MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-10-06 20:39:22+00:00
Related. Others?

Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33935566 - Dec 2022 (145 comments)

Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26556938 - March 2021 (127 comments)

Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226291 - Sept 2015 (121 comments)
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 20:39:38+00:00
Gimme your source URL, please.

As others have pointed out already in this thread: No serious analyst and not even Starlink themselves have claimed to be profitable. They have claimed to be operationally profitable. This means that the cost of operating the sats is lower than the revenue they make. It does leave out all other cost. Yes, if they could build and launch the Sats for free instead of ~$2 million per piece, that could be a profitable business.

Also, have you actually used Starlink? It's crap. Yes, in 2023 when they did not have customers you got decent speeds. Now it's completely overbooked. Yes, you can make a year of profits milking existing customers.

Google "Starlink benchmark" or "Starlink feedback" etc and you will see things like these:

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/starlink.com

At this point Starlink's active customer base is rating their service to be worse than... cancer, I guess?
by xienze | 2025-10-06 20:40:22+00:00
Are you suggesting that two people, same weight, same metabolism, but one is a lifelong alcoholic and the other a once-per-month drinker — if they both have three or four drinks, the alcoholic would be just as impaired as the other person? I doubt that. The whole “functioning” part of “functioning alcoholic” implies that the alcoholic is able to, well, function in a manner a normal person wouldn’t if they had been drinking as heavily.
by notatoad | 2025-10-06 20:40:23+00:00
i can't imagine that users will be interested in asking chatGPT to ask zillow things, or ask chatGPT to ask canva to do things. that's a clunky interface. i can see users asking chatGPT to look up house prices, or to generate graphics, but they're not going to ask for zillow or canva specifically.

and if the apps are trusting ChatGPT to send them users based on those sort of queries, it's only a matter of time before ChatGPT brings the functionality first-party and cuts out the apps - any app who believes chat is the universal interface of the future and exposes their functionality as a ChatGPT app is signing their own death warrant.
by fmajid | 2025-10-06 20:40:27+00:00
Given THC lingers in your blood for so long, the inevitable delays in getting the perp to the testing facility won’t help their blood levels fall under the threshold, whatever it is.

Norway used to have a blood alcohol threshold of zero, and if you had any, you were immediately shipped to Ilseng prison, no ifs or buts. Sadly they have abandoned this enlightened policy.
by mothballed | 2025-10-06 20:40:35+00:00
I've had a warrant for my bodily fluids before.

They couldn't even find a doctor/nurse willing to execute it, and even better like 12 hours of 2 officer's time was wasted (before they gave up, LMAO) trying to execute it so they couldn't hassle anyone else.

No charges, and since I refused to even talk to the police they had nothing.

I'll take getting dragged to the station any day instead of just handing PC to them on a silver platter with some subjective test.
by saberience | 2025-10-06 20:41:58+00:00
That's like saying making a website is like deploying an app for 7B people.

Sure, but deploying a website or app doesn't mean anyone's going to use it, does it?

I could make an iOS app, I could make a website, I could make a ChatGPT app... if no one uses it, it doesn't matter how big the userbase of iOS, the internet, or ChatGPT is...
by jakewins | 2025-10-06 20:42:44+00:00
Sorry I still don’t understand.

Are you saying you disagree that a new architectural leap is needed and just more compute for training is enough? Or are you saying a new architectural leap is needed and that or those new architectures will only be possible to train with insane amounts of compute?

If the latter I dont understand how you could know that about an innovation that’s not yet been made
by irrationalfab | 2025-10-06 20:42:44+00:00
> If those features aren't supported by the widget's hard-coded schema, you're out of luck as a user.

Chat paired to the pre-built and on-demand widgets address this limitation.

For example, in the keynote demo, they showed how the chat interface lets you perform advanced filtering that pulls together information from multiple sources, like filtering only Zillow housers near a dog park.
by acdha | 2025-10-06 20:42:48+00:00
Do you have any figures on the degree of subsidy? The impression I’ve gotten over the last year or so is that China has been phasing out their subsidies, which also went to companies like Tesla and Stellantis, and the main shift recently was the Make Smog Great Again bill over the summer setting the US back a generation which isn’t really a criticism of Chinese industrial policy.

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2025/ev-strategies-in-us-eu...

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3322666/c...
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-06 20:43:22+00:00
This is part of the fight regarding whether we will have utility apps inside the chat app or chatboxes inside the utility apps. Obviously OpenAI would prefer that they are in the driver seat and delegate to passive apps, while regular apps like Booking would prefer to be the app the user uses and to run an AI chatbox nested inside their own app UI, so they can swap it out etc.

Convenience-wise probably this model is more viable, and things will get centralized to the AI apps. And the nested utilities will be walled gardens on steroids. Using custom software and general computing (in the manner of the now discontinued sideloading on Android) will get even further away for the average person.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-06 20:44:17+00:00
> The whole “functioning” part of “functioning alcoholic” implies that the alcoholic is able to, well, function in a manner a normal person wouldn’t if they had been drinking as heavily.

