MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2025-09-09 14:20:17+00:00
Of course electricity at night is highly desirable. But there are no economic incentives to build it.

From a purely financial point of view, base load is not appealing. Whereas cheap solar is appealing. If I have a billion$ to invest, I know which one I'm choosing. I'm maximizing return, not "societal good". Which is why govt is best placed to build base load, since they optimize for societal good, not profit.

To make base load appealing to investors we need expensive power at night. But that's countered by local battery storage.

To be clear, this is not a "what we need" argument. It's a capital argument. Private Power suppliers chase profit, and there's more profit in daytime power than nighttime power.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-09 14:20:26+00:00
Telling Europeans to develop their own tech is hardly in the interest of US corporations...

Europe is on track to slip into stagnation (if it isn't already) and they seem to think that they can regulate/bureaucrat their way out of it ("If companies aren't making money, make it illegal to not make money!" level thinking).

Once economic conditions get tight, which will happen on the current trajectory, especially with a bunch of pensioners in the pipeline and not enough young people to fund it[1], the EU will fracture and the resentment and finger pointing will begin. Nationalist energy will explode (which is already forming), and Russia will be licking it's lips. Think of what Europe would be right now if daddy USA didn't bankroll half of Ukraines aid, including tons of USA weapons and tech.

Economic faltering will put Europe in either full scale war (who knew forgotten history can repeat), or they will be back at daddy USA's doorstep begging for protection.

Or they will need to fill the gaps with AI, which will probably be US tech AI at this point.

[1]https://www.cde.ual.es/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Population...
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 14:20:28+00:00
Wow there is a lot to unpack here.. Firstly don't speak as if 'they' in some absolute consensus please, in the EU we are nothing if opinionated about our own interests, hence the amount of bureaucracy and the length of time it takes to enact certain things.

> They cannot imagine any alternative to the US foreign department dictated world order - or they just don't want to imagine it.

Dictated or not, you're missing the main point that we are 'aligned'. Why would we not embrace an open and free market. That's what works for the EU itself and so when a world leader also shared the same policies, naturally we would embrace that and vice versa. It's not some dictator sitting in the US, a good example of this are how many products are not allowed to be sold in the EU from the US due to health risks we asses as unacceptable. We decide that, free market.

> The height of irresponsibility to them is to imagine something outside the present order (such as Varoufakis making practical plans for leaving the Euro during the Greek debt crisis)

Again you are assuming that mitigations and considerations haven't been considered, there are MANY provisions for leaving the EU, but why would we focus primarily on those situations when we as a union have a parliment to come together and work together. That is always the priority. We don't have one overarching federal system. We have a collection trading block who internally are independant and externally we can negotiate trade deals as one union, meaning better deals. That's it.

> The very action of imagining things threatens the stability which is the base of everything they actually value, which is little more than peer prestige and comfort for themselves.

This makes no sense and it's purely conjecture. Is the EU perfect, no, does anyone think it is, nope. Is it constantly in flux to improve, absolutely.
by VHRanger | 2025-09-09 14:20:46+00:00
I mean, huge software with a ton of quirks like a AAA video game are arguably not a good benchmark to understand hardware.

They're still good benchmarks IMO because they represent a "real workload" but to understand why the 9800X3D performs this much better you'd want some metrics on CPU cache misses in the processors tested.

It's often similar to hyperthreading -- on very efficient sofware you actually want to turn SMT off sometimes because it causes too many cache evictions as two threads fight for the same L2 cache space which is efficiently utilized.

So software having a huge speedup from a X3D model with a ton of cache might indicate the sofware has a bad data layout and needs the huge cache because it keeps doing RAM round trips. You'd presumably also see large speedups in this case from faster RAM on the same processor.
by OskarS | 2025-09-09 14:21:07+00:00
> It's the sequel to a game (Hollow Knight) which is widely regarded as one of the best of all time.

