MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-07-21 18:39:21+00:00
The link isn't something people buying work pants would buy.

22oz Selvedge has its issues, and under heavy use would last 4 or 5 years given societal constraints (i.e. you don't walk around in stinky clothes multiple days in a row).

At ~$124 + tariff, we're looking at significantly more for a five year period or a comparable minimum of $40/yr replacement.

Comparable products can be found with a replacement every year for that price, often better than that price, if one knows where to look. Its not just the material that is important, its the aggregate of many factors.

Most people don't buy quality for quality's sake.

The value of quality is derived by the benefit to human action, at least in a functioning market where no money-lenders without reserve have caused havoc; and when compared against similar alternative opportunities.

You generally don't buy work pants and care about the country of origin insofar as the functional quality remains the same.

You care about the effective use, and the cost in exchange. Demand isn't need, its the subset of need, who have the money and are willing to make the exchange and buy this over other comparable products at a specific price.

Given alternatives all things being equal with regard to effective use during a period of time, demand goes to the lower priced item or inferior good which serves the need at the lowest cost. (https://austrianeconomics.substack.com/p/the-subjective-theo...)

You don't seem to understand how economics works. I can understand the increased labor requirements, and the love of a craft, but it needs to make economic sense when you talk about buyers and sellers. Anything else is just branding/hype/marketing meant to mislead from the underlying important factors.

> You just don't know how to buy jeans.

I do, and in doing so it must make real economic sense (rationally), not following blindly to the mistakes of Keynes and other misleading variants or factors.
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-07-21 18:39:25+00:00
It's interesting because I'm very ideological about politics in the UK. I have a burning hatred for the party that just left power after 14 years to the point that would make most zealots look positively tame. However I will concede that the UK has made pretty good progress on energy transition with a fairly broad base of support from most major parties and a lot of that transition happened under the party I detest.

While the UK faces some ongoing challenges:

- Transmission bottlenecks in Scotland

- Dwindling opportunities for offshore wind construction

- Natural gas for heating in an old and poorly insulated housing stock

- Electricity prices tied to gas prices

- A generation of NIMBYs who don't want wind turbines ruining their view of transmission pylons and ecologically dead sheep pastures

- Lack of zonal pricing to incentivize more on-shore renewables

And needs to go further and faster I don't think energy generation falls into the same ideological divide there (though this may change with Reform UK and their questionable funding/astroturfing). Certainly net zero and 'green crap' remains contentious but from an actual building-the-thing perspective we're just quietly getting on with it.
by caseysoftware | 2025-07-21 18:39:42+00:00
Is this a defense of the CIA? The first half of the article catalogs decades of failures ranging from comical to catastrophic.

"There was a time when the C.I.A.’s existential fear was of losing its adversary. In Al Qaeda, it found a new one; in Iraq, it created others. In Trump, it faces an adversary of a different kind."

Further, calling the Commander in Chief its "adversary" is terrible framing.. if they're working against the elected leadership of the US, who are they working FOR?
by megaman821 | 2025-07-21 18:40:01+00:00
The xAI datacenters do use batteries though. The batteries have advantages for providing a clean power supply and not tripping the grid when large workloads start or finish.

According to the article, 2 GW would require 8-10 Solar GW and 35-40 GWh of batteries to achieve high 90's availability. I would guess finding enough land close by might be a challenge.
by rangerelf | 2025-07-21 18:40:25+00:00
I'm still waiting for specifics.

I've been running Mint for ... longer than I care to remember, many years, and it's been flawless for me. I see windows users around me raging when it decides to just freeze, or has weird twitchy behavior, and I just keep on going.

And no, I don't spend hours upon hours tweaking and troubleshooting until it's "just right"; Mint convinced me because it was 99% "just right" out of the box.

Compared to when I used W10 and earlier, it's been sheer joy. It just stays out of the way and lets me do what I need to do.
by em-bee | 2025-07-21 18:40:34+00:00
every visa renewal is a time of extreme anxiety and stress for me. every time they ask for something new or find something wrong in the contract, or some regulation changed. you have to deal with staff who are sometimes unfriendly or impatient, and god forbid you miss a deadline or apply to early. it never feels like routine. my renewal times always seem to fall into the summer months when the kids have school holidays. at least once or twice our holiday travel plans were thwarted because of that.
by miohtama | 2025-07-21 18:40:40+00:00
What could go wrong?

The UK is the same country that arrests 12,000 people a year for posting online.

> Now every force in the country has a team sifting through people’s posts trying to determine what crosses an undefined threshold. “It is a complete nightmare,” one officer admits

Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police... From The Economist
by BuildTheRobots | 2025-07-21 18:40:55+00:00
A lot of people get panic attacks / claustrophobia and are incapable of getting in or staying still for a scan.

