrible product.
by jlhawn | 2025-07-11 20:59:56+00:00
I found some more to nitpick, from the section on "LVT implicitly taxes improvements on nearby land":

> For instance, if a developer owns multiple adjacent parcels and decides to build housing or infrastructure on one of them, the value of the undeveloped parcels will rise due to their proximity to the improvements. As a result, the developer faces higher taxes on the remaining undeveloped land, making development less financially appealing in the first place.

This analysis misses the point. It doesn't make development less financially appealing, it makes owning land you're not planning on using any time soon less appealing. It disrupts (in a good way) the current land development model where one entity buys a large tract of land and develops and sells it off one piece at a time. That's a model based on land speculation. They may see it as the development of the first 20% of land increases the value of the remaining 80% (which they feel justified in profiting from) but that is neither guaranteed nor is it an accurate description of what causes the remaining 80% of land to increase in value. It's more accurate to say that the agglomeration effects of the people who moved into that first 20% (and their interaction with the existing local economy) are more responsible for it.
by niemandhier | 2025-07-11 21:00:27+00:00
I wonder if ai will change this for a reason different from what everybody expects:

It’s very easy now to port your infra from on hyperscaler to the other or to set up many of those services these scalers provide out of the box.

Writing terraform, cloudinit, argo cd etc is a breath with the help of Claude.

I could do al these things before, but now I can do them extremely fast and semiauto document what is build.
by aydyn | 2025-07-11 21:00:32+00:00
> reasonable

Thats not the adjective I used.

> 2 people who tell you the same thing

An appeal to the authority of two people with the same ideology and biases is not a convincing argument.

> That said, the incivility started when you cited an out of context[sic] quote,

>> Flatly untrue

>>> Of course! It stands to reason that 2 people who tell you the same thing, one a 3rd-party observer, must both be wrong if you disagree with them, obviously.

For clarification (since you seem to need it a lot) I am responding to your claim that incivility started with me. That is flatly untrue, obviously.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-11 21:01:14+00:00
>That's why vendors don't offer seed parameters accompanied by a promise that it will result in deterministic results - because that's a promise they cannot keep.

They absolutely can keep such a promise, which anyone who has worked with LLMs could confirm. I can run a sequence of tokens through a large LLMs thousands of times and get identical results every time (and have done precisely this! In fact, in one situation it was a QA test I built). I could run it millions of times and get exactly the same final layer every single time.

They don't want to keep such a promise because it limits flexibility and optimizations available when doing things at a very large scale. This is not an LLM thing, and saying "LLMs are non-deterministic" is simply wrong, even if you can find an LLM purveyor who decided to make choices where they no longer have any interest in such an outcome. And FWIW, non-associative floating point arithmetic is usually not the reason.

It's like claiming that a chef cannot do something that McDonalds and Burger King don't do, using those purveyors as an example of what is possible when cooking. Nothing works like that.
Who's Hiring: Curated Jobs by Category and Location – Updated Daily
by jobswithgptcom | 2025-07-11 21:01:17+00:00
Hey HN, As a recent experiment on my side project, I am playing with automatic categorization of open job postings and updated daily. Kind of inspired by Who's hiring page.. See the following links that might be interesting to community here.

https://jobswithgpt.com/jobs/by-category/machine-learning-and-ai-engineering-jobs/ https://jobswithgpt.com/jobs/by-category/backend-software-engineering-jobs/ https://jobswithgpt.com/jobs/by-category/frontend-software-engineering-jobs/
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-11 21:01:46+00:00
I think the problem with this argument is that this is rarely the case.

99% of the time (including incident) they are not requiring an account for your toaster, or lightbulbs or your washing machine ceasing to function when your wifi goes off.

The issue is that you have a washing machine that you bought with a feature that you can watch the inside of the machine while it's running over wifi from anywhere in the world. Then the company "kills" their cloud features (like Belkin is doing wiht Wemo cloud features) and you no longer can watch your 4k stream of the washer working. Not even locally, not remotely, nothing. It's a feature you paid for, and 2 or 3 years down the line it's gone.

Some times the whole functionality of a device is a cloud connectivity, like a bridge or something, or a device that has 0 physical controls (for some design or ascetic reason) then yeah. Those devices would "cease to function"

Aside from really really maliciously designed products, most "smart" products I know of function perfectly fine as their dumb counter parts. The vast shocking majority of smart lights, smart switches, smart outlets, smart locks, and smart toasters I have seen all work as regular "dumb" version. But that's not why you paid the extra $40-$200 on it. Like a regular LED lightbulb is $4 and a Lifx wifi one is $30. It works fine as a regular lightbulb, you never need to do anything to it and you'd never know it has wifi in it.
by andrepd | 2025-07-11 21:01:51+00:00
> As I often point out to teams I’m working with, the original 1993 release of DOOM weighed in at under 3MB, while today we routinely ship tens of megabytes of JavaScript just to render a login form. Perhaps we can rediscover the power of constraints, not because we have to, but because the results are better when we do.

