MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floatrock | 2025-09-15 13:36:45+00:00
This doom-loop is often repeated, but reality is far more complicated.

Very few people go fully off-grid, reality is people don't want that. Cost/benefit just isn't there unless you live off in the woods.

So instead, market structures react when penetration % becomes non-neglible. First you start seeing things like fixed-fees (minimum prices to maintain a grid connection, or "first x kWh are included"). And then you start seeing like what's in California with NEM3: the grid-export prices drop to "we don't want your excess solar" so people are incentivized to buy batteries. But because batteries make a system more complicated and expensive, people buy smaller systems overall.

So the "too much solar creates a disconnection spiral and the system falls apart" thing is a bit of fear-mongering. The system adapts, the changes in pricing create different cost/benefit ratios, and if nothing else, new AI datacenters will gobble up any power that doesn't need to flow to neighborhoods.
by pacificmaelstrm | 2025-09-15 13:36:46+00:00
This is an engineer perspective.

Reading/studying is only really about learning what knowledge exists so you can find it and employ it later in the service of building something.

Trying to memorize many specific details or formulas or algorithms at the expense of a broader knowledge map is suboptimal.

But for science, medicine etc this may not be the case.
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:36:56+00:00
If you already hate them asking no questions is fine - you already know you wouldn't accept the job if offered so you should just say that and ask how quick the interview can end (sometimes they have quotas to fill and since you already have blocked off the time it costs you almost nothing to stay and can be a polite way to help someone else thus doing a good deed).

If you are inclined to like them enough to accept a job you need to ask questions! You need to be sure your inclination is correct. The worst case is you accept a job and realize after a month it is a bad job - all your other leads have gone cold and unemployment won't like you quitting now (check your local rules for if you can collect and if so what, but beware that you may have to keep working while looking for a job which is hard)

Of course there are different situations. If you are signing a 1 month contract you sill are watching your other leads anyway in that month. (or they are paying you enough to take 3-6 months off looking for the next contract)
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-09-15 13:37:11+00:00
I'm sure it's true and all. But I've been hearing the same claim about all those tools uv is intended to replace, for years now. And every time I try to run any of those, as someone who's not really a python coder, but can shit out scripts in it if needed and sometimes tries to run python software from github, it's been a complete clusterfuck.

So I guess what I'm wondering is, are you a python guy, or are you more like me? because for basically any of these tools, python people tell me "tool X solved all my problems" and people from my own cohort tell me "it doesn't really solve anything, it's still a mess".

If you are one of us, then I'm really listening.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-09-15 13:37:12+00:00
Rossman was complicit in harassment, harassment (particularly at this scale, driven by their significant viewer base) that would be harmful to literally anyone who would be the target of it. strcat was upset, understandably, and privately communicated that to Rossman who then proceeds to cynically turn it into something to generate more views for his channel.

Apologise for what?
by imchillyb | 2025-09-15 13:37:15+00:00
Older generations died. Some generations died so often that we use words like ‘population decline,’ so the survivors don’t feel so badly about surviving.

As for finding ways through, I don’t believe that for even a moment. Why? Because we’re still struggling with those same issues.

There is no out. There is no through. Keep that can kicking down the road. That’s what we do.
by _kb | 2025-09-15 13:37:18+00:00
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140747-laws-of-mathema...

All Australians now live with the Assistance and Access Act 2018, where yes in fact if you use the illegal math, receive a TCN and do not comply… straight to jail.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-15 13:37:37+00:00
> Interesting. My criteria for hiring is the opposite of this, and I wouldn't have it any other way. If someone is technically great but combative in an interview, they get a "strong no" from me.

Well exactly, but that’s “vibes” in the view of an extremely objective hiring criteria that tries to eliminate anyone’s subjective feelings about the candidate.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-15 13:37:54+00:00
> Humans are not supposed to be drinking bovine milk.

Humans aren't "supposed" to eat anything. You think we're supposed to eat flour or sausage or arugula or lentils?

But because we like to survive, we eat anything and everything that gives us nutrition and helps us live. Also, there are pastoral tribes like the Maasai in East Africa that historically have lived on bovine milk as a staple food. Is that authentic and traditional enough for you that you might no longer consider it "strange", but rather as traditional as it gets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Cuisine
by peepee1982 | 2025-09-15 13:38:13+00:00
I agree, but this does not work for people who are unable to get into a peaceful and calm mood ever, and they aren't even "trusting" their gut, their view of the world is completely distorted by it.