I have a lot of sympathy. I'm pretty good in confined spaces usually, but even after multiple MRIs it's still a surprisingly stressful experience. The buildup and safety questions make the pre-experience worrying. The aperture is surprisingly small. Depending on the scan, part of you might be caged in place, and it's extremely noisy and you're aware of a lot of mass and power spinning very close to your face.

Also, some of the radiologists don't help. It's not deliberate, but they're entirely desensitised to the experience (and often haven't actually gone through it themselves; which again seems crazy considering the lack of radiation). My last scan was of my lower back, but they were already set up (from the previous scan) to feed me in head first rather than feet first. From their point of view it saves a bit of faffing with the software and moving the pillow to the other end. From a patients point of view it makes all the difference in the world; it's a very different psychological experience having your legs inside with your head free, vs being stuck head first in something and having it whizz past next to your head.

I've had a goodly (read unhealthy) number of CT and MRI scans and I'm bright enough to understand which one is significantly more detrimental to my long term health. I'm also aware that on a subconscious almost cellular level, it's the benign one that absolutely terrifies me every time...
by fakedang | 2025-07-21 18:41:02+00:00
> When you grow a tomato, you use pesticides and herbicides.

And didn't they teach you at school to soak all vegetables for a couple hours in water after buying them and before storing/using them? As for injected hormones, in my part of the world (Asia and Europe), we reject such produce if we're trying to eat healthy. My family literally grows pineapples in our backyard (which I bring to Europe) because industrial pineapples are injected with ripening stimulators.

> When you grow meat, you use drugs on the animals and then you also wash the meat in bleach to kill bacteria.

In most of the civilized world, we typically ensure humane conditions as much as possible even in industrial farming, so that chicken need not be drugged and bleach washed. Like basic hygiene and humanity such as animals not being made to live in their own shit.

> Why are these chemicals less harmful than, say, citric acid used in "processed" minced garlic to preserve it?

Again, in most of the civilized world, we don't take issue with preserving minced garlic with citric acid. In fact, I regularly preserve a lot of veggies and sometimes even fruit this way. But I do have an issue when some industrial company decides to add sodium benzoate to their pickle to preserve it for months on end.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-21 18:41:08+00:00
Governors perform an executive function, and it's odd to describe "politician role" rather than just naming the role itself; governor for California, Minister or Minister-President for Bavaria.

"Representing" to an American ear sounds more like a legislative role, and from what I can find of Bavaria, that is also wrong, with Minister-President being an executive and head of state figure.
by pixl97 | 2025-07-21 18:41:19+00:00
I'm pretty sure you are very unfamiliar with how ads actually work.

The best advertising is word of mouth advertising and smart marketers seek out people of influence in their communities to spread their products. This was well known in marketing long before the term online influencer was a thing. It's very hard for most people to even notice this kind of advertisement is even happening.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-21 18:41:34+00:00
I think "doomed" is quite reasonable.

Fundamentally, that energy must go somewhere. You plunge in steeper and you get a higher peak but lower total, but no matter what you do it's an awful lot of heat that you have to keep away from the cargo. Belly flop is good for increasing drag, "works" quite well with Kerbals (just don't look at the core temperature of the capsule!), but Kerbin is an awful lot more forgiving about the fire than Earth is.

I had thought they would have considered the basic numbers long before now, but apparently they did not.

However, the booster seems to work. Scrap Starship, build an upsized version of the Falcon 9 upper stage and put it on top of the booster. Still better in the heavy lift department than anything out there.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-21 18:41:35+00:00
You don't. Disconnect from the grid completely. If you don't need the power company then disconnect from them.

The problem lies when you need the power company 'some of the time'.

The costs of the power company are in 2 parts. Generation and Distribution. Traditionally those costs were bundled together, those who used more paid more (for both generation and Distribution. )

If I generate my own solar, say 65% of the time, then I'm paying 65% less for generation (which is fair, I'm using 65% less) but I'm also paying 65% less for distribution (which is unfair because the cost of distribution is fixed, not variable. )

The power company can solve this by billing the two parts separately. Indeed in some places in the world utilities are formally splitting the two parts into different companies. Generation has variable cost depending on consumption- Distribution has fixed cost if you are connected at all.

Of course people without solar want this split (it fairly distributes Distribution), folks with solar want the old way to continue (less for me to pay, cost to everyone else goes up.)

Power companies are trying to change with the times, by separately billing. Some homeowners are the ones trying to straddle the best of both words, and effectively get "100% availability" for no cost.
by jasonephraim | 2025-07-21 18:42:26+00:00
Extensively, and the result is quite the opposite. This is land owned by the State Land Board and their mandate is essentially to utilize it for tax revenue.

