MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8bitsrule | 2025-09-13 05:04:18+00:00
As an expert remarked way back in a time when the nukes were conveniently making plutonium, and kids got free comic books promoting them, and the plans for handling waste seemed sound :

"At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy which can be extracted much more economically from conventional fuels.… This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe."

— C. G. Suits, Director of Research, General Electric, who was operating the Hanford reactors, 1951.

(Hanford today, sitting on 56M gallons of leaking wastewater, is debating whether that newly-constructed vitrification plant should be allowed to operate, since it'll emit dangerous levels of toxic acetonitrile.)
by pfdietz | 2025-09-13 05:04:51+00:00
If one tries to quantify the value of those deaths, using the "statistical value of a human life" (somewhere around $12M/death), one finds in the case of both wind/solar and nuclear, using those numbers, the value of those lives contributes negligibly to the cost of energy. This is unlike with coal.

This means that in choosing between solar/wind and nuclear, one cannot use the deaths/TWh to choose between them unless they are almost dead even in other costs (and they are not).
by steve-atx-7600 | 2025-09-13 05:06:12+00:00
Strongly recommend apple silicon Mac (if using a Mac) and the Mac ports path. I have an m4 MacBook Pro and the Rosetta powered binary was almost unusable. Mac ports wasn’t too hard for me to figure out though the install (mostly compiling) took several hours. I have had no issues with coexistence of Mac ports and homebrew. Don’t attempt this is you are using beta builds of tahoe - Mac ports isn’t released for Tahoe yet.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-13 05:08:33+00:00
Variable width encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16 cannot be indexed in O(1), only in O(N). But this is not really a problem! Instead of indexing strings we need to slice them, and generally we read them forwards, so if slices (and slices of slices) are cheap, then you can parse textual data without a problem. Basically just keep the indices small and there's no problem.
by gpm | 2025-09-13 05:08:49+00:00
By WPE - I don't think anyone has even claimed that informally - since they don't distribute software and WordPress is GPL not AGPL it would be hard to. Moreover they (according to themselves) use an unmodified version of WordPress which would make it next to impossible. Of course according to Matt they use “something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress” but “is not WordPress.” And is a “cheap knock off” or a “bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code.” [1] but there's still no claim that they distribute that simulacra.

By Matt - no one has claimed it formally but I think there's at least a plausible claim that he has violated part 6 with his attempts at extortion, which requires "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein". Especially clearly as it pertains to any existing nominative use's of the WordPress trademarks within the unmodified WordPress code (which trademark law in no way prohibits WPE from using, and Matt demanded were changed).

[1] Taken from the complaint https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43...
by jasona123 | 2025-09-13 05:09:08+00:00
Ah QGIS. Love working with it (it got me through university + 3 years of being in the planning industry w/o touching Esri)! hated managing it on the Mac admin side (no ARM native build and more importantly no notarized builds). I do hear v4 might fix both issues so I’m looking forward to that next month.
by chaboud | 2025-09-13 05:09:15+00:00
Note how I structure my problem solving questions to be progressive and adjustable, both up and down. This gives me room to simplify and get the candidate to a place where they can show me something (candidates who truly come up goose eggs on everything functional but still show solid fundamentals may be showing that the interview is for the wrong job family). It also means that it is virtually impossible to get all the way to "the end" and "finish" the problem, as I leave room for extension and modification. I had one question that I thought was long enough, and, of maybe ~120 interviews with it, exactly two people dunked on it, one writing out code for solutions with and without libraries. That guy was a complete jerk, and I wasn't at all surprised when the entire panel came back not-inclined.

My first boss (a CTO at a start-up) drilled this into us. What you know is far less valuable than how you learn/think and how you function on a team.
by myrandomcomment | 2025-09-13 05:09:17+00:00
Sitting in the passenger seat of the wife's Macan 4S EV right now. Installed 11.2KW charging for it. Had to stop at a super charger for 15 minutes as we had to take an unexpected long trip today and she never plugs it in until the car is at 30%. I would 100% install this in the floor. You park in the garage and it charges. It is perfect.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 05:09:29+00:00
>The de jure description for why h1bs would be allowed is due to them, again _ostensibly_, having skills or a specific skillset that could not be found in a reasonable time frame and are worth importing.