Again, not disagreeing. But if you're suffering from (C)PTSD, that advice might backfire by packing on even more feelings of shame onto your shoulders.
by daveguy | 2025-09-15 13:38:29+00:00
You are completely missing the point because you are pushing an agenda. Go back and read a little more carefully. And see if you can comprehend this concept: when there's a 60% consensus on a topic and everyone votes for it, that topic wins overwhelmingly. There are a lot of those issues like that in the Trumpty Dumpty clown show. That's why they're trying to choose their voters with gerrymandering.

Damn Skippy, people in Alabama and Mississippi are going to be voting more blue in 2026 and 2028.
by data-ottawa | 2025-09-15 13:38:56+00:00
Slightly off topic, but I’m loving comparing all these sub discussions to programming.

The issues of boxes changing and dependency management, and this thread is rough analogy to coders who just glue prepackaged stuff together or overuse of packages.

I don’t know if there’s any real takeaway but I had never thought of programming problems in this way — things always felt a bit more abstract than cooking is.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-15 13:39:04+00:00
> There are apparently no sociopaths – Culture has to recruit an outsider when they need one

Eh, I mean Gurgeh was borderline, and a number of other Culture characters are extremely maladjusted (particularly the drones, actually).

> But the existence of post-scarcity in-vitro development means you could raise an army of clones if you wanted, and would be free to isolate them and indoctrinate similar beliefs. The fact that grabby citizens haven’t overrun Culture shows that these actions are blocked, either tacitly or overtly.

Or just that that would be an absolutely _bizarre_ thing to do and that someone unstable enough to do it probably wouldn't last long.

> and would be free to isolate them and indoctrinate similar beliefs

IIRC that sort of thing _wouldn't_ be allowed; the Culture was pretty big on individual rights. You wouldn't go to jail, but you would get a drone that would stop you from doing it.

> or is interested in simulating sentient life.

There are at least two storylines about that and significant discussion of the ethics (the Culture at best doesn't approve and may see it as a crime).

> The Minds are perfectly capable of creating avatars which would be more effective than any of the characters shown.

Again, it's explicitly mentioned at least once that the minds struggle with doing extremely nasty stuff (which makes sense; there's definitely _some_ alignment going on), and that SC is a tool for that.

I don't disagree that you can read the Culture as a dystopia (though it's a lot less obvious a reading than it would be for, say the Star Trek Federation, which could easily be read as a military junta with good PR), but most of their points aren't particularly compelling.
by poppobit | 2025-09-15 13:39:06+00:00
Japan’s convenience store business thrives on efficiency through automation, risk reduction through franchising, and highly optimized delivery networks in dense urban areas.

In the US, I think this model would face significant challenges. That said, if the same workflow could be fully adapted and implemented in the US, it could become very successful — but it would be a difficult path. Personally, I’m quite skeptical, though success would be huge if it happens.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-15 13:39:23+00:00
This sort of politician is the reason people turn to the far right.

They see the clowns in power from the right and the left and either decide to completely removes themselves from the political scene or decide that blowing up the whole system is better. And who can blame them?

To me the fact that Chat Control is even entertained is basically a huge betrayal of all the people who want to live in a democracy.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-15 13:39:27+00:00
I think I'm a slow thinker. And that's because I have ADHD and a number of learning disabilities including dyslexia and dyscalculia, and also short term memory problems. It takes me twice as long to do things as normal people. I'm smart, but if the game is "do this thing quickly and accurately" then my results will make me seem very dumb. I did manage to get a Ph.D. but only because it's the kind of thing that doesn't require you to be fast and accurate, but slow and deliberate. I can do that very well. But then people see the Ph.D. and think that means I'm a fast thinker, and they are often very disappointed I am not.

So you're right, I do self limit by labeling myself as a slow thinker, but I think it's for the best because otherwise people overestimate me and end up disappointed.
by Jensson | 2025-09-15 13:39:51+00:00
> You may have ADHD

Don't think this is related to ADHD, I have very serious ADHD but I have no issue keeping up in conversations I am interested in.

