MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjmarr | 2025-09-15 13:20:49+00:00
I graduated literally 3 months ago so that's my skill level.

I also have no idea what the social norms are for AI. I posted the comment after a friend on Discord said I should disclose my use of AI.

The underlying purpose of the PR is ironically because Cline and Copilot keep trying to use `int` when modern C++ coding standards suggest `size_t` (or something similar).
by destitude | 2025-09-15 13:20:57+00:00
You forgot to mention anybody who has a yard that gets full sun can mount panels there as well. As far as fires you can say same thing about all the fires that currently occur because of propane, gas, and heating oil. Those have become some engrained in society for so long that you don't even think of that as a "fire hazard therefore you shouldn't even have it".
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-09-15 13:21:41+00:00
Again, that varies from community to community. There are some communities where there is less religious fervor, and more just following tradition, and there are other communities that see their religious experience as the most important part of their identity. The stories you are referencing tend to come more from the communities that emphasize tradition over religious experience.

Many people make the mistake of thinking of Amish as a single uniform blob, whereas in fact there are many very distinct subgroupings that don't have much to do with each other. In the state where I live, for example, there are at least 3 different distinct Amish groups (each with multiple communities, expanding at a very rapid rate), each of which does not necessarily consider the others to be true Amish, with the dividing lines primarily being this difference on or not tradition is prioritized over religious experience.
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-15 13:22:02+00:00
OP has found Graphene to be unusable and my experience has been similar. In contrast, I find /e/OS to be friendly and approachable as a daily driver. To be honest, I don't care if it's a few weeks behind on ASOP patches, it's still far better than the average OEM Android distribution.

A lot of the rest of this post reads as hostile FUD: /e/OS ships with microg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroG) that provides FLOSS reimplementations for some Google services - users can optionally choose to log in with their Google account. Providing this choice out of the box is controversial for people who want a complete and total break from Google.
by ericmay | 2025-09-15 13:22:24+00:00
I think it's very difficult to compare policies in a meaningful way, and be curious to understand why you believe it would be vastly more advantageous to our actual standard of living if housing depreciated, and you could be right, but I don't think your claim that periodically tearing down housing and rebuilding it for cheap means nicer residences. On its face it seems that the opposite is true: cheaper materials means cheaper housing, but not necessarily nicer housing. One way that this claim is suspicious to me is that older houses in the United States are much nicer, if maintained, than newer builds, dollar for dollar and the quality of craftsmanship and materials isn't easy to replicate today. I have actual hardwood planks for flooring. Today if you want "hardwood flooring" it's typically a series of interlocking planks for easy/cheap install (and substantial markup) but not necessarily nice.

And the homes I've seen in Japan personally didn't seem to stand out to me as particularly nice but maybe you have some examples that you are thinking of or a different experience?
by jraph | 2025-09-15 13:22:28+00:00
> It's a good thing if you have the time and money to buy things that are more expensive to produce.

Again with the money! We are looping here. I really don't know what you are trying to defend, but not the same thing as me for sure.

I think I will stop there, we are not having a constructive discussion. You are just opposing random stuff without answering key points.
by TonyPeakman | 2025-09-15 13:22:30+00:00
As a frontend framework, Svelte apps absolutely run in the browser.However, Svelte relies on a compile step: your authoring code is compiled ahead of time into efficient JS that runs on the client. dagger.js is contrasting itself as purely runtime, build-free — you drop in a script, no compilation needed.

So it’s less about runtime location (Svelte is client-side too) and more about how you get there.

Svelte → compile first, then run in browser

dagger.js → no compile, just run in browser
by JackC | 2025-09-15 13:22:39+00:00
> First people complain the app store has a ridiculous approvals process and people keep getting rejected unfairly. Now people complain that they are too loose and letting in shovelware. What’s it going to be?

At best a walled garden is collective bargaining -- a group of users (buyers) lock into requiring vendors to negotiate with their representative, and because their business is collectively valuable vendors have to meet higher privacy standards or whatever the users care about, which they couldn't extract if negotiating individually with huge companies like Facebook.

So, Apple will get yelled at whenever it fails to be a good agent in collective bargaining -- either by excluding quality vendors and driving up their costs, or by including low-quality vendors. Either one gives up the benefits to users of the walled garden.

An index of reliable apps is, you know, fine. An index with a business structure that ensures better collective bargaining gets interesting.
by newyankee | 2025-09-15 13:22:48+00:00
The thing is LFP or Sodium ion are both expected to have 5000+ useful cycles soon (or possibly even in production now). This means even if you use one full discharge overnight , this is like 15+ years of life of the battery, although I suspect calendar degradation will be much faster.