There is no such description in law (this is what de jure means) so I have no clue why you think so.

>I was under the impression that h1bs positions were supposed to pay a “higher than prevailing wage”

They are. It does not mean they are for jobs, which cannot be done by an American worker, ostensibly or otherwise.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-13 05:10:20+00:00
That definitely doesn't look good for privacy POV. If they do not want abuse, they ought to use other means. They should not associate IPs with account creation. That is kind of scary. In fact, if what you have said is true, then one's account can be blocked by someone else's mischief on the same IP, which is not very uncommon at all i.e sharing the IP.
by echelon | 2025-09-13 05:10:36+00:00
This was all shitty behavior.

But WP Engine was equally shitty (even if it's "legal" - OSI purism has no sense of justice) to steal his company's lunch, from their decades of hard work, and contribute absolutely nothing back.

Again, it reeks of the same foul behavior we see from the hyperscalers.
by Tanjreeve | 2025-09-13 05:11:25+00:00
This might be the most annoying habit of corporarte AI that it might be one of the few industries that goes around demanding everyone else provides clear use cases and proof of efficacy for it.

1. If the benchmarks are just testing the ability to get the answers from history then something is clearly wrong with the benchmark.

2. If that's even a possibility then that's going to lower confidence in the ability to deal with the vast majority of problems where you don't already have the answer written down.

3. That's not the customers problem to solve on behalf of the vendor.
by bjoli | 2025-09-13 05:11:30+00:00
I have only watched this from afar (Sweden), but it seems weird that the people that are the loudest about their outrage are the same people that mocked Nancy Pelosi after the attack on her husband (she wasn't at home).

Even Charlie Kirk himself said a Patriot should bail the man out.

I don't condone the attack on Charlie Kirk. I think political violence in a liberal democracy is a bad thing. However, to me it seems like a lot of people wouldn't have minded much if the dead husband and father of 2 would have been on the other team. From what I have seen about the divisive discourse of Charlie Kirk, I am not sure Charlie Kirk would have minded much himself.

Searching twitter about the murder of Melissa Horton or attack of Pelosi, and you will find republican lawmakers spreading misinformation about it and even mocking the victims or making fun of the attacks. These people should not be in the business of lawmaking. They believe in nothing except their own team winning no matter what.
Show HN: Skeletoken, a Package for Editing Tokenizers
by stephantul | 2025-09-13 05:11:59+00:00
Hello!

I work on Hugging Face tokenizers a lot in my day job. Editing tokenizers, e.g., adding or removing tokens is super painful. This is why I wrote a library for working with the format.

It contains many useful tools for working with tokenizers, checking them, making them lowercased, etc.

There’s still loads of features to add and probably bugs to iron out, but I’ve been using it and it seems to work well!

Please let me know what you think, Stéphan
by sterlind | 2025-09-13 05:12:57+00:00
> Unfortunately, and you probably have already heard. ATF leaked that the rounds were etched with pro-trans messaging and the shooter is allegedly a trans man.

fortunately, this was bogus! the "pro-trans messaging" was that the bullets were stamped with "TRN," which was the manufacturer's mark, and the shooter was a 22yo cis Mormon male.
by bigiain | 2025-09-13 05:13:19+00:00
From what we (at least I) know, this wasn't the police in Switzerland waking up senior management.

t was - without anyone admitting to it - probably KrCERT who requested the account suspension. KrCERT don't seem to have any legal jurisdiction in Switzerland.

"KrCERT/CC, which is an internal division of KISA, is a CSIRT with national responsibility and a focal point of contact for Korea on international cybersecurity incident handling." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Internet_%26_Security_Ag...