If you are meaning the Reservoir, the superfund site, and/or the nearby landfill. We've pushed the related agencies (including the EPA) to enact protections surrounding the sites - the most we've gotten is stopping the wells being drilled directly-under them (but they can/will still go right up against).
by chubot | 2025-07-21 18:42:32+00:00
I think your body has natural mechanisms to mitigate that initial discomfort.

I am now sitting under a tree, after biking in 85 degree weather in July on the east coast. I’ve also biked in 90 and 95 degree weather.

And I don’t feel hot at all. Going outside might seem unpleasant, but once you’re out there, it’s not just fine, but refreshing

I don’t know exactly why, but it’s probably sweat, clothing, basic metabolism, and basic psychological facts (perception is often triggered by change)

Likewise, I bike in cold weather (all 12 months on the east coast). I think it is pretty established that this is both tolerable and healthy - ie it’s a mild version of the people who swim in freezing lakes in the dead of winter

And keep in mind I worked in an office my whole career, and have never competed in a single sporting event in my life (although I do like some sports)
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-21 18:42:47+00:00
I don't live in California and don't pay attention to what the Democrats there do. My response was about "net metering." Having to sell your solar power to the utility at the wholesale rate, not the retail rate, would seem fair to me, since you're only selling them power and not any of the other stuff that is necessary to deliver that power to anywhere else. If you don't like the price, don't sell the power, find something else to do with it or some other way to store it.
by coyotebob | 2025-07-21 18:42:47+00:00
I've been vegan since 2014. I rarely eat those plant-base burgers, but do on occasion. One of the brands changed formulations and now doesn't even taste like a burger any longer. I bought pre-grilled Beyond burgers and they the better of the two.. For me, burgers are a treat. Most of the time I eat beans, fruit and vegetables.
by fluidcruft | 2025-07-21 18:43:24+00:00
A gofundme setup by his step-daughter for funeral costs says he was stuck to the magnet for over one hour. Which if accurate seems like the timescale for ultimately being quenched but after a lot of indecision about punching the button. Probably they waited for EMS to arrive and be screened etc and they had to decide etc.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-21 18:44:06+00:00
> The peak and decline of US oil production is going to be one of the geopolitical stories of the next 25 years

people have been saying that since the 70s at least. The reason why no one is fracking is because oil/gs is so cheap it's not worth it. If the price rises enough the wells turn back on and everyone starts doing it again. Renewables, demand, and regional stability is keeping prices low so putting in the extra effort fracking requires just isn't worth the return. Google says the average break even price of a fracking well in the Permian Basin (SW Texas) is $65/barrel. And the price of oil as of this comment is $65.98 so that would mean a lot of wells are just sitting there because it's not worth the money to pump.
by eagsalazar2 | 2025-07-21 18:44:18+00:00
Very good article. However I think a huge factor is being ignored. The most pernicious side effect of falling prices isn't pullback in investment and construction. It's the immense leverage lender and builder lobbies will apply through decades of regulatory capture, and the massive outcry that will come from homeowners who have bought into the idea that real estate is a great way to build wealth. Anything that results in lower prices will result in damaging the wealth of millions, of the group of Americans that probably has 99% of the wealth and political power. Yeah that won't fly. And I agree the "correction" is overdue and those wealthy boomers whose wealth has doubled and tripled since retirement just by riding that wave (and the stock market, another ponzi scheme) should transfer some of that wealth back to the masses in the form of depreciation. But it won't happen. Not in America, not without something horrible happening to make them give up that wealth.
by ben_w | 2025-07-21 18:44:19+00:00
Other targets may be more appropriate, but:

> and their highly distributed and diverse nature actually makes them more difficult

Distributed doesn't make it harder, if/when there's a common failure mode. See e.g. this with the power grid which is obviously as distributed as any PV connected to it: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/could-hackers-use-n...
by russellbeattie | 2025-07-21 18:44:25+00:00
It's amusing - I still have a visceral negative reaction to XSLT. I can't help it. I spent a couple years down that rabbit hole before realizing what a dead end it all was. I wrote and used my own publishing system using a custom pipeline of transforms, and started down the path of making a UI using XML and dynamic XSLT templates and more. All with a backend of Java and Enterprise Java Beans.

The regret I feel about all this is palpable. I desperately want those hours and hours of coding back.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 18:44:34+00:00
> IF YOU HAVE ever relaxed with a cold Kingfisher beer at the end of a long, sweaty day in Mumbai, the party capital of India, you have almost certainly broken the law. Specifically, you violated section 40 of the Bombay Prohibition Act of 1949, under which you must hold a permit to drink booze. A first offence is punishable by a fine of 10,000 rupees ($115) and up to six months in prison.