Well, It's like "functioning" in "high-functioning autism"; it's speaks to how well they can function in society, not how well they can operate a motor vehicle (nor anything to do with reaction times).
by bluehatbrit | 2025-10-06 20:44:37+00:00
I found this a bit odd, especially when the author mentioned they lose their apple watch a lot so buy an older one. It feels peculiar to buy such an objectively expensive high end item when you know you constantly lose it, and barely use any of it's features. To me that is continual overconsumption.

I can't pretend I don't have my own contradictions going on, so I'm not having a go at the author. But I did find it a little funny when reading it.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-06 20:44:57+00:00
I envy you having written this, because I've wanted to do the same. I'm the adhoc IT guy / CISO / etc. for a small medical practice. I have to jump through the PCI hoops quarterly because it's an ancient junk relic of a time where Infinite Trust Networking and monthly forced password rotation were en vogue.

And why do I have to do PCI stuff? Because we have a credit card scanner that patients use to pay for things. In any sane world, compliance would be on the manufacturer of the scanner: "hey, make devices that actually, you know, encrypt stuff reliably". But since we don't live in that world, I have to have a separate Ethernet drop to the card scanner, which plugs into its own dedicated port on the firewall, which completely segregates it from the rest of the LAN traffic. That isn't horrible in concept, but why? Our servers which store PHI don't have those stringent requirements, because the servers are secured. They don't have to trust that the network is kind and gentle, because they're designed with the idea that it's not. But not so the credit card scanner!

For extra fun, we also have to pay someone to run a PCI compliance scan against our external IP. Said IP listens on exactly one port: the one that doctors use to VPN into the office so that they can check their schedule from home. We got a failing score one year because the VPN appliance supported — not required, but supported — some less-than-perfect crypto algorithm. None of our clients were configured to use those protocols. I know. I configured them. But because the server supported them, we were temporarily[0] judged to be noncompliant because some attacker could, I don't know, hack in and pivot in to the firewall appliance and from their pivot to attack the poor downtrodden credit card scanner which, of course, can't be expected to defend itself from the hostile environment of doctor's office LAN.

PCI's a joke.

[0]It would be against the scanner's ToS to temporarily block that port in our inbound firewall long enough to get them to shut up about it, so I totally did not do that.
by fred_is_fred | 2025-10-06 20:44:57+00:00
> NOAA said the stratosphere contains an unexpected quantity of particles with a variety of exotic metals. The scientists believe the particles come from satellites and spent rocket boosters as they are vaporized by the intense heat of reentry.

My start-up is called Strato Mines - collecting rare earths from 120km above earth. Willing to give 1% at a 100B valuation to any qualified investor.
by octo888 | 2025-10-06 20:45:08+00:00
> On the return from my first trip to South Africa I carried 12 bottles of wine in my luggage.

Totally understandable! Amazing wine - I didn't want to leave Constantia. But I picked myself up and dragged myself to Stellenbosch !

And at the end of the trip, I didn't want to return home. Such an incredible country that still holds a very special place in my heart
by kragen | 2025-10-06 20:45:38+00:00
What do you mean about preventing fires? 800 watts at 240 volts is only 3.3 amps. Are you saying there are German houses where you could plug a solar power system into an outlet whose wires would pose a fire risk if they carried 4 amps? Because I think the minimal rating for a German residential outlet is 16 amps, which would be 3520 watts at 220 volts.

While I agree that you can't just arbitrarily raise safety-based limits, not all "safety-based limits" are actually safety-based, and I'm pretty sure you've misidentified the safety concerns in this one.
by benjiro | 2025-10-06 20:45:54+00:00
> They had > 95.4% unit capability factor

That is not the issue. Let me give you a example. Belgium decided to extend the life on several nuclear reactors, that originally had plans for decommissioning.

So they started to do actual deep maintenance for the extended life. Then they ran into issues of cracks in the concrete, issues with cracks in metal storage tanks, and a whole lot of other issues.

Reactors down for a long periode for the repairs, AND a ton of extra costs. These costs of those repairs, i can not find them no matter where i look. Its interesting how hidden those are.

For the 2025 extension, the initial estimated 1.5 billion for the life extension. And still the whole issue about the reactors issues their full fix cost price is unknown. In other words, they did a patch job and for the next extension, they need to do a major maintenance / repair.

The extension of the German reactors was estimated at 3B+ if i remember correctly. And that does not include if any issues are found.

That is the problem... This type of deferred maintenance start to stack up over time, when you have a phase out time for reactors. So issues becomes a big black money hole when you already committed to the extension.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 20:46:19+00:00
I think that a large part of the puzzle that is missing here comparing to other countries is the US is massive in terms of size, it's not much smaller than the whole of Europe including European parts of Russia and quite a bit larger than Europe without Russia. In the Chart, China is pretty large, but I don't know that there is that much travel in terms of distances away from metro areas for its EV owners or what the infrastructure inland looks like.

