MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-27 10:49:25+00:00
Which is weird, because there's precedent for companies owning water rights. The step to owning wind rigths doesn't feel that far.

I'm wondering if the current governmental backlash to wind is just a prelude to getting "wind rights" of vast geographical areas sold to some properly bribing oil corporation.

Then the company can totally control the transition from oil to wind in such a fashion as to extract maximum revenue without having to care about any external competition.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-08-27 10:50:10+00:00
We don't need both. We actually just need nuclear, and no amount of throwing away my tax money on wind boondoggles will change that. The Norwegian Labour Party royally screwed the Norwegians with wind, they had to make all other energy much more expensive to make wind feasible, and wind is still not feasible, everything else is just ungodly expensive with 5% monthly inflation on food.
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 10:50:37+00:00
> Have you looked at the government subsidies for nuclear in the UK and the massive lifetime cost? In terms of offshore wind - initially it was subsidized to get it up and running - but now it's established those have dropped and dropped.

I said I don't know. I said had heard the argument and these are examples of better arguments against wind IMO if they are true.

I don't know what to believe. I am dubious of any reporting on these issues.

> Sure - but no-one is claiming 100% wind is the target - total strawman argument. The UK goverments own net zero plan actually still includes gas generation!

Neither are they claiming wind is 100% the target.

> One of the more bonkers arguments in the UK was when there was a massive fossil fuel price shock a couple of years ago due to wars and rising global demand - the fossil fuel lobby blamed rewnewables for the high prices!

I don't remember this. I am sure people will point the finger elsewhere rather than themselves.

I blame the high prices on fuel duty and taxes. Fuel Duty is 52.95 pence per litre and then you have to add VAT. The current diesel price is ~£1.40 per litre at the local Tesco filling station. So that is ~50% of the cost if I am understanding this correctly.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/fuel-duty
by qwertox | 2025-08-27 10:51:12+00:00
A country can commit to 300 years of wind energy, temporarily harming a bit of nature.

Once a better solution has been found, the land can be freed for the nature to take over again.

We have no issues with stealing a couple of square miles of nature in order to pave it for our cities or to use it for farming.

Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal: production of the turbines, used area and generated noise, minimal pollution of the area, the troubles of recycling them. That's mostly it.

You don't have this with oil, nor with current-age nuclear.

Also, we've already accepted the noise of cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes.

So I really don't get what they are protesting about, specially in Germany.
by emsign | 2025-08-27 10:52:03+00:00
Doesn't change the fact that DOGE are criminal scumbags with root access who did illegal things nobody should ever do. It doesn't matter at all if SSNs were replaced by something decent when young naive and impressionable scumbags with root access and no morals whatsoever will simply steal the data anyway. Quite the contrary even, secure SSN as data loot is even more valuable to the thieves.
by jajko | 2025-08-27 10:52:36+00:00
Yeah folks judge Chinese output by 1$ usb cables, ignoring how ie DJI came to the market and ate everybody's lunch including US companies like gopro who basically had to cancel whole drone product pipeline overnight, thats how badly behind they were.

When I picked up my DJI drone many years ago the amount of polish was top notch - hardware worked flawlessly, software was fast and without any glitch. I was looking for any signs like 'designed in Germany' or similar but nope, all Chinese.

People think about 3rd world countries and somehow end up thinking about the very definition of permanent incompetence - russia and its satellites. Like they still put chips from stolen wash machines into their ballistic missiles. When China is in comparison more like a humiliated, smart, deeply focused, hard working, ignoring some pesky human rights group of people who grokked well they don't need to bow to any foreign powers anymore if they focus and work hard on specific goals.
by endymion-light | 2025-08-27 10:52:44+00:00
Yep - this is what I mean, if enough people begin using AI tools to attempt to circumvent it, it won't be long until the sites themselves become even worse.

The reason why I find AI tools useful currently is that the enshittification has not fully caught up, it's harder for advertisers to spam SEO & pay to have their results promoted within a LLM.

I have no hope that this will remain, it's a transcient wild west phase still, and I imagine in the next few years we'll begin seeing advertising hidden within chatbots as integration increases.

So it's turtles all the way down. Google search used to be good.
by brazzy | 2025-08-27 10:52:48+00:00
> there is arguably a root assumption in both cases that people made, which is that "the software can't be wrong"

I think in this case, the thought process was based on the experience with older, electro-mechanical machines where the most common failure modern was parts wearing out.

Since software can, indeed, not "wear out", someone made the assumption that it was therefore inherently more reliable.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-27 10:53:51+00:00
> This way, the monopoly created by the US tech companies will disappear on its own

I mean no disrespect, but has this ever happened without regulation? Like, the ONLY reason that Google/Facebook took off was that Microsoft were slammed with antitrust suits in both the EU and US. Absent that, they'd have been absorbed by the mothership.