I'd like to think if they 'tapped on the shoulder of the CTO ' of a company headquartered in Switzerland, he'd say "maybe, come back with an order from a relevant court or security agency in Switzerland and I'll get my team right on that".
by bigyabai | 2025-09-13 05:13:43+00:00
> Don't be too kind to the trillion dollar company.

They got to be worth a trillion dollars somehow. I hate Apple with the passion of a million suns; guess what? They sell something people want. They make money, they survived. Their copyright is preserved equally as well as the AS-IS terms of the BSD license. And despite being whipped like a dog, there are still multiple BSD OSes with modern software packaged for them.

> We let these giant companies use open source to make the internet and technology more centralized and less free.

Do "we"? I'm running Firefox right now, maybe you're on an iPad or some other platform that locked you down. But that's your problem, if it concerned you then you should have returned it to the Apple store.

People still have a free choice to run whatever software they want. Wordpress is not being made "less free" because hosting companies won't get out of bed to pay Matt's bills. If the project has to die to prove it, it will die as a free program. It will still be forkable and maintainable by the community because that was the intention and spirit of the project.

> Google is very good at this game.

No, the fed is just particularly bad at it.

Google's big problem is that they monopolize online advertising and the DOJ refuses to neuter them. If your free access to the internet gets tragically cut off by Apple's indignant software policies... not my problem, is it?
by keeda | 2025-09-13 05:13:55+00:00
Hmm, I think all languages, regardless of verbosity, could be better with IntelliSense. I mean, if the IDE can reliably predict what you intend to type based on the context, regardless of the complexity of the application involved, why not have it?

Seems like languages like Java and C# that encourage more complexity just aim to provide richer context to mine. Simple example, given an incomplete line like "TypeA foo = bar.", the IDE can very easily figure out you want "bar.getBlah(baz)" because getBlah has a return type of "TypeA" and "baz" is the only variable available in the scope. But to have all that context at that point requires a whole bunch of setup beforehand, like a fine-grained types supported by a rich type system and function signatures and so on, which incentivizes verbosity that usually scales with the complexity of the app.

So yes, that's a lot of verbosity, but also a lot of context. To your point, I feel like the philosophy of languages like Java and C# is deliberately based on providing enough context for sophisticated tooling like IntelliSense and IntelliJ.

Unfortunately, the languages came before such sophisticated tooling existed, and when good tools did exist they were expensive, and even with those tools now being widely and freely availble, many people still don't use them. (Plus, in retrospect, the language designs themselves genuinely turned out to be more complex than ideal in some aspects.)

So the current reputation of these languages encouraging undue complexity is probably due to their philosophies being grounded in sound reasoning but based on predictions that didn't quite pan out as expected.
by userbinator | 2025-09-13 05:14:01+00:00
Part 2 is the challenging part; it's mostly a problem solving thing and less of a coding problem

That doesn't look too challenging for anyone who has experience in low-level programming, embedded systems, and reverse engineering. In fact for me it'd be far easier than part 1, as I've done plenty of work similar to the latter, but not the former.
by rzzzwilson | 2025-09-13 05:14:22+00:00
Reddit also has shadow-banning, apparently to stop bots and spammers.

There are two things wrong with that idea. First, the false-positive rate was too high - I created more than 10 personal accounts over almost a year, and they were ALL shadow-banned, often after one post. Second, if I was automating spam bots I wouldn't care if one was shadow-banned. It's not hard to automate a test for being banned, so just create a new bot and move on.
by chrismeller | 2025-09-13 05:15:40+00:00
My main one is for ADSB using adsb-lol.

I also have the Pimoroni Enviro+ in my living room. I've got their Grow kit somewhere as well, but... no plants since I moved.

I used to have a Kubernetes cluster running on some Pi3's, but they got a little too slow and I was bumping up against the lower memory. Lots of other self-hosted stuff, but it's all on some old off-lease computers I found cheap, not on a Pi.
by queenkjuul | 2025-09-13 05:16:38+00:00
Been here for a few years already honestly. I've found Raspis kind of annoying to deal with, and x86 mini PCs a lot more consistent and reliable.

