MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jgraham | 2025-09-09 09:04:05+00:00
It's true, see https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-expensive-gas-not-...

From that article:

> The UK’s electricity market operates using a system known as “marginal pricing”. This means that all of the power plants running in each half-hour period are paid the same price, set by the final generator that has to switch on to meet demand, which is known as the “marginal” unit.

> While this is unfamiliar to many people, marginal pricing is far from unique to the UK’s electricity market. It is used in most electricity markets in Europe and around the world, as well as being widely used in commodity markets in general.

The thing that's unique about the UK is that the marginal price is almost always (98% of the time) set by the price of gas. That means when the gas price increases, the wholesale price of electricity, and hence consumer bills, increase in direct response.

Of course the situation is also made worse by the fact that gas is used directly for heating and cooking in a high proportion of British homes.
by jesus_666 | 2025-09-09 09:05:26+00:00
Work with OpenDocument to get the necessary features into the next version of ODF while keeping national bodies informed about the status of that effort. In the meanwhile, allow Office to save (with reduced functionality) to ODF in order to fulfill the requirements of existing standards-oriented procurement processes. (Fun fact: They did the latter pretty quickly.)

Here's what they shouldn't have done: Undermine ISO's credibility by ramming a hastily-constructed, not-yet-implemented spec through a fast-track process intended for mature specs by stuffing national bodies. I see no reason to place Microsoft's short term profits over the integrity of international standards bodies, nor do I see one to excuse Microsoft for doing so.
by Aleklart | 2025-09-09 09:06:00+00:00
I am user of Microsoft Nuclear Cloud Plant Manager Xp SP3 and after update my control panel restarted causing power outage. Now every time i click power status it is crashing, while power output is rising, making pipes hot.

I already tried msreactor /scannow but don’t want to reinstall reactor as last time I did it I lost my city (and support only told to use boron or move to another area).

Please help!
by coldtea | 2025-09-09 09:07:01+00:00
And that was fine, since the algorithms being much dumber then, never made laymen think "this is intelligent in a human-like way". Plus few cared for AI or AI products per se for the most part.

Now that AI is a household term, and that has human-like output and discussion capabilities, and used by laymen for anything, from diet advice to psychotherapy, the connotation is more damaging since people understand LLMs being AI as having human agency and understanding of the world.
by tomhow | 2025-09-09 09:07:42+00:00
> Do you have anything to say or did god put you here to be a dink?

You can't comment like this on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. The comment would have been fine without that line.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173338 and marked it off topic.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-09 09:08:26+00:00
Ironically, I'm fairly sure that it is in fact big oil propaganda claiming that plastic recycling is big oil propaganda.

You could for example look at China, a country that has embraced nuclear and solar and wind and batteries and EVs because they don't have good access to oil and don't have much government influence from that group.

Do they recycle more or less of their plastic waste than the USA?

Google suggests in 2023 it's 30% in China vs 12% in the USA.

It's a confusing topic, as some anti-plastic campaigners seize on this intentional failure of the US to recycle more and better to try to push total plastic bans.

Which are good policy for specific items, and again we see these being done in China too, as a complement to recycling, not a replacement.
by fastball | 2025-09-09 09:08:27+00:00
Mistral models are not very competitive with other proprietary models. Their competition is mostly from OSS models, which 1. can actually be run anywhere and 2. frequently outperform Mistral models anyway (e.g. DeepSeek 3, Kimi K2, and Qwen3 all outperform Mistral in current LMArena rankings[1]).

Hell, you can host actual frontier models (e.g. Claude 4) on AWS Bedrock in the EU, so "in the EU" (from a hosting perspective) cannot be Mistral's USP. If the proposition is "support EU businesses", then ok, but that is a different thing.

[1] https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text
by troupo | 2025-09-09 09:08:28+00:00
> That stuff happens because Microsoft don't know what the behavior is.

They do. Or they did at the time. They literally had things like "save as Word 95" in their office suite.

