MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 20:41:30+00:00
AFAIK its more complex than that. It requires high capEx at first, it needs the grid to match it and affects previous investments. The solar got cheap fast, wind didn't as much but it has its own advantages like it works when solar doesn't etc. A lot of government coordination is needed to work.

The governments can be very effective with that through providing long term visibility and reducing the risks.
by pkroll | 2025-10-01 20:42:02+00:00
"NTSTC content at 23.976 I'd hope the player would just speed up at that point, but even if not... judder at 120 Hz is better than at 60 Hz."

I'd bet money when TVs are advertised at 120 FPS, they're really 119.88 FPS, so no judder showing 23.976 FPS and the other NTSC-off display rates.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-01 20:42:11+00:00
Yes, because you can't just increase capacity with solar. It has to be backed up by base power. Add 10% solar? OK now you need 10% from natural gas, nuclear, oil, etc. You need to add both solar and something durable then you can just use the solar until you cant.

Look what happened in Portugal when it got cloudy.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-01 20:42:21+00:00
I don't think masking is necessarily the right word, but when people start self-diagnosing themselves they often miss the correct problem in favor of what's popular on their social media feeds.

Right now, Autism and/or ADHD are the two that are most prevalent on social media. Many people, especially younger people who spend a lot of time on Reddit, TikTok, or other sites, see these diagnoses trend with vague descriptions about what they entail. When they encounter struggles, they recall those vague descriptions, make a connection, and assume their life problems are due to the diagnosis.

It's not uncommon to read accounts of people who describe their symptoms as textbook social anxiety or depression who will nevertheless insist they have "AuDHD" as self-diagnosed via their social media consumption.

It can actually be hard to break them out of one preferred diagnosis and get them going down the right path to address the problem.

An example: Someone develops an eating disorder, but they read on Reddit that forgetting to eat and having low energy for schoolwork can be a symptoms of ADHD. They self-diagnose as ADHD and avoid addressing their very obvious eating disorder problem. They might even get insulted when someone suggests they have an eating disorder, insisting that the other person must not understand ADHD.

This pattern isn't unique to autism or ADHD. It's common to all trending internet diagnoses. You will find communities where everyone convinces themselves they have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. Doctors who treat those two conditions are currently rejecting referrals at a high rate due to extreme self-diagnosis via TikTok. The people self-diagnosing with those conditions usually do have something wrong, but they've latched on to one explanation that doesn't fit and they won't let go because they think it explains everything about them.
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by wayy | 2025-10-01 20:42:51+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm learning Chinese and grew tired of rote memorization and the contrived examples found in many language-learning apps. I wanted to learn in a more natural context by reading content I was already interested in, such as articles on Hacker News.

So I built a tool that takes any article and partially translates it based on your self-reported HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) level. The goal is for you to be able to read and understand the article while actively using the Chinese you already know.

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by dcre | 2025-10-01 20:43:30+00:00
Assuming you mean: how do estimates and previous monthly turn out to be wrong and need correction?

After the president fired the head of the BLS for publishing numbers he didn't like, there were a number of articles explaining why there are revisions.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/jobs-report-july-2025-revis...

The short answer is that there are various data sources and the most detailed ones are collected less than monthly, so the estimates based on the most recently monthly data are often corrected based on the other data.

As for why estimates are off, the data used by the estimators are presumably themselves even lower quality than whatever BLS is using.
by rayiner | 2025-10-01 20:44:00+00:00
The examples you picked aren’t great to support your point. An alien with a copy of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers would easily discern that the document intends to afford greater protection to the right to bear arms than some right to bodily autonomy. As to these particular cases, even prominent liberals have questioned the soundness of the original decisions.

The Second Amendment says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

There is nothing complicated about the prefatory clause. If the amendment read: “News reporting, being necessary to the public debate of a free State, the right of the people to free speech shall not be infringed,” nobody would say that only professional news reporters have a right to free speech. They would say that “the right of the people to free speech” refers to a preexisting right that belongs to “the people” and the introductory clause provides the rationale for protecting it. The meaning isn’t even confusing when you recall that, at the time, militias were “bring your own firearm.” You don’t even need to open up the Federalist Papers and read Hamilton’s writing on European monarchs disarming their people.

Even Larry Tribe, who hates Trump and conservatives more than anyone in legal academia, came around to this view of the Second Amendment: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/why-i-changed-my-mind.