Still holding out hope for RISC-V though, my little Milk-V pico-size Ubuntu boards are pretty cool, and I'd much rather write Linux code than rp2040 code directly (because I'm not an embedded developer and don't really know what I'm doing lol)
by cryptonector | 2025-09-13 05:17:53+00:00
Fun fact: ASCII was a variable length encoding. No really! It was designed so that one could use overstrike to implement accents and umlauts, and also underline (which still works like that in terminals). I.e., á would be written a BS ' (or ' BS a), à would be written as a BS ` (or ` BS a), ö would be written o BS ", ø would be written as o BS /, ¢ would be written as c BS |, and so on and on. The typefaces were designed to make this possible.

This lives on in compose key sequences, so instead of a BS ' one types compose-' a and so on.

And this all predates ASCII: it's how people did accents and such on typewriters.

This is also why Spanish used to not use accents on capitals, and still allows capitals to not have accents: that would require smaller capitals, but typewriters back then didn't have them.
by ksec | 2025-09-13 05:18:34+00:00
I think there are a group of people who said they want Mini as in smaller phone, but what they actually want without knowing is a lighter phone. And Air may fit those needs. I guess we will know once it is out on the market.

I actually think there may be a future with iPhone Air Mini. We have Silicon Carbon Battery that has 2x capacity coming out by the end of the year on Smartphone. We have Tendem OLED with better chemistry coming out that improves 30% display efficiency. We have A20 and A16 with backside power distribution to further improve SoC, Modem and Network Chip efficiency. In a realistic scenario, Apple could reduce energy usage by 30% while doubling battery capacity by 100% by 2030. You would get near 3x battery life compared to today's iPhone Air.

I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone Air Mini coming out in 2028 - 2030 will have higher battery life than current iPhone Air. Although I say Air Mini it will still likely be 5.8" or 5.9".
by Retric | 2025-09-13 05:18:46+00:00
> Total death count from nuclear

Total death count is a straw man argument, what matters here is the economic costs.

Mining isn’t the major cost, nuclear fuel is expensive for other reasons. Refining gets rid of even more uranium before it gets to the reactor. CANDU tried to get around that by using unenriched uranium, but ran into other issues.

And that’s what pro nuclear people seem to miss, really smart people have been trying to solve this issue for decades there’s no easy solutions with well understood downsides. Let’s quickly build some new design isn’t a solution it’s a big part of why nuclear construction costs are so high.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-13 05:20:23+00:00
> It takes 10-20 years to build a new nuclear plant

This, again, is not true. The average is currently at 6.5 years and dropping slightly, the time has been fairly consistent over the last decades.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

The main factor determining build times appears to be "how much do you want to?". France built 50+ reactors in a total of 15 years, the fastest build times are Japan, South Korea, China and Germany.

Secondary factors are "is this a FOAK build or NOAK", and "how much experience is there building nuclear plants". When Japan was good it built in under 4 years, and had plans to go below 3. And no, that's not detrimental to safety.

> and use just isn't that important of a factor.

It is when land is expensive.

> With the electrification of cars and so on, the grid has to be modernized no matter what.

Typical dodge into the qualitative: the additional grad capacity required to ship power across the country from where it is produced to where it is needed is a multiple of that required to strengthen it for additional consumers. Never mind the whole "smart grid" madness.

> Most of the time nuclear also doesn't pay for decommissioning and nuclear waste etc. by itself.

That's also false. These costs are almost always included and have little impact on the total cost of power. For example, the Gösgen plant in Switzerland produces for 4,34 Rappen / kWh, including all costs and including a profit.

> At the same time a lot of renewable projects right now are also profitable without subsidize

That's also not true. When subsidies for off-shore wind were reduced, Germany, Denmark and the UK had zero bids for wind-parks, and immediately the discussion was "new subsidy models". Intermittent renewables in Germany currently get €20 billion in direct subsidies, never mind the advantage of having feed-in priority and being able to burden other producers with cost of intermittency.