> Given the huge effort that would have gone into producing this thousand plus page specification, is understandable why the spec writers would have given up at times.

Given the huge effort to produce it in unreasonable timeline they forced themselves into due to regulatory pressure, sure.

The whole OOXML came about only because some large governments said "well, we don't want to be beholden to black box document formats, and we might want a selection of vendors in the future, so ODF looks like a nice proposition compared to Word, actually".

So it was literally rushed through Ecma. MS submitted 2000 pages in December 2005, the spec grew to 6000 pages over the course of the yer, and got standardised in December 2006. So, only a year to significantly increase the spec and standardize it.

And then it was rushed through the ISO standards track which included things like "Swedish vote declared invalid, accusing MS of manipulating votes" https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Swedish-OpenXML-V... or "Netherlands automatically abstains from voting due to Microsoft" https://archive.ph/20120711220944/http://isoc.nl/michiel/nod... or "near unanimous 'No with comments' turned into 'Abstain' from Malaysia" https://web.archive.org/web/20090726171905/http://www.openma... or...

Google said it best: https://www.csun.edu/~hcmth008/odf/google_ooxml.pdf

--- start quote ---

In developing standards, as in other engineering processes, it is a bad idea to reinvent the wheel. The OOXML standard document is 6546 pages long. The ODF standard, which achieves the same goal, is only 867 pages. The reason for this is that ODF references other existing ISO standards for such things as date specifications, math formula markup and many other needs of an office document format standard. OOXML invents its own versions of these existing standards, which is unnecessary and complicates the final standard.

If ISO were to give OOXML with its 6546 pages the same level of review that other standards have seen, it would take 18 years (6576 days for 6546 pages) to achieve comparable levels of review to the existing ODF standard (871 days for 867 pages) which achieves the same purpose and is thus a good comparison.

Considering that OOXML has only received about 5.5% of the review that comparable standards have undergone, reports about inconsistencies, contradictions and missing information are hardly surprising.

--- end quote ---

Do not for a second assume that anything about OOXML was done in good faith. Well, apart from the thankless work that people assembling the standard did.
by seanalltogether | 2025-09-09 09:09:28+00:00
The concept of reservoirs and emergency supply seems to be completely at odds with privatisation. What private company is going to spend loads of money to build deep reservoirs that are stressed only once every 5 or 10 years. None. They're going to reach for an immediate supply like a river or aquifer and then raise prices if those sources run low. It's insane to plan out infrastructure on the belief that private companies are capable of building such large buffers.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-09-09 09:09:35+00:00
"Privatisation" does not preclude government investment in infrastructure.

"Thatcherism" does, however. It is a warped [Ayn] Randian view of capitalism and those who drive it. State intervention into the machinery of capital, even when it comes to essential infrastructure, is considered a corrupting influence.

Nobody able to change national policy within Downing Street or even ministries in Whitehall, at the time - or since - has had the gumption to say it's not working and we need to do something about it.

You are however right, that NIMBYism has also worked remarkably well - the planning process in the UK is the reason we can't build HS2 cheaply or quickly, and that is relatively painless compared to wind farms, solar farms (also often blocked), never mind building a dam and flooding an entire valley, which was the old way of creating new capacity.
by troupo | 2025-09-09 09:09:36+00:00
> Personally, though, I don't have a problem with search (maybe because I set a lot of channels as "do not recommend/show").

Previously search was just search. It wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad.

Now it shows 5-7 results from actual search (often really bad results).

The next section is "People also watch" which quite often has very passing relevance to what you look for.

Then there are shorts.

Then there's "explore more" which may or may not be relevant to your search, and it has "+N more" underneath.

And then there's the rest of the search which, again, may or may not be relevant to your search at all.

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I think it was slightly fixed recently, so the results are a bit more relevant, but it still is just ... weird
by unwind | 2025-09-09 09:10:28+00:00
This is a very nice idea, nicely presented too.