Higher the cycle life, lower the levelised cost of storage and this is what matters in my opinion. Best is to have some type of long term storage like a Diesel generator only for estimated 1-2 weeks of the year depending on location where it will be needed.

I feel V2G with 3 days backup and a house low power mode which can be utilised in emergencies might solve even this issue.

Oversizing solar to the extent possible for winter loads is also ideal because so far that does not seem to be the driving cost.
by thekuanysh | 2025-09-15 13:23:08+00:00
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by KaiserPro | 2025-09-15 13:23:10+00:00
> Why connect to the grid if you are self-sufficient?

I think that starts to bleed into the "pre paid meter" vs contract argument.

but practically the difference between total self sufficiency and 90% is willingness to fork out cash.

I currently have a 13kwhr battery, which covers my domestic power needs for 75% of the year. (we'll start to draw on the grid in the next few weeks.) but in the dead of winter it'll only cover 20-50% of my daily need (excluding the car)

but for car power, thats a different beast. Even though I don't commute by car, with the charging at home, I now use around the same amount of power as the uk average house. (even with solar and storage. pre electic car era. )
by cogman10 | 2025-09-15 13:23:15+00:00
The comment I replied to stated

> That person listed a lot of completely different ingredients. Did you dismiss them all out of hand for a specific reason?

I gave the specific reason to dismiss those ingredients. I took the two comments together trying to say that the boxed goods do things impossible for a home baker.

I apologize if the intent of my comment wasn't clear.
by yannyu | 2025-09-15 13:23:16+00:00
> Then the grid starts to degrade due to lack of maintenance, and the people that can't afford local storage become dependent essentially on a government maintained service.

Many services that we use in our daily lives are government maintained services, so electricity is no different than water, sewage, internet, roads, railroads, post, emergency services, public education, public health systems, trash and recycling services, parks and recreational spaces, disaster relief and response, and others.

We should absolutely ensure these services continue to be funded and maintained, because they're often not profitable to deliver. Especially to the sprawling population of the United States. That’s exactly why government support exists and should exist: to guarantee access to essential services that markets alone won’t reliably or equitably provide.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-09-15 13:23:23+00:00
You'd have to be outside to get that "benefit". Sedentary people have sunlight blocked by their roof.

Sunlight kills bacteria and viruses, stimulates vitamin D production, and has a number of emotional/cognitive benefits. Being inside 24/7 is not good for you. For most of our history we spent every daylight hour outside hunting or farming, we're adapted to this situation.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-15 13:23:38+00:00
There's a certain type of person who fantasizes about being off-grid, but the few that actually live it know the hassle and generally want to get back on if feasible.

Battery costs might go down, but the space they take up on your property costs money as well, which only gets more expensive the more urban you are.

The island of Eigg has a micro-grid. Not individual houses, a micro-grid.

The UK is going to be a wind power island not a solar power island, and definitely not an individual solar power island.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-15 13:23:50+00:00
> "With H-1B and L-1 work visas, which are harder to obtain, in short supply, Korean firms have routinely rotated engineers through 90-day ESTA entries or short-term B-1 visas to meet tight construction schedules"

As I mentioned multiple times before, this is a callous disregard of US immigration and labor laws.

VW Group has built battery factories in the South as well, and Germany has VWP priviliges as well, but they never abused the VWP or B1/2 program. Same with Japan's Panasonic

Heck, Daimler has built a similar sized gigafactory in MS without resorting to similar shenanigans to Hyundai or LG [2]

This plant that Hyundai-LG has been building has seen multiple, persistent OSHA violations [0] at a rate that is severely higher than comparable projects in the US [1].

If the news was flipped and we saw a report that Tesla is building a gigafactory in Korea and bringing in American construction workers without filing for formal work visas in Korea, that would be unacceptable. This is very much the same thing.

If this is acceptable, then why don't we completely disregard H1B regulations when hiring in the tech industry?

Can someone give me a reason why we should allow Korea a special exemption on construction labor and not the rest of the EU, Japan, Taiwan, and other allies?

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/immigration-...

[1] - https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/06/construction-deaths-injurie...

[2] - https://www.daimlertruck.com/en/newsroom/pressrelease/accele...
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-15 13:23:57+00:00
I think this is one of the key points. What crimes are they actually trying to disrupt? And surely there are less every-single-citizen-communication-dragnet ways to get that done.