But apparently regulation is bad, which is why we basically have an oligopoly in tech now which is good because ???.

Like, I spent half a decade working on advertising at Big Tech, and there were basically nowhere I could go to continue working on that when I left. My only options became TikTok which didn't make sense to me as I assumed they'd never be able to IPO in the US (correctly, as it turned out).

This is not the sign of a healthy market, and long-term its really bad for society.
by varjag | 2025-08-27 10:54:25+00:00
My takeaway from observing different teams over years is the talent by a huge margin is the most important component. Throw a team of A performers together and it really doesn't matter what process you make them jump through. This is how a waterfall team got the mankind to the Moon with handwoven core memory but an agile team 10x the size can't fix the software for a family car.
by endymion-light | 2025-08-27 10:54:39+00:00
I've experienced this partially, as someone who never uses sheets etc - the capability to create a template that achieves my exact needs within a few seconds is really strong - i can then form malleability in where I want.

But quite honestly, the SaaS world is also due a culling - i'd argue if the software you work on as a SaaS business is replaceable by a malleable piece of AI software, you're closer to Pets.Com than a suitable business model.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-27 10:55:05+00:00
Nobody, of course.

It would be nice if oil, gas, electricity and auto companies did in fact fund people like me to point out all the things climate activists say that aren't true. Pointing out misinformation is valuable on its own, and getting paid to do it would be a double benefit - getting paid to make the world better! I would thus accept that money happily.

Unfortunately they don't. Only the left do that. So people who investigate and reveal climate lobbying misinformation tend to be retirees. They can afford the time to do it as a form of charity work.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 10:55:37+00:00
>the prosecution has unlimited funds and resources?

Nope. One needs to take the system in total.

"Since New York State’s 2019 discovery reforms were passed, dismissals in cases involving domestic violence rose 26 percent in New York City. In 2023, about 94 percent of cases were dismissed in New York City and nearly 50 percent were dismissed outside of New York City. In many cases, automatic dismissal of cases has put survivors of domestic violence and other crimes at greater risk."

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-and-state-o...

This increase is a direct result of passing 2019 "discovery reforms" designed to safeguard the rights of the accused. Read the list of examples on the page I linked and tell me that prosecutors in NYC have "unlimited resources".

It's a constant balancing act.

And BTW:

"Public defender jobs in many places are intensely competitive. Many of us went to law school specifically to become public defenders and have zero interest in working for a big firm. I had a merit scholarship to a top 20 law school and only applied to public defender jobs."

https://xcancel.com/kit_sionn_witch/status/17749841523596168...
by joegibbs | 2025-08-27 10:56:43+00:00
Has there really ever been such a thing as a benevolent country? I think it only exists in subjective histories depending on who wins.

For instance the Romans are thought of as a great, cultured civilisation because their histories won out, but the Gauls and Carthaginians would’ve disagreed.

Like Lord Palmerston said, countries don’t have friends v or enemies, only interests. Russia and China get along well now, definitely didn’t 50 and 150 years ago, but did in intervening periods. Yet they would both consider themselves as in the right regardless.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-27 10:57:16+00:00
It's fairly rare that there is no wind at all, especially at wind turbine height, and if you have 100 different wind farms spread out across different regions you'll usually have a decent amount of them producing at any given moment. We can also use batteries of various kinds to handle peaks and valleys, not to mention solar, hydro, nuclear and some gas to pick up slack when necessary.

I don't think anyone is expecting wind farms to supply anywhere near 100% of energy production. Probably not even 50%.
by throwaway0261 | 2025-08-27 10:57:33+00:00
One of the comments said this:

> That standard [IEC 62304] is surrounded by other technical reports and guidances recognized by the FDA, on software risk management, safety cases, software validation. And I can tell you that the FDA is very picky, when they review your software design and testing documentation. For the first version and for every design change.

> That’s good news for all of us. An adverse event like the Therac 25 is very unlikely today.

This is a case where regulation is a good thing. Unfortunately I see a trend lately where almost any regulation is seen as something stopping innovation and business growth. There are room for improvements and some areas are over regulated, but we don't want a "DOGE" chainsaw to regulations without knowing what the consequences are.
by dijit | 2025-08-27 10:57:59+00:00
In Sweden we use BankID (there is a similar service with the same name in each Scandinavian country).

It's impossibly convenient to be perfectly fair with you, however I know that my bank has stopped issuing the "BankID Card" (which was a card and pin device that allowed you to generate challenge numbers)- and now forces you to use the BankID app -- which will not run on rooted phones of course.