In contrast, there concededly is no “right of privacy” in the Constitution. Griswold turned to “emanations from penumbras” to find such a right. Nobody left of center would apply similar reasoning to find economic rights in the “emanations from penumbras” of the Contract Clause. This is such a case—Lochner—and folks on both sides agree it’s wrong. Griswold and Roe are just Lochner applied to sexual liberties rather than economic ones.

Even most left of center folks would struggle to write an opinion like Griswold and Roe today. They’re relics of an age when the Supreme Court was like a Yankee WASP version of Iran’s Guardian Council, ensuring compliance of temporal law with higher moral law.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-10-01 20:44:03+00:00
Buy as much property as banks will loan you the money for. You'll borrow the money cheap and then inflation will rocket, meaning the property will gain value while the bank is left holding the bag due to the dwindling value of the money you owe them.

This will only work if mortgage rates actually drop hand in hand with the fed rate, BTW. And that isn't always guaranteed as the primary risk for a lender is inflation, so if high inflation is obvious and predicted as a consequence, mortgage rates will remain high to compensate.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-01 20:44:13+00:00
I don't think mandatory conscription/press-gangs are anywhere close to murder/rape of civilians (which there are well-documented cases on the Palestinian and Russian side).

Pressing young men into military service is not even on the same scale by comparison.

And its not just the rape/murder/looting thats the problem- its about how the perpetrators deal with it.

The harsh reality of war is that tragedies like that are hard to completely prevent even for a disciplined force, but if you can not even be arsed to prosecute escalations like that (and respond with obvious lies, denial and finger-pointing instead), you lose any moral high-ground.
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-01 20:44:25+00:00
The entire stock market and economy is being held up on the back of a massive AI bubble. Everywhere else you look, performance is down, people are struggling, jobs are vanishing and consumer confidence is disappearing. The most inept people you can imagine are in control of the only levers that can fix things and they've decided to instead strip it and sell it for parts after slamming the self-destruct button.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 20:44:28+00:00
> 3. A company is not legally allowed to know if you took a vaccine or not

I don't think HIPAA protections work the way you think they work. Businesses aren't allowed to know... without your consent. It's perfectly legal to demand that you produce documentation proving your vaccination, your age, or even your medical history before being allowed to do certain things. Many businesses aren't legally allowed to subsume liability without having that documentation. If you don't consent, they will (justifiably) refuse you service.

Can't skydive if you won't prove you don't have scoliosis, can't drink if you won't show your drivers license. Way she goes.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 20:44:59+00:00
> But one should realize that thorny words are precisely what replaces physical violence.

No this is bullshit. The Nazis didn't kill the jews because they couldn't say mean things about them. The Nazis didn't purposely target trans people and gay people and mentally challenged people and political opponents because they couldn't slag them publicly.

Germany did not become Nazis because of any lack of free speech. People were talking about how horrifying the Nazis were right up until they were put in camps.

Christ.

The Civil War didn't happen because people weren't able to say black people are lesser (which they were always able to say and still are)

This take is detached from history.

How much violence did Native Americans avoid by getting to say how awful they were being treated? They were never muzzled, so why did they still end up basically ethnically cleansed?
by coldtea | 2025-10-01 20:45:11+00:00
You missed the top addendum on the very page you linked to, by its very author:

"I no longer consider any of this to be valid, and consider this entire adventure so far to have been intellectually dishonest and filled with questionable assumptions about everything, so, please, if you're reading this and got linked here, stop reading this and tell whoever linked you here to shut the f*k up already."
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by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:45:23+00:00
I'm cynical but I also see the numbers. This is by far one of trumps worst polling issues. It may not be the Watergate release that ends the term, but this will absolutely tank the GOP's midterms and add more fuel to a congress that might want to try to impeach Trump again in 2027.

The numbers as is are really bad for so much of the GOP. Maybe no one holds them accountable now, but these sentiments aren't easily forgotten when it's out in the blue. Ford pardoned Nixon nearly Day One of taking over and that pretty much forever sealed his chances at re-election.
by compiler-guy | 2025-10-01 20:45:26+00:00
s/install/somehow obtain access/

Doesn’t really change the point.

As of this writing, there are twenty-two comments on this thread about airtable. All but four are either you or responding to you bringing it up.

I think it’s fair to say that whatever its advantages may be, it is relatively unknown, and therefore a higher-overhead entree into programming than straight up spreadsheets.

Just learning about it or finding fit for purpose takes more time than diving into a spreadsheet. And as always the argument is not that spreadsheets are more powerful or better, but that they are much easier and more incremental to learn and start with.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-01 20:45:42+00:00
...because you can't regulate businesses as "public squares" without first holding them accountable for their users? You must live in a pretty entertaining bubble if you're imagining the DOJ issuing a United States of America v. @dril of X Inc. subpeona.