I would say this is overstating it a bit. Hollow Knight was critically lauded, grew an intense fan-base, and often considered one of the best in its genre (the awkwardly named group of "metroidvanias"), but it's a bit much to say that it has the reputation of "one of the best of all time". It's not, like, Tetris or Super Mario World.

Also, and this is just my personal opinion, but I'm about a dozen hours into it, and so far I haven't found it THAT much harder than the original. Maybe it's because I've played Hollow Knight and gotten used to the controls by now, but I remember struggling a lot with lots of parts of Hollow Knight, about as much as I'm struggling with Silksong. Enough people have been saying it so I suspect I might just be misremembering.

Excellent game in general, by the way, really enjoying Silksong so far.
by Lendal | 2025-09-09 14:21:34+00:00
It's not just him, it's the whole base that does this. Taking a cue from the most infamously persecuted person in history, Jesus Christ, that's what they're going for. The more hate, the stronger their resolve. Hate is the fuel that keeps the whole engine running, so low public support will do nothing to slow this process down. It will only fuel it.

Think about that photo of blood coming from a nicked ear evoking Jesus Christ on the cross. That's the photo that made him into a god and won him the election. It's all about the persecution.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-09 14:21:46+00:00
It is the fault of the EU leaders. No question about it.

> Under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, France pursued diplomatic independence and promoted a vision of European collective security that conflicted with American leadership in NATO, especially regarding the integration of member states' armed forces under a US-led unified command and the control of NATO’s nuclear arsenal.

Charles de Gaulle believed that France and the EU countries should stay out of NATO so that it could foster it's own military defense, yet the French leaders and their other EU countreparts decided that it was much more convenient to have the US as a back-stop because they needed the cash that should have gone to their armies for other purposes. This has been happening for decades.

That lead to the situation that we are in today where most of the EU's defense strategy is in fact subsidized by the US. The NATO EU countries despite signing the treaties have barely managed to keep up with the minimum NATO required spending on their own defenses.

This was entirely the doing of Europe.
by FromOmelas | 2025-09-09 14:22:12+00:00
The 250bn figure is one pushed by the private owners, trying to defend their high yields. It's likely inflated with bonuses and short term schemes to juice returns. Meanwhile, they've extracted 85bn in dividends since privatization began. Privatizing them cost approx 7.6bn - that's a 12x return over less then 40 years. Pretty nice if you can get it.
by dlojudice | 2025-09-09 14:22:24+00:00
> a study highlighted by Apple today shows that iOS apps generated R$63.8 million ($11.7 million) in the country last year

> The study concluded that the App Store generated R$63.8 billion ($11.7 billion) for Brazilian developers last year

It seems the correct (from the original source) is billions.

https://www.apple.com/br/newsroom/2025/09/app-store-brazil-f...
by dostick | 2025-09-09 14:22:37+00:00
This is bad UX to the point it’s not coherent at all.

The “question” - is a statement at the top in smaller italic type that you can hardly see? It should be largest. And then what am I supposed to do? Why one option has a heart on it?

Is “simulation” questions and answers? Then it’s a quiz? Why simulate, do you learn through that?
by myrmidon | 2025-09-09 14:23:24+00:00
You raise good points, but I think none of the anti-renewable arguments are really show-stoppers, mainly because of how cheap things have become; solar panels are cheaper than glass windows now and prismatic LiFePo cells are down to ~$60 for 1kWh at single digit quantities (!!).

Figuring out the most economical mix of overprovisioning, improved grid connectivity, battery storage and more exotic longer term storage (synthetic gas/heat/fossils + capture/etc.) is a problem that is IMO best solved by the market over time.