> The Blackout in Spain had nothing to do with renewables

That's also not true. There was a trigger (in PV production) that led to a substation having problems. But that was just the trigger, not the cause. Grids have to be able to deal with faults like that from time to time. The grid in Spain wasn't, because there were too many intermittent renewables in the grid, and too few rotating masses that stabilize the grid.

> Grid scale batteries solve this problem.

Are these grid scale batteries sufficient to power an entire industrialized nation for a week or more in the room with us now? How much are they?
by alex1138 | 2025-09-13 05:21:18+00:00
I don't think "push out a vaccine in less than a year" is such a good flex especially when they also demonized and rigged the studies of the alternative drugs that must not be named

Fauci himself was known to say that vaccine development takes at least 5-10 years or something like that (and never mind the fact we had Event 201, that the virus contains code BY MODERNA) or else all hell breaks loose (he was also known to say masks aren't effective)
by ncallaway | 2025-09-13 05:21:50+00:00
> posting on a YC forum over other forums due to them supporting or having an interest in YC.

I've been posting here for over a decade, and I have absolutely no interest in YC in any way, other than a general strong negative sentiment towards the entire VC industry YC included.

Lots of people come here for the forum, and leave the relationship with YC there.
by zkmon | 2025-09-13 05:23:11+00:00
My gripe was actually only about the post, not about the blog. Sorry for not being specific. But if you read my comment closely you would have realized that I was commenting only on the post. I mention this because it goes to show what kind of animals we became to be - we don't read fully, we don't try to understand what's behind some text. We simply don't have time.

Also, your blog didn't just "happen" to be public. You posted about it on HN and you are curious about the HN comments on your post. This means you want people to read and comment on your stuff. There is no point in pretending that it's just for your own consumption. If you don't want people to say what they feel about your content, don't post it here. It is like looking into mirror and asking it not to show things you don't like. You need to come to accept the feedback, since you asked for it.

You can down vote me to ground. But you need to realize that this is HN, the feedback garden. And it did not happen to be that way. It is intentional.
by jjav | 2025-09-13 05:23:30+00:00
> The people who want small, mid-sized towns are free to live literally anywhere they want outside major metro areas. There's 90+% of the state by land area left to them.

Whether good or bad, it's important to realize this is not true in California, with regard to these laws. They apply everywhere, not only in urban centers.

So if there are people who want small towns without dense development, that option has been taken away entirely.

I live in a tiny town (population < 10K) surrounded by forest, far from any urban center. An d even here some of the wooded areas are being clearcut to build dense apartments due to these laws.
by developerDan | 2025-09-13 05:23:39+00:00
The opinion that those who consume should contribute back is not wrong, and as an open source contributor I fully agree, but it should be understood that anything free is going to be taken. We are an imperfect people in an imperfect world, after all.

I don’t put old furniture on the curb with a FREE sign expecting someone to knock on my door and offer $100 for it. I expect it to be gone without a trace. If I want something, even if it’s 1% of the value, then I’ll have a yard sale. It’s no different here.

Licensing is a form of conveying expectations. Putting an MIT license in my repo conveys that I expect absolutely nothing in return, just like the free sign on the stuff I tossed out.
by ggm | 2025-09-13 05:23:51+00:00
Owner of same company co funded major HVDC cable investment with solar, selling to SG, then tanked it when they refused to pivot to shorter term profit.

He also started a JV to make hydrogen, and hydrogen producing technology and then walked off the project when state government funding disappeared.

He's not evil, but he has form for massive high frontier public noises about green investment and then ends it super fast when the cost breaks some barrier we don't know about but which looks like when short term profit choices make it less viable. Odd, because most green investment is about the longer term.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-13 05:24:11+00:00
> To be fair, UTF-8 sacrifices almost nothing to achieve backwards compat though.

There were apps that completely rejected non-7-bit data back in the day. Backwards compatibility wasn't the only point. The point of UTF-8 is more (IMO) that UTF-32 is too bulky, UCS-2 was insufficient, UTF-16 was an abortion, and only UTF-8 could have the right trade-offs.