ADHD is about where you can put your energy / attention, not if you are fast or slow when you focus on something. If you are very fast when you are interested then you aren't a slow thinker, if you struggle keeping up when you aren't interested due to lack of focus then the issue isn't being a slow thinker its the lack of focus.
by tucnak | 2025-09-15 13:40:04+00:00
Are you well-read enough into the platform so that you can attest to it requiring no manual code optimisation for high-performance datapaths? I'm only familiar with Apple Silicon-specific code in llama.cpp, and not really familiar with either Accelerate[0] or MLX[1] specifically. Have they really cracked it at homogenous computing so that you could use a single description of computation, and have it emit efficient code for whatever target in the SoC? Or are you merely referring to the full memory capacity/bandwidth being available to CPU in normal operation?

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate

[1]: https://ml-explore.github.io/mlx/build/html/usage/quick_star...
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 13:40:31+00:00
20,000 daily cycles if 55 years. 10,000 daily cycles is 27 years. The expected usage case for these batteries is near daily usage.

I hadn't really thought about thermal tech in such extreme terms until your comment, but to me it appears to be the tape storage of our times. There will always be a fair amount of infrastructure hidden that almost nobody knows about, but it's going to be dwarfed in active usage by HDDs or SDDs.

The tech advantages really are that big for batters and other solid state energy tech over the moving parts thermal variety. Thermal tech hasn't had an upgrade like LTO-6 (or is it 7 now) and is pretty much at the end of its possible engineered capabilities, but batteries are just barely getting started on what they are capable of.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-15 13:40:36+00:00
Some people have no idea how to diet or exercise, or have no idea that they're overweight, or have specialised conditions that make it hard to follow generic advice. These people might find it really valuable to receive individualised advice and education from their doctor.

Also this would often be in the context of the patient coming to the doctor with a complaint. If the doctor says "trying eating healthily and exercising, then come back in a month for a follow-up", some might just do nothing but many people will actually try it.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-09-15 13:40:37+00:00
Sure, the need for backpressure occurs anyway, regardless of batching optimization.

Couldn't find any specific rate limit numbers besides the one mentioned here[0] from 2019:

> Up to five million requests to the registry per month are considered acceptable at this time

[0]: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/187698412060/acceptible-use.html
by ddoeth | 2025-09-15 13:40:39+00:00
While they can go in the organic waste bins, they still get sorted out at the end because they don't degrade fast enough.

Study from Australia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X2... Article from California: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-a... German Trash Company: https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall
by latexr | 2025-09-15 13:40:49+00:00
So was House MD (well researched). Or Mr Robot. Or Silicon Valley. Heck, even Futurama did its research to the point they proved a new mathematical theorem for a joke. But being entertaining is always the priority for a TV show. Sure, maybe talk with the creators and get their inputs and insights, but don’t base your opinions on policies so heavily on simply watching the show. They’re called “dramas” for a reason.
by dudefeliciano | 2025-09-15 13:41:00+00:00
i dislike the phrase too but the tone of the comment was pretty shitty, apart from being off topic.

Also to think that it's the phrase "consume content" making us mindless consumer seems way off to me. What would you call most of the videos on youtube/tiktok/instagram? Art, Documentaries, Didactic aid? Perhaps "content" is the best way to refer to them.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-09-15 13:41:03+00:00
Well, 10 TB divided by 1 Gbps is ~22 hours, and there are multiple log providers with many shards (my scan was including data from certificates that had expired at that time).

It would still be feasible to build a local database and keep it updated (with way less than 1 Gbps), but initial ingestion would be weeks at 1 Gbps, and I'd need the storage for it.

For most hobbyists not looking to spend a fortune on rented servers/cloud, it's out of reach already.
by alluro2 | 2025-09-15 13:41:07+00:00
Eschewing responsibility through these kinds of "tricks", where the person obviously thinks themselves so above everyone else that they can make them idiots to their face, makes my blood boil.

It's always either public "servants" in power, or the rich people, putting themselves outside of the rules. If you are an elected official, and make a stunt like this, it should be grounds for immediate dismissal, IMO. But, alas, nowadays these kinds of things are so minor and irrelevant, in the sea of ridiculously horrible stuff they do.