I also think it is very telling how even a nation like France, which is basically in the perfect position to stick with nuclear power over renewables is still building out wind/solar rapidly. Nuclear power not even managing to defend its home turf makes it very questionable to fully bet on it elsewhere.
by yeoyeo42 | 2025-09-09 14:23:26+00:00
it's not meaningless, it has several direct implications about the nature of reality.

consider that subjective experience - to put it in the weakest and most general statement - clearly has a physical component. I'm being careful to not say that it is a physical phenomenon, is caused by physical phenomena, and so on, because while I think that's a reasonable assumption, we technically have no evidence for it.

but we do have plenty of evidence that, even if it is some supernaturally created magical process, subjective experience interacts with the physical world. for one, it clearly exchanges information with basic physical systems in your body - if it did not have some way to exchange information about what your eyes are seeing, you wouldn't be able to experience sight.

subjective experience is also easily altered with simple physical phenomena like chemical substances in your brain. so either these physics directly modify your subjective experience, or the subjective experience you have is mostly a physical product of your brain and the subjective experience part is only the end point of the process that receives all the information.

it's interesting because in physics, any exchange of information implies the existence of some directly measurable physical process. anything that is the product of such a process, you can generally speaking measure. all the things you can measure in an experiment are the things we eventually call the fundamental components of nature - like the charge, spin and so on of particles, as well as their place in time and space.

so subjective experience is either already some part we haven't observed of those fundamental components - which would in some way imply that everything is subjectively experiencing all the time - or it's an extra element we have not yet observed, but may be able to directly observe in experiment in the future.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-09 14:23:38+00:00
I'm curious what you mean about the nature of the population?

Age? Ethnic makeup? Urbanisation?

The population is older, less white, more in cities, fewer kids, but I'm not sure what any of that has to do with our water consumption or ability to build for it - other than maybe older people, especially the ones that moved out of the cities to live some LOTR-inspired faux-rural lifestyle, tend to be more NIMBY?

But equally though our appliances and lifestyles aren't the same as 1960. Showers are massively more efficient than baths, but we use them daily instead of once a week. Industry has mostly disappeared, and thermal power stations are on the way out (both extremely heavy water users), but agriculture has become more intensive.
by account42 | 2025-09-09 14:23:53+00:00
Ad-supported services undercut honest ones by pretending they are free when you are paying for them indirectly. They are also incentivized to engage in other bad behavior like gaming SEO or wasting your time with low quality content that's designed to increase ad impressions instead of helping you. I do not recognize the social contract you are implying there is and would be happy if all ad supported sites shut down so that better ones (either actually free or paid honestly) could take their place.
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 14:24:05+00:00
> Their gamble did not pay off because they mis-underestimated Russia.

Like all economies we depend primarily on fossil fuels. It's unfortunate that we can get it ridiculously cheap from Russia but that's the free market. We are working more than anyone else to remove all dependency, but don't start pointing fingers at us just because we purchased the cheapest fossil fuel we could for ourselves. We don't all have the luxury of invading oil rich countries, or have massive reserves ourselves.
by kevinsync | 2025-09-09 14:24:06+00:00
If I understood correctly, it sounds like you could probably change very little of your current setup and just add in an extra step in a script where you use their CLI to upload new content after you do iOS backups [0]

Files get hashed before upload to avoid duplication, so I would imagine that this would also be fine to use in tandem with the mobile app; the app pushes stuff out as it's designed to do, whenever it does it, but then if you upload from a manual backup as well, it would only ingest stuff that's not already in the archive.

[0] https://immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/#qui...
by Obscurely | 2025-09-09 14:24:59+00:00
This was so nostalgic... I really like it and I am very impressed by how well it performs. Regardless of wether the design is original or not if you implemented this from the ground up and used something else as inspiration this is still a clear showcase of your skills. I think this could be considered as the equivalent of looking on StackOverflow for backend programming solutions.

Congrats!
by scott_w | 2025-09-09 14:25:28+00:00
I'm not making a claim one way or another. I merely quoted the article in response to this claim by OP:

> Calling someone a complainer is corporate-speak for “they noticed the fire before leadership did.”

Just so I'm being crystal clear: I was pointing out that the article already addressed OP's statement.