Bug report: There's a typo in the actual popup as shown to me, it says "extention". Consistently enough, the typo is present in the code snippet in the article:

if (!document.cookie.includes("notice-shown")) { document.getElementById("ad-note-hidden").id = 'ad-note'; document.getElementById("ad-note-content-wrapper").innerHTML = "No adblocker detected. " + "Consider using an extention like <a href=https://ublockorigin.com/>uBlock Origin</a> to save time and bandwidth." + " <u onclick=hide()>Click here to close.</u>"; }
by yetihehe | 2025-09-09 09:10:31+00:00
> Complaining is not a character flaw

Sometimes it is. I was complaining a lot, but then someone had enough and explained to me that it isn't productive (complaining about every minor annoyance) and makes people not like me. Now I'm not complaining so much, only when I know how to change something or that it really needs to be changed. My life got a little better.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-09 09:10:58+00:00
I know how deadly it can be. The thing about the chemical stuff is that it smells bad, it look dirty etc. Once we wandered in an old building that had a huge pool like thing filled with something that smells like freshly roasted nuts. A pleasant smell but its out of place, therefore run away.

Playing with lead, you notice that it lives traces on your hands, it looks wrong so you try not to play with the lead anymore.

A lightbulb with a shiny liquid in it? Don't break it or break it in open air at safe distance. Even if you touch the liquid make sure you wipe it out clean as it looks unnatural.

You easily develop instincts to detect what's dangerous with machines and chemicals, with nuclear you can't do that.

Ans as for the active ones, I hope they are taking good care of them. Bhophal 2.0 is indeed possible.
by kelnos | 2025-09-09 09:11:19+00:00
> There is an unwritten social contract here.

Yes, there is. It's, "I ask your server for bytes, and if your server gives them to me, I interpret and display them however I wish".

The idea that someone downloading a webpage from a publicly-hosted web server could be a "freeloader" is ludicrous.

If you really must extract some form of payment from literally everyone who visits your site, you'll have to put up a paywall. Otherwise, if you give me content when I request it, I'm going to display it however I want.

> If people aren't going to be polite and accept that contract then fine

The "contract" you describe is just something you made up. I've been on the internet since the early 90s, and that has never ever ever been the deal.

Advertising is malware for your brain. I won't let it in, and no one else should either.
by mnky9800n | 2025-09-09 09:11:19+00:00
I think an interesting, yet unsurprising, result is that when asked to make a general predictor the ultimate result of all of this is that gradient boosting is still a winner.

> The discovered solutions showed strong convergence towards gradient boosting

and figure 17 which shows that about 2/3 of all solutions arrive at using some kind of gradient boosting or ensemble method.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-09 09:11:31+00:00
> ...and now you’re spreading defeatism to strangers on the internet.

It's more like I took a bit cynical view about the current situation. However, this view is based not only on my own experience, but also on what I read in the linked article.

- 14 EU countries in favour of Chat Control - 5 EU countries not in favour - 8 EU Undecided / Unclear

So this technologically absurd solution to a given problem is clearly gaining traction. Perhaps it's a good thing that my cynical perspective is so triggering to random strangers on the internet.

> That is incredibly naive. What does that even matter, in a world where everyone around you is surveilled.

I think this comment was unnecessary. My notion of GnuPG was humorous satire.
by SyrupThinker | 2025-09-09 09:11:50+00:00
> You arguably shouldn't be grinding a boss for several hours.

I agree, unfortunately I'm not even grinding the boss, I am grinding the path to the boss.

> Learning to identify this as a sign to step away is a very good life skill.

Which is why I stopped playing the game instead of letting it waste my time, like many others :)

> Take a 15 min break, either go somewhere else in game or better still, in real life. It really makes a world of difference.

It it is not like I, or every other person struggling with playing the game, have been continuously doing the same boss, for extensively long game sessions. I only have 8 hours evenly spread across the last 5 days.

I've also explored up to Graymoor at this point and picked up a few of the upgrades there, I don't think that is actually the issue here.

Unfortunately basically every encounter up to this point has the same runback tedium to it. So unless one one-tries a boss, which at least did happen twice to me, there seems to be no real way to avoid this tedium because of progression locks.