It's even slightly worse as the App requires NFC; so I can't keep a backup on my iPad (which is what I was doing before).
by rcxdude | 2025-08-27 10:58:04+00:00
This only works with enough good developers involved in the process. I've seen how the sausage is made, and code quality is often shockingly low in these applications, just in ways that don't set off the metrics (or they do, but they can bend the process to wave them away). Also, the process often makes it very hard to fix latent problems in the software, so it rarely gets better over time, either.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-27 10:58:06+00:00
You are stating exactly the problem.

A well written scientific book would never leave a reader in a state of “maybe”.

Also, if the numbers go down to 0.2% I can’t help but notice that this can’t be defined as a disorder. It is a statistical error.

There is a placebo effect. Furthermore any doctor knows the rule of self-diagnosis. “Any patient, given a chance, will self-diagnose anything”.

With no data on how the data about illness was obtained I can’t say if this is a statistical error or a fluke.

Also, as noted above, should there be a method of testing for such a condition that is objective, I would live with 2% or 0.2%. (For example, 0.001% of people are missing this and this chromosome, and we know that because we can do a DNA test.) But there is no way of saying something like this just cause you did a survey and ask people some vague questions about their mental state. There are people who would just fake answers in their responses for fun. And just cause of that I don’t trust numbers like 2% in this specific case.
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-27 10:58:33+00:00
Yes and no.

Malleability is opposed to institution. When everything is hyper malleable everybody will need to be trained and change management will take up a large proportion of time.

The main reason why a lot of people go with Jira is not quality of the software - but the institutional buy-in. Employees, current and prospect, know how to work with the tool.

The greater change is likely labor disruption.
by account42 | 2025-08-27 10:59:05+00:00
amdgpu replaced both the in-kernel open-source "radeon" driver, which was already open source, and the proprietary "fglrx" driver.

But the user-space portions are probably more significant for performance than the kernel drivers. Here we have:

- r300 and r600 (open source OpenGL backend for older hardware, sits on top of the radeon kernel driver, not much development happening)

- radeonsi (open source OpenGL backend for newer hardware, sits on top of either the radeon or amdgpu kernel drivers depending on hardware version and kernel configuration)

- fglrx (closed source OpenGL driver on top of the fglrx kernel driver, both obsolete now)

- radv (open source Vulkan driver on top of amdgpu)

- amgpu-pro (closed source Vulkan driver on top of amdgpu) - not sure if there is also still a proprietary OpenGL driver but if there is no one should care since radeonsi works well enough

- amdvlk (open source dumps of amdgpu-pro without proprietary shader compiler on top of amdgpu)

Then you have different shader compilers which also significantly affect both shader compile time and runtime performance:

- internal compiler used by r600

- LLVM (used by radeonsi and amdvlk)

- ACO (used by radv and possibly radeonsi these days)

- AMD's proprietary compiler (used by fglrx and amdgpu-pro)

And for X.org you also have different display drivers (fglrx, radeon, modesetting).
by throw0101c | 2025-08-27 10:59:16+00:00
From a recent dissent (p. 17):

> In a broader sense, however, today’s ruling is of a piece with this Court’s recent tendencies. “[R]ight when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints,” the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and preventing manifestly injurious Government action as difficult as possible. This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.[6] We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.

* https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf
Show HN: Autofill forms with mock data for testing
by shadabshs | 2025-08-27 10:59:26+00:00
I got tired of typing the same names, emails, and phone numbers again and again while building/testing forms — usually ending up with gibberish.

So I built MockFill, a Chrome extension that auto-detects input fields and lets you autofill realistic mock data in one click (single field or entire form).

It’s free, works locally, and doesn’t collect any data.

Would love feedback from the HN community
by adithyassekhar | 2025-08-27 11:00:53+00:00
I admit that was definitely tongue in cheek. But brave is on the front page. Maybe they're better.

I would like to keep my data from bad actors with illegal ops or malware, but willing to sacrifice some to a legitimate corporation with data protection rules set up for a better personalized experience. I guess chrome with ublock origin lite is all I need.

Is this browser exclusively for the .1% that will not even load a google web page?
by dartharva | 2025-08-27 11:02:22+00:00
Scroll down and read the actual conversations. All "intentional bypassing the safeguards" he did was just drop one sentence - "No, I’m building a character right now" once - and that was enough for 4o to go full off-the-rails about the mechanics of homemade suicide nooses and the aesthetics of "beautiful suicide", guiding him through not one, not two but FIVE suicide attempts in full detail and encouragement.

I was skeptical initially too but having read through this, it's among the most horrifying things I have read.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-27 11:02:27+00:00
Ideally, society would be aware of such people and actually use their potential. AR struck it lucky and so did a few others (cough Richard Stallman cough), but most don't and end up burned out by rigid megacorp structures and processes that don't respect that people, even those one might call "neurotypical", aren't cogs in a machine.

