MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 17:38:11+00:00
It is not about blackouts but about the risk induced by a nuclear plant in a warzone.

That's what International Atomic Energy Agency's (UN agency in charge of civilian nuclear) boss said about it: "Director General Grossi reiterated his deep concern about the apparent increased use of drones near nuclear power plants since early this year, saying such weaponry posed a clear risk to nuclear safety and security"

"any military attack on a nuclear site – with or without drones – jeopardizes nuclear safety and must stop immediately"

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-303-iae...
by obbie3 | 2025-09-13 17:39:10+00:00
Learning is a nontrivial skill even though it has historically been treated as such. It requires an embodied understanding of concepts from basic cognitive psychology, expertise theory, behavioral-affective psychology, metacognition, and more. Until people stop with the platitudes of "learning how to learn is important" and start teaching/training the subject directly as a skill that must be acquired, this will not change.

Simply showing a learner a few slides on spaced retrieval will not cut it.
by relaxing | 2025-09-13 17:39:29+00:00
Alright, so continue the exercise. In the image in the article, what is the narrative for the people in the foreground? We can’t see where they are coming from or where they are, and their actions don’t seem well defined.

Then in the middle there is a train station(?) where the narrative is also absent or muddled. The people arrived by train to do what?

I would argue the tight shot of the mountain and house is the best capture, because it tells a story of a beautiful place where someone lives.
by singlepaynews | 2025-09-13 17:39:58+00:00
I’m reading your summary versus the other article here, but it seems like for writing code, Claude would be the clear winner?

When chat breaks apart for me, it’s almost always because the context window has been overflown and it is no longer remembering some important feature implemented earlier in the chat; it seems based on your description that Claude is optimizing to not do that.
by bubblethink | 2025-09-13 17:39:59+00:00
I don't see the contradiction here. The game is as follows: Company has to make a good faith recruitment effort. Not an exhaustive search, not beyond reasonable doubt. Just good faith which follows the preponderance of evidence standard. This is by design. The government doesn't believe that it can win on the merits, and hence they settle. The settlement gives everyone what they want.
by ac29 | 2025-09-13 17:40:09+00:00
> I'm a 100% vibe-coder. AI/CS is not my field. I've made plenty of neat apps that are useful to me.

This describes me pretty well too, though I do have a tiny bit of programming experience. I wrote maybe 5000 lines of code unassisted between 1995-2024. I didn't enjoy it for the most part, nor did I ever feel I was particularly good at it. On the more complex stuff I made, it might take several weeks of effort to produce a couple hundred lines of working code.

Flash forward to 2025 and I co-wrote (with LLMs) a genuinely useful piece of back office code to automate a logistics problem I was previously solving via a manual process in a spreadsheet. It would hardly be difficult for most people here to write this program, its just making some API calls, doing basic arithmetic, and displaying the results in a TUI. But I took a crack at it several times on my own and unfortunately between the API documentation being crap and my own lack of experience, I never got to the point where I could even make a single API call. LLMs got me over that hump and greatly assisted with writing the rest of the codebase, though I did write some of it by hand and worked through some debugging to solve issues in edge cases. Unlike OP, I do think I reasonably well understand what >90% of the code is doing.

> This isn't a 20% more productive feeling. It's productivity beyond what I will ever do on my own, given this is not my field.

So yeah, to the people here saying the above sentiment is BS - its not. For people who have never worked in programming or even in tech, these tools can be immensely useful.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-13 17:41:11+00:00
> Former Magnum and NatGeo photographer David Alan Harvey can get by with a cell phone.

I reluctantly joined them last year after selling my DSLR and lens collection.

I enjoyed my many DSLR years, but recently its become problematic :

1. The whole personal security thing, the world has changed and not in a good way. The number of places you can comfortably walk around with $$$ worth of camera kit in a bag ... LET ALONE take the camera out of the bag without needing eyes at the back of your head is decreasing FAST. 2. I got sick and tired of being subjected to secondary screening at airports in certain parts of the world where the security guys are not used to seeing a bag of DSLR kit and/or it being a country where they are "sensitive" about what long-lenses can be (theoretically) used for. 3. The whole insurance thing has become a pain the backside. Premiums constantly increasing, but more importantly, so do all the get-out clauses which means you struggle to find a policy that deals with the reality of traveling with cameras.

So, yeah, previously I would sneer at the iPhone brigade. Now I've joined their ranks.
by SilentM68 | 2025-09-13 17:41:19+00:00
Reminds me of thinkgeek.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkGeek

They used to sell gadgets and other uncommon but interesting stuff before they disappeared.

This is actually a good idea, and it could generate income if done correctly:

https://anycrap.shop/product/pocket-sized-old-fart-reseller https://anycrap.shop/product/a-storyteller-that-can-only-tel... https://anycrap.shop/product/beautiful-blond-female-indiana-... https://anycrap.shop/product/beautiful-blond-female-los-ange...