If they're trying to save money on boots-on-the-ground I think they might be in for a surprise with how much manual effort it takes to find the needles in the massive haystack they want to build, and then to actually put all those needles together enough to build a case worthy of prosecution.

They think they understand step 1 and don't seem to be aware of the fact that there are quite a few more (expensive and complicated) steps that must follow to make this _actually_ useful.

I'm a little bit biased, however, as I've been on the wrong end of law enforcement's complete ineptitude as it relates to interpreting metadata into suspicion of crime. The size of the haystack they're trying to create is of such a size that the number of needles they find would become a haystack on its own.

In one way this would mean that Chat Control would be ineffective. But in the same way it would mean that a whole lot more innocent folks would have their lives turned upside down due to false positives. That is not a good solution.
by mikelabatt | 2025-09-15 13:24:12+00:00
Thanks for your insights. I did change my mind about the need for a BOM (though not about the need to be able to parse/skip it if present).

In a future where everything defaults to UTF-8 it makes sense. This is probably easier to envision in an English-only context where the jump from 7-bit ASCII to UTF-8 is cleaner.

Where I come from, UTF-8 is not always supported. Without a header (or "BOM", though we don't like the name) you don't know in what encoding a text file was meant to be (re-)saved as when it was created. My example of an empty file was meant to illustrate that. But leaning on the Utopian side, I too shall put more energy towards all apps supporting UTF-8 :)
by ableal | 2025-09-15 13:25:09+00:00
>> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence

Neal Asher did pretty well with his Polity universe. Besides AIs with some capacity for playful violence (Agent Cormac thread, but always there), we also get crablike aliens (the Prador war) and very weird biology (in particular the Spatterjay water world).
by amelius | 2025-09-15 13:25:27+00:00
This was a question that I thought was interesting enough to test ChatGPT with.

Surprisingly, it gave an answer along the lines of the parent comment.

However, it seems it didn't figure this out by itself but it says:

> It’s widely known in bioinformatics that “one-line Fasta” files compress much better with LZ-based algorithms, and this is discussed in forums, papers, and practical guides on storing genomic data.
by gnfargbl | 2025-09-15 13:25:32+00:00
Something that isn't spoken about enough is that in developed Western countries, grids are actually significantly oversized due to reductions in electricity usage over time [1]. That link says 16% over, but the peak demand in the UK in 2024 was actually only 45MW [2], which I make more like a 30% reduction from the all-time peak.

Because of this, it feels like we should already have enough transmission capacity in a decent part of the network to cope with a re-organisation of where the sources and sinks are placed. Yes, we might need to do some work in the last mile, especially if V2G takes off, but things aren't nearly as bad as one might naively assume.

[1] https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero-sto...

[2] https://www.neso.energy/news/britains-electricity-explained-...
by lordleft | 2025-09-15 13:25:45+00:00
This reminds me of the thought of Isaiah Berlin, political philosopher and historian of ideas; utopian philosophies often conclude that there if there is a "right" way to live, i.e. a maximally rational way of life, then utopia will consist of everyone converging on this lifestyle. For a certain type of person, this monistic vision of life annihilates pluralism, optionality, and genuine diversity. Berlin himself espoused value pluralism, the idea that there are an infinite number of fundamental human values and ideals for which once can be deeply committed but can also be at conflict and mutually exclusive with one another.
by clemensnk | 2025-09-15 13:25:59+00:00
Here at the computer science department in Aarhus, some of our professors and our head of department are doing their best to try to talk some sense into our politicians. See this post (apologies for linking to linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cs-au-dk_dkpol-eupol-krypteri...

Diego has been part of putting together this open letter from 500+ cryptography and cybersecurity researchers: https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025
by nkozyra | 2025-09-15 13:26:47+00:00
> Dunno, almost all of the people I know anywhere in the ML space are on the C and Rust end of the spectrum.

I wish this were broadly true.

But there's too much legacy Python sunk cost for most people though. Just so much inertia behind Python for people to abandon it and try to rebuild an extensive history of ML tooling.

I think ML will fade away from Python eventually but right now it's still everywhere.
by theutopian | 2025-09-15 13:26:57+00:00
I've always found the approximation of a circle to the limit as n -> inf of a polygon of n equal sides to be interesting. I do have a question though: is it possible to extend this method of exploration to reconcile the irrational property of pi? Because I'm somewhat discomforted with being satisfied with approximating our "best pi" to 3.14.
by ionwake | 2025-09-15 13:27:00+00:00
Denmark, is a great country, however even I notice problems here as there are in other countries. Corruption and poor decisions. For example a local government office has a brand new facade finish ( amongst other work) that has taken about 4 years to do, its an entire building. Tall buildings are banned in Denmark so its actually surprisingly imposing. Trouble is, they did not use the tax funds to improve the local school for children. I am not joking, its a literal portacabin. Yes there are normal schools in buildings, but the main primary school for this village, ( and bear in mind this is denmark where most things are still carefully constructed and beautiful), is 2 literal portacabins / part of a small modern house, in dire need of upgrading.