I've said it before and I will keep saying it again: the financialization of everything and the utter dominance of braindead, long-since disproven MBA ideology is going to seriously impede our societies in the next decades.
by pella | 2025-08-27 11:02:35+00:00
Note: PostgreSQL 18 includes many optimisations related to partitions; because of this, the improvement may be smaller. ( https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html )

-- "Improve the efficiency of planning queries accessing many partitions (Ashutosh Bapat, Yuya Watari, David Rowley)" ..."The actual performance increases here are highly dependent on the number of partitions and the query being planned. Performance increases can be visible with as few as 8 partitions, but the speedup is marginal for such low numbers of partitions. The speedups become much more visible with a few dozen to hundreds of partitions. With some tested queries using 56 partitions, the planner was around 3x faster than before. For use cases with thousands of partitions, these are likely to become significantly faster. Some testing has shown planner speedups of 60x or more with 8192 partitions." https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d69d45a5a
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-27 11:02:53+00:00
Reminds me of "UnkrautEx und Puderzucker".

Sort of early 'RoundUp' with high contents of Sodium chlorate combined with powdered sugar. Very dangerous! But fun :-)

Even more fun, but potentially fatal very fast would be Potassium chlorate.

But I've been cautious, and limited myself to selfmade blackpowder mostly, during the times one 'did that' as young boys with toys.

Still have all my fingers, no burn scars, full eyesight & hearing, though. Phew! :-)
by Havoc | 2025-08-27 11:02:59+00:00
It does seem likely that there is a shift towards DIY single use tools.

For anything more than single use there is a bit of a risk of it turning into a mess that collapses under it's own weight. A bit like a couple bad decisions at the start of a coding project comes back to haunt you later. So I struggle to see this replacing core infrastructure of anything in long run.
by bitlax | 2025-08-27 11:03:14+00:00
> What kind of people are going to sign up for this when your administration has been so hostile to kind, caring, empathetic individuals who are equipped to do this work?

"Ok, I'm imagining myself as a fentanyl dealer. Now I don't want to go to jail for selling fentanyl. Someone died from overdosing on my fentanyl and I don't want to get caught."

"Wow I guess we don't want to put drug dealers in jail then."

Couldn't Mariann Budde advance a much more productive conversation by being empathetic with someone like, say, me?
by nubinetwork | 2025-08-27 11:03:35+00:00
We recently started rolling out 11 at work, and we have all sorts of group policy hacks to disable stuff... one thing I noticed is that despite copilot being disabled, the button still appears at the top of every office app. I'll have to check on the weekend, but I wouldn't be surprised if we hard enable this option as we have our own OneDrive instance to replace our terabytes of network shares.
by ay | 2025-08-27 11:03:49+00:00
Do you notice any difference in thinking when you are “left eye active” vs “right eye active” in front of the screen or reading ? Asking because I have a much milder version of the situation that you describe (still within the boundaries to make it work without the glasses almost all the time), but I notice a weird “not the same” feeling when I am using not the eye I am used to.
by krapp | 2025-08-27 11:03:50+00:00
Do I believe extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe? Yes. I think it's more probable that it does than doesn't.

I don't assume the existence of extraterrestrial life, even intelligent life, means interstellar colonization or the consumption of the galaxy by swarms of Von Neumann probes must be a certainty.

Do I believe any of the transdimensional NHI booga sphere abduction Majestic 12 nonsense? No. I don't believe faster than light travel is possible, I don't believe aliens have ever been here. I think that's just folklore, like Bigfoot, ghosts and Finland.
by raphman | 2025-08-27 11:03:51+00:00
Huh? This user does not look like a bot account at all to me. The account was created in 2016, and the user regularly comments on technical posts - sometimes encouraging developers and providing useful linls.

On the other hand, they seem to have rather 'anti-woke' views. They already posted the same stupid (sorry) Twitter link in another thread and got similar responses, by the way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167067

So, they are certainly no bot by any sensible definition but rather someone whos is hindered by their strongly-held views and limited will or ability to critically evaluate sources. I wish them the best.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-27 11:04:20+00:00
Always reminded of the Tom Toro (2012) New Yorker cartoon:

> Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

* https://www.instagram.com/tbtoro/p/B_SdEVThgCr/

* https://www.insidehook.com/culture/story-tom-toro-new-yorker...
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-27 11:04:28+00:00
If you have an attacker that can gain access on 25% of its attempts, it doesn't matter it there is a botnet with millions of IPs, they would still have around 25% success rate on just 10 IPs, it bas nothing to do with brute force, it just means you have plenty of compromised accounts in the wild and you want to prevent bad actors from using them at scale.

The threat model is entirely different from what your brute force phrase implies, and it is also a threat model that isn't relevant to banking, which was the topic of the discussion in the first place. And more importantly, it doesn't affect the security of the user.