It's at least refreshing that there are still places, like the Netherlands in this case, where there are some (even when it's surface-level) repercussions of such behavior.
by Pooge | 2025-09-15 13:41:23+00:00
Okay, sure it's been studied for longer but until very recently it wasn't really in the debate—or rather, in the average Joe's mind. Go to a nutritionist and they will tell you to eat less than you consume despite it being much more complex.

So I maintain my point. In fact, most of HN, which I consider educated, probably doesn't know about that. I myself heard about it very recently.
by ta12653421 | 2025-09-15 13:41:26+00:00
I was involved in 3D back then wenn Irrlicht & Co had some traction:

Todays graphics engine look completely different than the first flexibel pipelines around 2002-2005, and the rise of AI for usage during rendering will change the tech paradigms further (for the younger ones: In 2001, NVidia announced the Geforce1, we had 1 pixel shader and 1 vertex shader :-D LOL)
by cstrasen | 2025-09-15 13:41:40+00:00
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by philipallstar | 2025-09-15 13:41:43+00:00
> Not every non-citizen doing a job in a foreign country does so illegally

Obviously.

> Like in this case.

I think the contention is that an ESTA is not a suitable visa for this sort of activity. How is what you're saying disproving that?

> What's wrong with foreigners, legally, with visums issued, building factories that then employ locals?

Nothing.
by cahaya | 2025-09-15 13:42:12+00:00
Is it me or is the link only opening as JSON?

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by fcpguru | 2025-09-15 13:42:43+00:00
"all the work is investigation and debugging" - Yes! Exactly you can ask the AI a bunch of questions first and really dig into what the codebase currently does. Then spend the time crafting that prompt that explains how to surgically do what needs to be done. If you are watching it every min like a hawk you are doing it wrong. You need to watch it more like a VERY smart junior dev and trust but verify. I'm not saying it's easy to get good at these new skill sets. But simply throwing your hands up and saying "I'll just walk everywhere vs using a bicycle" isn't a strategy that's going to work well.
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by baxuz | 2025-09-15 13:43:00+00:00
I've had little success with multiple CBT therapists as it's basically "have you tried not feeling bad" with extra steps.

"Things are only as bad as we perceive them to be" leading up to "have you tried reframing that and finding something positive in it", and "have you tried not thinking about that".

If I need dissociation and self-delusion, there are substances that are a far more impactful option.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-15 13:43:29+00:00
Impeachment is not part of the normal checks and balances. It's intended as a means to be able to remove a President who starts acting against even his own party's interests, as it requires a super-majority in the Senate, which has always been understood to mean that generally a significant chunk of your own party will need to vote against you. Consequently, literally no President has ever been convicted by the Senate, though Nixon probably would have been - and that's a good example of the scenario where impeachment is intended, as his own personal actions compromised not only the integrity of his office, but also greatly negatively affected his own party. House-only impeachments are irrelevant and inconsequential gestures when there's no chance of conviction in the Senate.

For the normal balance of powers - the legislative makes laws, the executive implements them, and the judiciary ensures the latter matches the intent of the former as well as that they remain constitutional. The legislative can undermine the judiciary or the executive by passing new laws. The executive can undermine the legislative with vetos, and the judiciary by appointments. And the judiciary can undermine the legislative by deeming the laws unconstitutional, or the executive by deeming their enforcement unlawful.

No branch is particularly superior to the others. The executive has the strength of being headed by a single person, but that is tempered by it having relatively less power than the other branches.
Show HN: Magicnode – Open-source AI app builder (like Canva for AI apps)
by zuhaib-rasheed | 2025-09-15 13:44:01+00:00
Hey HN,

We just open-sourced Magicnode , a visual builder for AI apps. It lets you create AI workflows by dragging and connecting nodes — kind of like Canva for AI apps.

What it does

Visual drag-and-drop interface for building AI workflows

Connect LLMs, APIs, and UI components without code

Export/share apps as micro-apps

Runs locally or in the cloud

Why open source?

Most AI builders are closed or proprietary. We wanted a flexible, community-driven platform where developers can:

Extend with custom nodes

Self-host without vendor lock-in

Share and reuse AI apps

Try it

Repo: https://github.com/magicnode-open/magicnode-core

Quickstart: git clone → npm install → npm run dev

We’d love feedback from HN:

What’s missing for you to use this in real projects?

Which integrations/nodes would be most useful?

How do you think we should grow the community around it?

Thanks for checking it out!