Nice but way too adictive :)

Best, Sol Roth
by dingnuts | 2025-09-13 17:41:57+00:00
oh you agree to do it but you laugh, literally laugh, at their deadline. and you say, you can fire me but that's not going to get your software done on time. in fact it will delay it.

they shut up. it's done when it's done.

I've done this many, many times. Oh you promised it by the end of the week and didn't ask me? lol, that sounds like a YOU problem.
by yannyu | 2025-09-13 17:42:35+00:00
> When I see the term social media, I associate it with one way relationships

I agree entirely with this. I think that it's helpful to remember that "social media" arose to differentiate itself from "traditional media", the social piece is a descriptor not a function. Traditional media has been one-way, and the goal of corporations has been to make social media largely one-way as well but to make it feel like it's not. Social media exists mostly to serve influencers, brands, and celebrities and all of us are eyeballs to monetize.
by pydry | 2025-09-13 17:42:42+00:00
Minimal assistance? We sent half of our inventories. European capitals are stripped bare of air defense missiles.

>I think it was more hoping Russia would behave like a normal civilised country

Theyre acting like the countries who are currently supporting a Nazi-level genocide were trying to set up a string of offensive military bases along their most vulnerable border.

This is why they were only sanctioned by western countries. The global south that faced the full brunt of western colonialism is better able to appreciate how unpredictable and threatening we actually are.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-13 17:44:15+00:00
I was involved in the nuclear industry in the 90's.

Why impose externalities on others when solar and wind are so cheap and less risky? It seems like proponents fall for technological aspirationalism without considering pragmatic consequences and risks of shoveling enormous sums of money for unnecessary risks and inefficient allocations of capital because it's seems just barely unobtainable or blocked by "them" when it's simply economically unviable.
by tcfhgj | 2025-09-13 17:45:08+00:00
> the problem with heat pump is require quite well isolated building to make it efficient. Also after talking with a friend he had to change all radiators in his parents home since it didn't work well with previous old one he had.

no, it doesn't require good isolation. Good isolation is beneficial, like for type of heating.

Radiators don't have an effect on isolation. However, modern radiators usually have a way higher surface area, which allows heating rooms with lower water temperature.

Heat pumps are more efficient if the difference between source and target temperature is closer.
by borroka | 2025-09-13 17:45:10+00:00
I will probably write a book on this topic because there is not enough material in English. But the practice is fairly simple overall and only requires time and a positive attitude. Since there is a somatic response, it is always easy to tell if it is “working", especially for the "lower" exercises.

Originally, it had to be taught by MDs, according to Dr. Schultz--the inventor of the method--and his followers, but that ship has long sailed.

It is fairly easy to find a copy of Karl Rosa's book “Autogenic Training”, a good starting point, and Luthe's in-depth multi-volume analysis of autogenic training, though I would only recommend the latter to the most avid enthusiasts.
by convolvatron | 2025-09-13 17:45:54+00:00
author Mulkey responds to a similar question in the comments:

Aaron O'Dea, told me in an email that the upwelling has been "as predictable as clockwork" for at least 40 years of detailed data used in the study. They have less detailed data showing that it goes back at least 80 years. And while this doesn't mean it never vanished before, he said they can trace the the upwelling's impact on coastal ecology and humans for 11,000 years.
by jabl | 2025-09-13 17:46:07+00:00
> That's... not the way the burden of proof works here. You don't do non-proliferation analysis by only worrying about it after someone has proliferated.

Well, let's put it this way. If you want to create HEU you can either start from natural uranium, which is significantly easier to come by and isn't horribly radioactive. Or then you start from spent fuel, which is under IAEA safeguards (for other reasons), is very radioactive and thus very cumbersome, expensive and slow to deal with. Now which is more likely?

Not saying creating HEU from spent fuel is impossible, it's just a stupid way of going about it, and spent fuel already being covered by IAEA safeguards for other reasons so it's probably also going to be easier to detect such a hypothetical clandestine nuclear program.

> I think if you want to announce that reactors are useless for building bombs you need to provide a cite.

If you read my original response I explicitly mentioned that you need a reactor if you want to create a U233 or Pu based bomb. So I have no idea where you get such a notion from.

> Certainly nuclear non-proliferation work by real professionals does include the existence of a domestic nuclear industry.

True, but again not a point I have argued against.
by pembrook | 2025-09-13 17:46:07+00:00
Yes the alternatives for the seasonal storage problem are...fossil fuels. So obviously if we can't solve the seasonal problem yet with batteries, current battery tech isn't capable enough to make clean energy a reality without Nuclear.