"The district court is dismissed today, for the 145th consecutive time our defendant failed to appear for roll call. Upon his 150th infraction a Networked Hunter-Killer squad will search the web for his profiles and terminate any trace of his posting. Upon the 300th infraction, Elon Musk will release a video personally accusing him of being a pedophile. Comply... or face unthinkable punishments."
by gridspy | 2025-10-01 20:45:44+00:00
It's harder than you think.

- Go into a bright, commercial space

- All the packets are "shouting" at you with colorful labels

- There is noise of shoppers, a PA system, canned music and/or advertising

- Navigate lots of social interactions with other shoppers around navigating asiles, manouvering carts, who picks what

- Manage a shopping list and find a variety of goods

- Go to the check-out asile. Hopefully you can avoid interacting with a human

- Manage packing bags and paying

- Hopefully noone talks to you as you leave
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-01 20:45:48+00:00
Survey response times creating trend bias.

If the economy has been growing at N% a quarter, that’s your baseline until evidenced otherwise. The evidence comes in the form of BLS surveys and payroll data, both of which are lagging indicators.

Why lagging? If you’re hiring and firing, you’re going to be preoccupied with that before responding to a survey. So the folks who are doing the most change to their baselines tend to respond late. Similarly, if you’re hiring a firing a bunch, you may not get your numbers into ADP precisely correctly the first time around.
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by tolerance | 2025-10-01 20:46:20+00:00
Good point. I wish I would’ve added a condition to that statement. Dexterity varies. I don’t think that the profession as whole is doomed and I’m skeptical toward the expectation that other skilled/craft industries are as well.

I think that AI is going to be a boon for certain types of people, an impediment for some others and a source of indifference for some too. But I don’t necessarily expect the median to go quietly out the door. Unless they receive a universal, perpetual sort of “severance” with a progressive-sounding tint.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-01 20:46:35+00:00
Alcohol isn't the only way to get inebriated.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trum...

> If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes.

> In January, the Defense Department’s inspector general released a report detailing how the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration distributed controlled substances with scant oversight and even sloppier record keeping. Investigators repeatedly noted that the unit had ordered thousands and thousands of doses of the stimulant modafinil, which has been used by military pilots for decades to stay alert during long missions.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-01 20:46:53+00:00
I'm not surprised, is saving tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars per employee worth screwing up by betting on AI and losing millions? Notice that the headlines of companies wanting AI are wanting their employees to use AI to be more productive, and that's fine, but they still need their employees to be fully aware of the output so they're not just churning out slop.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-01 20:47:13+00:00
Job numbers? Pretty sure you could make the case that this claim isn't true, but the data might be too nebulous.

But it's definitely had an effect on jobs.

It's made so many underqualified people think they have a new superpower, and made so many people miserable with the implied belittling of their actual skills. It's really damaging work culture.

Of course studies like this are aimed at people who think jobs are interchangeable neutral little black boxes that can be scaled up and scaled down, and who don't like to think about what they involve.

> Overall, our metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release

Because metrics don't tell the story.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-01 20:47:24+00:00
> You are aware that the EU must choose between nuclear or gas to produce electricity when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine.

Which does not capture the cost of a nuclear plant being forced off the market because no one is buying its electricity during the day and they have to amortize the cost over a 40% capacity factor instead of 85% like they target.

And this can be a purely economical factor. Sure a plant may have a 90% capacity factor but if the market clears at $0 50% of the time they still need to recoup all the costs on the remaining 50%, pushing up the costs to what would be a the equivalent to a 42.5% capacity factor when running steady state.

Take Vogtle running at a 40% capacity factor, the electricty now costs 40 cents/kwh or $400 MWh. That is pure insanity. Get Vogtle down to 20%, which is very likely as we already have renewable grids at 75% renewables and it is 80 cents/kWh.

Take a look at Australia for the future of old inflexible "baseload" (which always was an economic construct coming from marginal cost) plants.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/australian-coal-plant...

Coal plants forced to become peakers or be decommissioned.

Electricity is fundamentally priced on the margin and if you start forcing nuclear costs on the ratepayers they will build rooftop solar and storage like crazy, leaving you without any takers for the nuclear based electricity.

You can say that "no one would do that" but it is the end state of the market.

> Considering that the EU classifies nuclear as equally renewable as solar, why should we rely solely on solar?

Why waste money on horrifyingly expensive new built nuclear power? Who looks at Flamanville 3, Hinkley Point C and friends and draw the conclusion that they want some more?!?