Emphasis mine, and tying with how it opened with the story about the designer who believed accessibility and "good design" are at odds (I'm screaming inside).
Ask HN: Persisting LLM token streams through a page refresh?
by spruce_tips | 2025-07-11 21:02:14+00:00
Like many of you, I'm streaming responses token by token from LLMs using server sent events (SSEs). What's the best way to maintain the SSE connection through a page refresh?

I haven't seen a lot of documentation or examples covering this. In most LLM enabled apps I've used, if tokens are currently streaming and the page refreshes/changes, the stream gets interrupted.

One idea I had was writing the streamed tokens into some sort of queue or kafka topic, then connecting my UI to the queue and streaming tokens from there instead. But that seems like a lot of work.

How are most folks doing this?
by athenot | 2025-07-11 21:03:57+00:00
June and July have the most amount of sunlight so that makes sense. The numbers look a bit different in December.

Still, diversity of energy production is a good thing. There's no one silver bullet. Solar + Wind + Nuclear + Fossil + Hydro all have their pros and cons.

In particular, during hot and dry months, Solar will shine while Hydro will be a trickle of power (no pun intended), also affecting Nuclear and Fossil power plants near rivers.
by gpm | 2025-07-11 21:04:01+00:00
The other thing the report isn't saying is that those numbers improve a lot if you have power transmission or other forms of power generation (say wind). They're calculating things as if you're a datacenter in a single location trying to yourself without any grid connection.

A small amount of other power generation whose output isn't correlated with the sun overhead should do a lot to make the last few percent (which come up when there's many cloudy days in a row) cheaper.

Solar's just knocking it out of the park at this point. Building out anything else new (as in you haven't already started) doesn't really make sense.
by LargeWu | 2025-07-11 21:04:15+00:00
The author's assertion was that LVT disincentivizes one from using the land productively, and used oil specifically as an example. This example is basically completely divorced from the realities of oil extraction. Nevermind that nobody is building wells in the middle of cities, where LVT matters.

So, that argument seems to rely on a contrived, unrealistic example. I can't see how LVT disincentivizes productive use of lands.
by iLemming | 2025-07-11 21:04:19+00:00
> you get labeled a noob

No one would call one a noob for not using Vim or Emacs. But they might for a different reason.

If someone blindly rejects even the notion of these tools without attempting to understand the underlying ideas behind them, that certainly suggests the dilettante nature of the person making the argument.

The idea of vim-motions is a beautiful, elegant, pragmatic model. Thinking that it is somehow outdated is a misapprehension. It is timeless just like musical notation - similarly it provides compositional grammar and universal language, and leads to developing muscle memory; and just like it, it can be intimidating but rewarding.

Emacs is grounded on another amazing idea - one of the greatest ideas in computer science, the idea of Lisp. And Lisp is just as everlasting, like math notation or molecular formulas — it has rigid structural rules and uniform syntax, there's compositional clarity, meta-reasoning and universal readability.

These tools remain in use today despite the abundance of "brand new technology" because time and again these concepts have proven to be highly practical. Nothing prevents vim from being integrated into new tools, and the flexibility of Lisp allows for seamless integration of new tools within the old-school engine.
by giingyui | 2025-07-11 21:05:01+00:00
> “We found that a small number of iPhone 6S devices made in September and October 2015 contained a battery component that was exposed to controlled ambient air longer than it should have been before being assembled into battery packs. As a result, these batteries degrade faster than a normal battery and cause unexpected shutdowns to occur. It’s important to note, this is not a safety issue.”

Seems a defect to me.
by 59nadir | 2025-07-11 21:05:04+00:00
20x0.1 is still just 2. You don't know what calrain's productivity without AI assistance is actually like. "20x" might just be correct, but it doesn't have to be 20x what you do.

(I don't think it's 20x, it's most likely hyperbole. People aren't that unique and it's not hard to see that people who use LLMs are often lulled into thinking they're more valuable to them than they actually are, especially when they "do more", i.e. they're a magic little person program that seems to do tasks on their own as opposed to glorified auto-complete that probably by raw numbers is actually more productive.)
by Aloisius | 2025-07-11 21:05:11+00:00
No. It is most definitely illegal here. It would violate Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 42 U.S. Code § 2000a:

>(a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

Restaurants are considered public accommodation under 42 U.S. Code § 2000a (b)(2).