Also, China's energy mix is irrelevant for Europe, the two regions have vastly different climates, population distributions, and government.

Europe has much bigger seasonal gaps in the winter for things like solar; Hydro is huge in China due to massive river systems like the Yangtze, but basically tapped out in Europe; Wind is a huge opportunity in China but only works Offshore in Europe; Europe can't run cross-continent UHV grid systems like China due to beaurocratic impossibility; etc. etc.
by bostik | 2025-09-13 17:46:22+00:00
This would make a good real-life gift: https://anycrap.shop/product/cherry-chocolate-piano

As much as the site is an incredible outlet for absurd creativity, some of the creations would actually work as small batch orders. The octopus hoodie is a great example, and I would not be surprised if there were people willing to get different variations of it. (Lovecraftian flavour, anyone?)

OP: well done, you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
by Aperocky | 2025-09-13 17:46:50+00:00
> You’re not going to out-exercise a 1000 calorie excess every day.

I spend 4 hours on my phone every day per recent record. If I spend 2 of those outdoor then I'll have that 1000 calories.

It's realistically a choice.

I know this because I used to average 1500 active calories and around 2 hour of zone 2 training before my baby was born. Now I'm more time squeezed but looking at what I'm doing every day it's still a discipline issue. Getting back there though, goal is cracking 150 miles of running this month.
by garciasn | 2025-09-13 17:46:51+00:00
> One thing we'll know for sure is you're going to have to continually learn ... throughout your career," he said.

This has been the case for literally my entire career and I assume most of the professional world for the last half century.

Technology is continually reshaping industries and while many eschew learning and adopting, those who embrace it are the ones who succeed best IME.
by user1999919 | 2025-09-13 17:47:17+00:00
as much as ai has been a boon to my own development i writhe at the thought of middle managers oversold on the promise of ai and its output, making unrealistic requests and demanding 'MORE PRODUCTIVITY' at the greater cost of making more work in the future. Diluting code-as-craft, and commodifying it down to shovels of coal into the furnace.
by snuxoll | 2025-09-13 17:47:18+00:00
Thing is, this has nothing to do with UX or even AI at the end of the day. Over the years I have adjusted the way I handle interviews when I'm on a hiring panel to focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and lifelong learning above all else - because they are the #1 indicator that a hire is going to be successful in a position, even if that means they need a lot more training before they become productive.

I can teach somebody who finished a 6-month coding bootcamp Go, all the internal tooling, go over the business with them, etc. if they have these skills and end up with a productive mid-level engineer who gets shit done in a few years. What I can't teach is the drive and ability to learn, that's a much longer process and if you don't already have it then I'm not prepared to develop it.

Hell, outside of looking for signs of obvious bullshit I stopped giving a shit about resumes. Your work history does me no good, your education doesn't matter to me, and your references are useless beyond making sure you aren't straight up lying to me about your employment history. Every single time I have hired somebody who has 5 years of "experience" working with technologies I bullet pointed on a JD they ended up fumbling the moment they had to do something new. Doing leetcode, pair programming sessions, take-home assignments, whiteboarding system designs, etc. for SWE positions did nothing to really improve this; for SRE/DevOps roles I tried trivia questions (how are containers implemented - like what kernel technologies do they use and what do they do, how would you go about investigating why a service is consuming 100% CPU time), throwing them at broken VM's and more take-home assignments.

AI tools only make this skillset more important - I can throw Junie, Claude Code, or Copilot and small task and end up with...an implementation. But they still fuck up, constantly, and yet again, anything that's not already been done, regularly, requires a lot of guidance from an engineer in the loop. And with the god damned death of the web thanks to AI slop being posted anywhere, the ability to find answers and reason through problems is only going to become more important when these tools fail miserably for the third time in a row.
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 17:47:30+00:00
> doubling every decade

Uranium deposits mined under the right conditions can supply the current stock for at best two centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Peak_uranium

To extend this beyond that, we must hope for a revolutionary production process (pursued in vain for decades: breeders...), the ability to exploit less promising uranium deposits, thus tolerating increased emissions and costs, or the discovery of a large deposit.

Hoping for such a discovery is risky because intensive prospecting began at the end of the Second World War (the quest for nuclear weapons), and the rapid and sharp rise in the price of uranium (a bubble) that occurred around 2007 triggered a massive investment in prospecting, the results of which (15%) are very inadequate.

Therefore, multiplying the stock by five would leave at best 40 years of uranium certainly available under current conditions, and would therefore be an inept investment (one needs to amortize the plant).

Moreover there are geostrategic considerations: many nations don't have any reserve not want to have to buy uranium (creating a dependency) or technical expertise.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-13 17:48:13+00:00
You mean people's brains selectively enhance the contrast of the mountains so he's trying to reproduce that perception?