Just in case it might pique your interest.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-21 18:44:48+00:00
> Solar and batteries are still more expensive than gas (as the article admits) but prices are continuing to decrease.

Exactly, gas is heavily subsidized and government supported in the US. And even with that support it only barely scrapes ahead. Courtesy of current and future tax payers coughing up the interest payments on the trillions of dollars in debt. That's not going to last indefinitely. The key point here is that the difference is a bit artificial.

In the rest of the world where installing solar is something like a third of the cost (no tariffs, less installation bureaucracy, less crippling rules and legislation, etc.) and where batteries can be imported closer to cost price from China, the picture is very different. If it's importing LNG vs. cheap solar panels + batteries, the latter is already very attractive in many places. Even at higher latitudes than the 49th parallel below which most of the US is.

And it's on track to get a lot better. Production for sodium ion batteries is starting to come online in China. It will be a while before those make it to the US due to the politics. But some are now projecting cost as low as 10$/kwh for those mid term. 1 mwh battery would cost about 10K$ at those prices. And they have quite long lives (thousands of charge cycles). You can run a house on one of those for well over a month in the US. Much longer in places where houses are better insulated and more efficient. It will be a few years before we can get these obviously. But it's a nice mental model for what a reasonably affordable battery will be able to do soon.
by supernova87a | 2025-07-21 18:45:32+00:00
Is the incorrectly shared mail piece addressed to someone with a quite similar address, or potentially someone who previously lived there?

Just having thought once in a while about how complicated addresses are, I can only imagine all the things that can go wrong. (both for the post office, and for example, credit cards/banks that have to use addresses in validation of purchases, etc)

Imagine an apartment building with many units. Think of how people differently specify on the address lines which unit they live in? What if they leave off their unit #? What about apartments that are numbered "345 1/2 Second Street"?

What about a new person with the same last name that appears at an address? What do you do about that? Is an address that differs by a very subtle letter a different household? E.g. "345b Second Street"? Should you ship a package there or approve a credit card, or is that likely to be an attempt to fraudulently divert mail to someone else who is nonexistent?

I'm sure it's endlessly complicated, and I have no idea. But I know it will be complicated.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-21 18:45:40+00:00
This should be impossible in any setup with even 15 minutes of thinking through the what-ifs and cheap mitigations. I have to think this is sensationalized on purpose for the attention.

Although given the state of AI hype some executives will see this as evidence they are behind the times and mandate attaching LLMs to even more live services.
by Glyptodon | 2025-07-21 18:45:47+00:00
You seem to be ignoring that once land values reach some kind of floor it will be entirely sensible to build houses. Land values going up leads to FOMO, and going down leads to the reverse of FOMO, IE fear that the bottom hasn't been reached.

Clearly it is correct to short, but short positions expire - they are definitionally short term.

That said, the behavior is pretty expected: the current operators are operating on in inflated land value cost because the market has become distorted due to lack of supply. Altering the market by injecting supply will drive down land value and cause operators with money stuck at the current equilibrium to lose money or fail. But it poses no issue to operation or new entrants at the new market equilibrium. If it operates like a market should operators should be happy to begin providing houses on land at the new equilibrium as soon as it's reached. However fear of not knowing when it's been reached will mean that it does to take time settle.
by sigio | 2025-07-21 18:46:36+00:00
(Edit: I think the story below was for the original Playstation, with it's action-replay expansion port module. Should still have it somewhere in storage )

I also remember it having a serial or parallel port (at least the european Action Replay did), which you could hook upto a PC and with some debugging-software, do things like runtime memory manipulation, breakpoints and other nice debugging tools.

I think you could even run your own (small) binaries by sending them to the cartridge/addon, but this was ~20+ years ago, so the details lack me.
by fakedang | 2025-07-21 18:47:56+00:00
Are you seriously comparing something used to trigger an infrequent immune response vs something that we take in on a daily basis to run our bodies? The latter being things that are transformed and transported to every part of the body.

> This is like saying "the main chemical in vaccines is just one atom from bleach!"

No, a better equivalent would be injecting a single PFAS atom in your drinking water. You don't know where it's going to end up, but you do know that it's going to cause some issues wherever it goes if accumulated in quantity.

> The main chemical in vaccines being water: H2O -> H2O2; and the processes humans have been using for millennia to alter protein structures being "cooking", "mixing it with alcohol or vinegar", or "adding lots of salt".

Equating Beyond's process to cooking is such a disservice when they literally state they use heat and pressure to alter protein structures in globular plant molecules to transform them into stuff resembling fibrous animal molecules.

https://youtu.be/uTHCqjIspKU?si=pFqoQOuGbIPNnJox

Around the 1:30 mark.