For comparison, I've played Elden Ring and the DLC, I've never had this much frustration there, because for the most part the struggle was with the bosses, not the perceived busy work of getting to them.

But it doesn't really matter, a good chunk of the players seem to enjoy it, the game doesn't need to appeal to everyone.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-09 09:12:59+00:00
What's with the utterly uninformed takes on energy on HN?

Wind makes extremely good sense and has been making good sense for 30 years or more now depending on where on the globe you are looking. There is a ton of FUD about it but it is practical, affordable, available and relatively fast to deploy. Moreover there is readily financing available to take care of the capex.

There are 7 MW turbines deployed regularly

https://www.enercon.de/en/turbines/e-175-ep5

And there are 10 MW turbines and higher on the drawing board. Offshore and onshore options are available.
by imtringued | 2025-09-09 09:14:09+00:00
This isn't just an AI thing. There are a lot of of non-constructive ideologies like communism where simply getting rid of "oppressors" will magically unleash the promised utopia. When you give these people a constructive way to accomplish their goals, they will refuse, call you names and show their true colors. Their criticism is inherently abstract and can never have a concrete form, which also makes it untouchable by outside criticism.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-09 09:14:56+00:00
Innocent until proven guilty.

Or the PR team undermines their own credibility with a stock and specious fact-free non-response.

I think the point of these is to dodge the even guiltier look of “no comment”. And signal there won’t be any potentially costly cooperative engagement from their side to their shareholders.

They don’t expect to be believed.
by pembrook | 2025-09-09 09:15:44+00:00
All sounds like classic marketing/positioning angles for an indiehacker bootstrapped saas tool.

Problem is Mistral needs more than $10K MRR, and isn't going to make it by carving off a small niche when each model costs 10s of Billions to train and run. Europe has no solution to the energy problem long term unfortunately, and is actively trying to make it worse.

I'm 100% certain some giant industrial companies in the EU will sign a huge contract with Mistral to give their employees "EU approved" AI.

But I'm also 100% certain these employees will just use chatgpt or any of the other frontier models in actual day-to-day reality. Europeans aren't dumb and don't want to be fed inferior slop in the name of abstract emotional vibes.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-09 09:16:10+00:00
Congratulations! now you have a island at the wrong end of a population boom.

All of your former productive workers are now retired, and the rest are expected to pay for the retirees and aging infrastructure.

Now, is growing by a million a year a good way to build long term? no.

Is depopulation going to make the country better? also no.

Immigrants aren't the problem here, They're not the one scaring away buisness, not building homes, not changing the law to make needed changes.

The people who are to blame are the commentariat and the rest of the "political calss" who refuse to accept blame or change.
by TomasBM | 2025-09-09 09:16:27+00:00
You can think even simpler.

As one individual, you don't really owe anything to anyone. The only time you owe something is in social terms, when you borrow it in your name, or promise reward for work. And even then, people try to get out of paying things back, but in most cases, the courts, the police or the payees themselves get them to do it anyway.

If you own some land, and suddenly, you can get work on it done without giving almost anything in return (except electrical power), you don't owe anything to anyone. And if you can defend that land effectively, you don't physically need anyone else.

This concept of the social contract, where some abstract group of rich owes something to an abstract group of workers, is actually just a series of consequences that happened to a bunch of individuals when debts weren't paid. But if you're rich, the consequences are no longer an issue, and you're not motivated by some other thing (morals or empathy, for example), the social contract breaks down in your favor.

It's a good thing to remind oneself that social contracts don't maintain themselves, we need to maintain them.
by arghwhat | 2025-09-09 09:16:29+00:00
It's not an uncommon terminology in the WSI portion of graphics APIs, I was just pointing out that it doesn't actually mean anything to the hardware/lower stack. There are only buffers.