In these cases, it's clearly not to replicate what the photographer saw with his unaided eyes because he wouldn't have been able to see such detail so far away. Is it to replicate what he saw through the viewfinder?

A lot of photographers here. Do you guys impose some kind of personal restrictions on what types of processing or instruments you use to make it "honest" or not-cheating? How does that work?
by voidhorse | 2025-09-13 17:48:21+00:00
I've seen this too. In particular there seems to be a huge dividing line between systems research stemming from the physical-mathematical heritage of formal dynamical systems, and the other line mostly stemming from everything Wiener did with cybernetics (and some others who were contemporaneous with Wiener). Both sides can be profitably informed by the other in various ways.
by Grollicus | 2025-09-13 17:48:41+00:00
I've tried the Kolbenrückholfeder of your shops non-ai-predecessors fame: https://etel-tuning.eu/produkt/tuning-kolbenruckholfeder/

Didn't work out that well, sadly. At first it gave me a greek pillars, then when trying english translations it at least gave me some springs.

It knew the https://anycrap.shop/product/airhook. But only for light loads like snacks and the "heavgy duty airhook" it wanted to sell me is for a clothesline. While useful, I'm afraid your product engineers have to spend some more time so that we can reliably suspend cars from the air again.
by relaxing | 2025-09-13 17:49:02+00:00
Ironically the first thing I notice on your photostream is an empty cityscape. Here’s a tip: ultra wide angle is useful for pulling you in close to an object that’s in the foreground. If you leave the center empty, as with the shot of the storefronts, you’ve made another boring image (only with widely diverging lines.)

I went through a phase of shooting everything at 10mm too. It’s a novelty that wears out fast if you’re not respecting rules of good composition.

Author is correct, the wide shot of the mountains cape is too busy and lacks a story. Despite lacking people, the tight shot is a stronger image.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-13 17:49:39+00:00
"Metacybernetics" is a concept with a small handful of Google hits, some of which appear to be obscure research papers and some appear to be metaphysical crackpottery on blogs.

I think it's worth considering that the theories you're familiar with are incredibly niche, have never gained any foothold in mainstream discussions of system dynamics, and it's not wrong for people not to be aware of them (or to choose not to mention them) in a post addressed at general audiences.

Further, you just missed the opportunity to explain these concepts to a broader HN audience and maybe make sure that the next time someone writes about it, they are aware of this work.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-13 17:51:05+00:00
No, we can't. I worked in the industry when there was strong, independent regulation and private engineering consultancies. These don't exist anymore. The NRC is stacked politically and it and EPRI lack the gray beards it once had and the engineering industry is a shadow of its former self. Dunning-Kruger ignorant proponents advocate for it without understanding the issues or the complications in this current situation that is a far different situation than 30 years ago that might've been reasonable when Duke Energy wanted a revival. Its time has passed because the economics of conventional alternatives make it moot.
by marcyb5st | 2025-09-13 17:51:06+00:00
Isn't that only applicable for Uranium 235 based reactors? Thorium is converted to Uranium 233 and when split the byproducts have an half life of 10s of years, meaning that the radioactivity drops to safe levels in "only" few hundred years.

This is much more manageable.

Anyway, that is to say that nuclear is a spectrum, and the current mainstream tech I believe it is the one that won because of the military applications (and therefore funding) back in the cold-war era.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-13 17:51:56+00:00
I’d qualify as a senior and like I said, hundreds of apps and not even an interview - very different from 5+ years ago, where almost 50% of apps resulted in an interview.

When you’re a hiring manager, you need to do whatever it takes to be the first filter, or at least get the permissions needed to see candidates excluded by recruiting/hR.

This is crazy and I don’t understand it but HR and recruiters do not pass along the majority of strong candidates. I have no idea why, often the resumes are indistinguishable from ones they forward on, and plenty of the candidates they forward to me are just prima facie not qualified.
by alex-mohr | 2025-09-13 17:52:06+00:00
Process is useful for raising the lowest deliveries quality, for making former-unknowns into knowns, and for preventing misaligned behavior when culture alone becomes insufficient.

If you have need for speed, a team that knows the space, and crucially a leader who can be trusted to depart from the usual process when that tradeoff better meets business needs, it can work really well. But also comes with increased risk.
by borroka | 2025-09-13 17:52:43+00:00
It's a problem that goes beyond the United States, overworked staff, and constraints in general, although these are legitimate concerns. I studied in a non-US country, but the attention paid by teachers to pedagogy was virtually zero.

I mean, we had five years of English classes in high school, and by the end of high school, less than five out of 30 people in my cohort were able to string a couple of sentences together in English. And my class was made up of serious, studious young people. It seems to me that the time was not well spent, but did the teacher, a caring and generally competent person, reflect on the poor results? I highly doubt it.