I should also point out that your own comment doesn't refute the article. You just followed the article's advice for yourself rather than for a subordinate (which is fine).
by VHRanger | 2025-09-09 14:25:46+00:00
huh, it seems like the M4 pro can hit >400GB/s of RAM bandwidth whereas even a 9950x hits only 100GB/s.

I'm curious how that is; in practice it "feels" like my 9950x is much more efficient at "move tons of RAM" tasks like a duckDB workload above a M4.

But then again a 9950x has other advantages going on like AVX512 I guess?
by achrono | 2025-09-09 14:25:48+00:00
From the article:

> According to the 115-page complaint, Baig discovered through

> internal security testing that WhatsApp engineers could “move

> or steal user data” including contact information, IP addresses

> and profile photos “without detection or audit trail”.

That isn't really the breach you're making it out to be. Profile photos, unless made private/contacts only, are already publicly visible, and so is "contact information".

Of course these are useful to intelligence services, but this doesn't mean that Baig found they don't have true end-to-end encryption.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-09 14:26:08+00:00
Storing dates as numbers in a spreadsheet has been a thing since the first spreadsheet program I know of. Microsoft picked "days since 1900". If you're on UNIX, you may prefer using "1199188800" instead.

Other than that, the difference is pretty minor. ODS is very verbose and stores the content of the cell twice for some reason, but the XML trees are essentially the same.

The best way for corporate interaction is to export to whatever the hell Microsoft Excel accepts as an external data source, because .xslx files can natively import remote data that way. Hope your customers' computers are all configured for en_US mode, though, because CSVs aren't as universal as people pretend they are.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-09 14:26:54+00:00
I dunno if it means solely military zones or not, e.g. maybe certain key government buildings might be blurred/hidden/obfuscated too. The article seems very light on details.

Regardless of what's included in the above, I took the quoted sentence as meaning something like "because Google will blur the sensitive locations, Maps will now be able to provide directions between two points in South Korea instead of reporting 'Sorry, your search appears to be outside our current coverage area for driving'. This will enable it to be competitive with local navigation platforms". How many people will continue to use the existing services or switch over to Maps is not guaranteed, but I'm willing to bet the net effect is not 0.
by vidarh | 2025-09-09 14:27:09+00:00
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great)

Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
by jpadkins | 2025-09-09 14:27:20+00:00
> Google did not pro-actively vet the truth of Israeli government claims

It is really scary that people are pushing for Google and Meta to be the arbiter of truth. I don't think people realize what they are asking for. Western civilizations have a tradition of liberal free speech, and allowing the courts to sort out the specifics of what speech causes harm to what parties (libel, etc).

There are already laws on the books for false advertising. In the US, the FTC is one who prosecutes those laws, not Google or Meta!

full disclosure: I work on Ads at Google. You really don't want to privatize the prosecution, judgement, jury, and execution of speech laws to mega corps (and I am usually pro-privatization on most topics).
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-09 14:27:30+00:00
Likewise, if it's nationalised, poor water management should result in different voting behaviour, particularly in favor of parties that will improve it.

But I think the other issue there is that for the past 30 years, there hasn't been an issue with the water supply; it's invisible when it's working well, so it doesn't get attention during voting season.
by maltelandwehr | 2025-09-09 14:27:34+00:00
Doesn't the existence - and lack of adoption - for Ecosia and similar services suggest that Europe cannot easily build FAANG overnight?

Technically, we can do it.

But unless we go the Chinese route of blocking US vendors, a lot of people will always flock to the better product that has the bigger marketing budget. And there I do not see how Ecosia could compete with Google, Xing with LinkedIn, Mistral with OpenAI, OHV/IONOS with AWS, or Hetzner with GCP.
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 14:27:49+00:00
> Messages are e2e and WA doesn't have access to them. We're talking about the metadata here.

You're still just blindly trusting this is the case. You can't verify the encryption or any of the code.