Could a business lie about why they're discriminating? Yes, but that wouldn't be possible with a sign saying "No foreigners" and eventually, someone will file a title II complaint.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 21:05:46+00:00
We're talking about devices capable of >2GB/s throughput, and acquiring footage <.5GB/s. No caching issues, but I'm not buying el cheapo SSDs either. These are all rated and approved by camera makers. It wasn't brought up because it's not an issue. For people that are wondering why camera makers approve or not particular recording media, this is part of the answer. But nobody was asking that particular question and instead the reply tried to rain on my parade.
by tartoran | 2025-07-11 21:06:18+00:00
> But there’s a lot of engineering being done out there that people don’t even know exists, and that has to be done by people who know exactly what they’re doing, not just weekend warriors shouting stuff at an LLM.

Except that the expectation of them is going to be higher and higher possibly with a downward pressure on compensation. I guess it'll find equilibrium somewhere eventually.
by jfengel | 2025-07-11 21:06:22+00:00
I'm afraid I don't really buy that. The court didn't have to seek out this procedural issue. The rules are complex enough to justify any decision you wish. They simply decided by fiat that this case was worth more than $100 million, and overruled the subject matter experts.

It appears that they make their decision, and then justify it. That may not actually be the case -- but if it isn't, the outcome is indistinguishable.

It's true that they're not always favoring the President. But he is increasingly concentrating his power, and it favors him more and more.
by luckylion | 2025-07-11 21:06:27+00:00
Yeah, while I liked the pixel 4a, I just upgraded to a 7a because of this nonsense (thankfully I did not go with a 6a!) If they come for the 7a next year, I won't choose a pixel again either.

Sure, I could send it in for a battery replacement. and not have a phone for a week or two, and get my phone back or maybe not.
by exiguus | 2025-07-11 21:07:20+00:00
The transformation paths for Germany show, that they want to dismiss fossil energy sources until 2035. In Germany renewable energy share is around 70%. Last nuclear-power plant was shut down 2023.

[1] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/remod_installed_power_...

[2] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart....
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-11 21:07:29+00:00
(I'm critical of LLMs but mean no harm with this question) Have you measured if this workflow is actually faster or better at all? I have tried the autocomplete stuff, chat interface (copy snippets + give context and then copy back to editor) and aider, but none of these have given me better speed than just a search engine and the occasional question to ChatGPT when it gets really cryptic.
by comprev | 2025-07-11 21:08:14+00:00
From my experience living most of my life in the UK from birth there is an element of truth to class being immutable - being directly linked to money and the status of property ownership - for now anyway.

The Thatcher years created an opportunity for working class (who traditionally lived in rent controlled properties due to low income) to purchase their houses for pennies on the dollar.

Suddenly, millions of families felt they had moved up a class. They were no longer at the mercy of landlords and had moved up in society from a tenant to an owner.

The traditional three tiers of lower, middle and upper class changed to lower, lower-middle, upper-middle and upper.

From my observations the lower-middle class are still adjusting not to having money but rather _access_ to money previously denied. Having equity in a property as a guarantee of a loan opens up a world previously off limits by the banks.

A bit like when someone turns 18 and they have access to credit cards - lots of cash easily available!

I come from a family where (with the exception of a mortgage), if you can't pay for something in cash (and still have plenty in reserve), you can't afford it. My folks were very proud of raising a family with zero debts (minus the mortgage), and I'm forever thankful.

The families I knew (and by extension others living on the typical "cookie cutter" UK housing estate) were swimming in debt. What surprised me the most was how "normal" it was - 3yr (or less) car on the drive; massive flatscreen TVs (in 2007); multiple cruise holidays per year; flying off to a warm destination mid-winter.

Many of them said when they were younger they never experienced such things and told stories of growing up in near poverty. Going into debt for holidays and having a new car on the drive was normalised.

These were nurses, postmen, truck drivers, retail staff, hospitality etc. all traditional working class jobs with low salary expectations.

They were trying desperately to _appear_ like they were middle class at whatever cost.

I'm of the belief it will still take a few generations before the wave of lower-middle class learn that it's not about having a new car on the drive but rather having that cash in the bank as savings - and a significantly cheaper (& older) car on the drive.

And yet the UK school system doesn't teach pupils about sensible financial matters - we all rely on our parents to guide us - so escaping the "buy it now on credit" mentality will be easier said that done!