Im not saying the new government building is saurons tower, but there was no need to divert funds to improve it, it was just one of the buildings in a non descript village. I wouldnt normally care, but I know someone who goes to the primary school, and apparently it was a big upset that the funds for it went to this government building instead.

Before anyone thinks I am being mean to DK, a very similar thing happened in the UK, the local library that used to be in a large building got moved to essentially a backwater dark room in a terrible part of town, and the main building converted to bigger nicer officer for the local government.

Its a problem I am seeing all over europe.

Just sat badly with me.

EDIT > WTF everyone always so touchy. Everyone just relax ok this is a public forum.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-09-15 13:27:18+00:00
Same thing that does now, trust.

The proposal is for the platforms to implement measures to scan for harmful material on devices.

The platforms already control the code you are running and have access to the decrypted communication in your devices.

You trust them to not extract it and use it against you. The same will be true either way.

The real danger is that the harmful material can suddenly be redefined to include things we now consider lawful like political dissent.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-15 13:27:44+00:00
The anti-fascist stuff is a inside joke that groypers use. Nick Fuentes recently called Trump a "Jewish fascist" on his show.

The rest of your comment is pretty bad faith and uninformed. "Painting Kirk as extremely right wing" as if he isn't, lol? Again, I don't think he deserved to die. The quick jump to conclusions by Trump and right wing media is reckless and will lead to more unnecessary killings.
by shadowfiend | 2025-09-15 13:27:57+00:00
Apple and Google and any app store provider have the ideal goal of zero friction for real, valuable apps and infinite friction for bad, scam apps. They can never hit that ideal, but when you're getting rage from both ends it's likely that you are in a place on the continuum that is far below ideal—you make it a huge pain for real, valuable apps and too easy for bad, scam apps. This appears to be where the Apple store is, at least, and it's an unfortunate place to be. They may be doing their best, but it sounds like their best has some pretty significant room to improve.
by CodingJeebus | 2025-09-15 13:28:08+00:00
Both can be true. I've done mostly web, but I now work for a company that ships both iOS and Android apps and the cost of dealing with both Apple and Google app store compliance/review is not negligible.

At the same time, I'm sure they're both getting blasted with knockoff apps that find ways to stay just within the letter of the law, if not the spirit of it.

> I wonder if I made an app that was simply a front-end for the actual app store if it would be approved.

It would not, as the primary purpose of this entire enterprise is to maintain total control of all aspects of the market, including discoverability.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-15 13:28:12+00:00
Interdependence takes into account the Universe for each thing or idea. There is no such thing as probabilistic in a healthy mind. A probabilistic approach is unhealthy.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38579270/

edit: looking into this, this is likely in terms of the brain and arbitrariness highly paradoxical even oxymoronic

>>isn’t learning the probabilistic relationships between tokens an attempt to approximate those exact semantic relationships between words?

This is really a poor manner of resolving the conduit metaphor condition to arbitary signals, to falsify them as specific, which is always impossible. This is simple linguistic via animal signal science. If you can't duplicate any response with a high degreee of certainty from output, then the signal is only valid in the most limited time-space condition and yet it is still arbitrary. CS has no understanding of this.
by dsr_ | 2025-09-15 13:28:21+00:00
You can go all the way through the data provenance:

- do you have all the posters for all movies? Probably not.

- do you have well-preserved examples of those posters? Many are going to be sun- or age- faded.

- do you have good scans of the posters that pre-date digital originals?

and so on.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-15 13:29:00+00:00
Most chiefdoms, proto-monarchies and monarchies in human history have had totally inalienable rights for a select few people and it's arguable to say that some states in the world today continue that tradition.

A more grounded criticism, however, is that in the modern world the range of lifestyles and careers available to most free adults is circumscribed only by their wealth, health, the laws of nature and the ability of other humans to enforce prohibitions. Competition from existing political units already exists, but nobody has it guaranteed that if they formed a new polity it would merely be a kayfabe contained inside one or more existing states.

(I think the Culture doing this is a good thing, incidentally, but it does count as removing #1.)