(There can be restrictions on which buffer formats and layouts can be used for certain things, scanout being particularly picky, but a regular window can be textured from pretty much any buffer.)
by WASDAai | 2025-09-09 09:16:37+00:00
TL;DR: A new preprint explores the mosquito sialome (saliva proteome), showing how its proteins act as anticoagulants, immune modulators, and even pain suppressors. Beyond vector biology, these molecules could inspire vaccines against mosquito-borne diseases and novel therapeutics (anti-inflammatory, antiviral, non-opioid analgesics, anticoagulants). Early-stage research, but intriguing biotech potential.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-09 09:16:43+00:00
> someone shared something incriminating in a group chat and got arrested, and that info was only shared in the group chat

“Only” is doing an incredible amount of work there.

Unless you concoct something incriminating solely for the purpose of testing this, the something incriminating being discussed in group chat previously happened in the real world. Ripples of information were created there and can be found (parallel construction).
by kelnos | 2025-09-09 09:17:07+00:00
A consensus answer to "what should google.com look like?" does not suggest or imply any sort of "social contract".

There is not, and has never been, a social contract that says I have to look at the ads served with any website. If you think there is, then I'm sorry, but you're sorely mistaken.

Similarly, there is no social contract that says I have to watch commercials while I'm watching TV (not that I've watched linear TV in over a decade, but...). I can mute it, change the channel, go to the bathroom, whatever. If you think there is, then I'm not sure what to tell you; your opinions on this are so outside the mainstream that we're not going to see eye-to-eye on this.
by momciloo | 2025-09-09 09:17:23+00:00
From this perspective, that makes total sense. We thought about it, but spinning up a dedicated replica would mean duplicating most of our infra, and I’ve always been hesitant about that.. it’s hard to guarantee it behaves exactly like production. Bugs sometimes hide in those edge differences.

But yes, I agree even a simple flag (“tester”) on accounts would have gone a long way. At least then we could separate metrics and clean up the noise afterwards without burning so much time. Definitely something I’d do differently if we ever tried again.
by ChristopherDrum | 2025-09-09 09:17:33+00:00
Author here. I did not say circles don't draw well. I said that "swiftly-drawn curves are flattened" and likened it to a "large wash." By that I mean long, swift, edge-to-edge brush strokes. Perhaps the use of the word "curves" confused that point, but the natural arcs of human hand/wrist motion are what I wanted to evoke. I also noted a "fat brush in symmetry mode" exhibits the same effect. I can attest to two points about that from firsthand experience:

1. That was also true on original hardware (when I owned the system in my younger days). I distinctly remember having to slow down certain movements to let the system keep pace, depending on speed and complexity of motion. 2. The effect is drastically improved (and I note so in the article) by choosing a faster virtual CPU.
by Masterworkapp | 2025-09-09 09:17:44+00:00
I’ve been juggling Slack, Google Calendar, and different task apps for years, and half my day was spent switching tabs and copying info between them. I wanted something that felt more natural: when people talk about plans or tasks, they should just become part of your schedule without extra steps.

So I built Masterwork, a chat app that merges:

Chat – fast, lightweight messaging with support for interactive message types (checklists, shared expenses, polls, etc.).

Calendar – messages like “let’s meet tomorrow at 3” turn directly into events. You can also sync with Google Calendar.

Tasks – assign or track tasks directly inside chat, no separate app needed.

Customization – multiple themes, customizable home feed, and interactive features designed to make group collaboration smoother.

It’s still early, but I think there’s room for a communication tool that combines chat + planning without the overhead of juggling multiple apps.

Would love feedback from the HN community — what do you think works here, what feels unnecessary, and what would you want from an app like this?
by tome | 2025-09-09 09:18:57+00:00
> Nobody able to change national policy within Downing Street or even ministries in Whitehall, at the time - or since - has had the gumption to say it's not working and we need to do something about it.

Thatcher's been dead for 12 years and out of power for 35, so I'm not sure why it should take much gumption. All it needs is national leaders who believe in the flourishing of the country, and that that requires infrastructure development, not just banks, software and scientific research. Unfortunately I don't see any such leader on the horizon.