It would be trivial to actually encrypt the message and send it out and then store an unecrypted version locally and quietly exfiltrate it later.

They have to already be storing an unecrypted version locally, because you can see the messages. So unless your analyzing packets on the scale of months or years, you cannot possibly know that it isn't being exfiltrate at some point.

Take it a step further: put the extiltration behind a flag, and then when the NSA asks, turn on the flag for that person. Security researchers will never find it.
by Groxx | 2025-09-09 14:28:14+00:00
it has been a rockier history than that - it was playable at E3 in 2019, and there have been multiple teased (but not specific) release dates along the way. e.g. the Wikipedia has some of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Knight:_Silksong

to be clear: I'm not complaining at all, I'd much rather have a good very-delayed sequel than a bad one. but the "it's releasing again" -> "it's delayed again" memes do have reasonable origins.
by abustamam | 2025-09-09 14:28:16+00:00
Last night my wife clicked on an article in her news feed. It wasn't this article, but it was this site.

https://3dvf.com/le-realisateur-philippe-vidal-dumas-nous-qu...

Never mind the dozens of pop-up ads and banners on the site. Random words in the article turn into ads that popup while you're scrolling. And it's easy to accidentally click one because there's more pixels covered by ads than not.

I've been telling her to get an adblocker for years because she, like you, feels like she doesn't need one. But that article last night made her rethink her stance on ads.

For me, I don't mind advertisements. I scroll Instagram a few times a week and there are ads there. I get more ads than actual posts. They're easy enough to ignore. And honestly, sometimes they're interesting.

It's when the ads disrupt my browsing session that pisses me off. If sites didn't have shitty ads that cover your screen and just get in the way, I wouldn't have an adblocker.

I also use adblocker to get rid of shitty non-ad pop-ups, like "you have to install our shitty mobile app to use this site!" Yeah, fuck that. Ublock origin zaps it away.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-09 14:28:17+00:00
The EU could defend itself against Russia on its current budget.

Germany had to reduce its army as part of the reunification deal and is now criticized for not having a big army. Only France has nuclear weapons and the incentive to spend huge amounts on defense while being dependent on leased and US controlled nukes is not great. Do you prefer that all EU countries get their own nukes?

The EU has real tech like ASML, Airbus, Siemens, Alsthom etc. What the US calls "tech" is not regarded as vital in the EU and somewhat belittled. This kind of "tech" is only possible with US hype and massively speculative investments.

The US is begging (and blackmailing with tariffs) countries from all over the world to build factories in the US. That doesn't sound like a great success.

Energy? The US tries to control all energy choke points of energy flow to the EU. The Nord Stream sabotage was hailed as a great operation, enabling the US to sell overpriced LNG to the EU. The US leased a corridor from Azerbaijan to Turkey to control vast amounts of natural gas from Turkmenistan. A Trump adjacent billionaire floated the idea to buy and revive Nord Stream.

What exactly should the EU do? Switch to nuclear energy and buy uranium from Russia like the US does (the US also buys fertilizer)?
by mjr00 | 2025-09-09 14:28:24+00:00
> I would say this is overstating it a bit. Hollow Knight was critically lauded, grew an intense fan-base, and often considered one of the best in it's genre (the awkwardly named group of "metrovanias"), but it's a bit much to say that it has the reputation of "one of the best of all time". It's not, like, Tetris or Super Mario World.

You are welcome to your opinion, but it is literally on a Wikipedia page called "List of video games considered the best."[0] There's no definitive list, of course, but broad consensus is it is one of the best of all time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered...
by BalinKing | 2025-09-09 14:28:33+00:00
I disagree, because with an instrument you actually get music out at the end, which is enjoyable in its own right on top of the satisfaction of executing the technical challenge of playing it. A more akin analogy, in my opinion, would be “any musical instrument which has been artificially muted”—this could definitely still be fun, and indeed I’ve played my keyboard without sound before, but it really doesn’t compare.