But the US is simply a big place, and there is a lot of value assigned to being able to drive across it. I've done road trips where I'd drive for 8-12 hours a day for a few weeks as part of vacation routines. It's a really nice way to break away from daily stresses. I couldn't have done that with an EV... I'd have to plan for several additional stops and cut my daily travel distances to quite a bit shorter for the "stretch" days. I'd also have had to be far more careful in terms of going off-route to see a national park, or catch a touristy spot unplanned.

And while there are EV models with longer ranges, you still have to face the relatively limited infrastructure in place. It's gotten and continues to get better though. That said, it's still a massive country and will vary a lot by travel patterns.
by Archelaos | 2025-10-06 20:46:33+00:00
This is all propaganda of the nuclear lobby.

> Germany didn't avoid nuclear by switching to renewables. It does so by burning coal and building gas-fired power plants.

Germany is constantly reducing gas consumption.[1] From 2000-2024 it reduced electricity generation from coal by 61%.[2]

> How to manage a grid fully on intermitent power sources is an open question. There is at this point in time no answer to this.

Only details are open. (Compared to the open question of long term storage of nuclear wast these are very minor problems.) The general strategy is clear: use constantly available renewables (offshore wind, geothermal), connect distant regions for mutual compensation, energy storage.

Personally I think it neglegible if a very small percentage of fossil technology were held in reserve for emergency power generators.

> At the moment, Germany fires up extremely dirty power generation capacity every time there is a shortage.

We are in a transition period. It is impossible to suddenly move to complete renewables. Responsible for the rather slow progress are not those people who pushed for the switch to renewables a long time ago, but those who wanted to drag it out as long as possible. These advocates of fossil fuels were the same individuals and companies that wished to extend the use of nuclear energy.

> Meanwhile, all europeans bear the costs of Germany shortsightedness - as usual - since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

Since September 2022 Germany imported no gas from Russia.[3] Meanwhile, the nuclear industries of France remains the sole buyer of enriched uranium from Russia in the EU. Admittedly, it has considerably reduced its imports from Russia itself,[4] but is still heavily dependent imports from Russia's sphere of influence (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).[5] The same applies to the USA.[6]

> With nuclear, it's pretty clear how to run a grid. Heck, France has been doing so for decades. The question is how to build it cheaply at scale but at least we have some good ideas and experience about how to do that.

I do not deny that it is possible to operate a reasonably stable electrical network with dirty energy, apart from the regular shortages in dry summers and during heavy frosts. But Germany is ambitious and is going to show the world that it is possible to do it with clean energy. The nuclear lobbyists fear most that this will be successful. This is the only way to explain why they are attacking Germany so fiercely, even though they could actually sit back and wait to see if it succeeds. They fear for their business.

[1] https://energiewende.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/EWD/Red...

[2] https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/coal

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332783/german-gas-impor...

[4] https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2025-01-eu-and-us-re...

[5] https://en.fergana.news/news/137148/

[6] https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2025-06-18/rus...
by dpark | 2025-10-06 20:46:49+00:00
I have no idea about THC tolerance in comparison with alcohol. The numbers I see some people claim to consume is in your order of magnitude range vs what beginners are advised to use so it’s believable.

> Somehow you disagree that my model is accurate enough, but also agree that a constant cutoff is a good heuristic for legal intoxication from alcohol.

It’s not that I think your model isn’t accurate enough. It’s that I think your model is not consistent. A few extra drinks is enough to go from just barely under .08 to .16. If an alcoholic can run nearly double the alcohol intake (and double the BAC) of a nonalcoholic I don’t agree that this is nearly the same.

I agree with the constant cutoff because a constant reasonable limit is easier to administer. Less subjectivity for law enforcement is a good thing. I would probably support for the same for THC. “But I consume so much that I have a really high tolerance!” Ok, that’s not everyone else’s problem to deal with. Don’t drink if you’re over the limit.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-06 20:47:11+00:00
Starlink has to continue existing.

That's how SpaceX justifies its launch capabilities. Their strategy of using assembly line techniques to build reusable rockets make no sense unless there is a lot of stuff to launch. Satellites are crazy expensive, and the launch represents only a smaller part of the total budget, so even if the launch was free, there is only so much demand.

Starlink is more than half of SpaceX launches, building their own demand.

And replacing satellites regularly was the plan. I don't know how they did their report, but they certainly budgeted it internally. SpaceX is a private company, they tell you what they want to tell you.
by throw744848484 | 2025-10-06 20:47:25+00:00
> USB cables but I would always throw them out during these “spring cleanings” so now I throw them when I first get them.

Funny. One bagging travel turned me into USB cable hoarder. This stuff always breaks, gets lost on the road, and it is quite handy to have stash of spares at home.

I hate shopping for random stuff, ordering cables from Amazon is a lottery and fire hazard these days.

So I buy good stuff in bulk and discounts. If I find good shoes, I buy ten pairs, before they are discontinued.

My living room wall is now covered with stacks of boxes with supplies. Look does not matter, I do not live there most of the time anyway.
by duskwuff | 2025-10-06 20:47:30+00:00
They already did that. The previous release was based on Android 6, and is functionally useless nowadays given that it only runs on a couple of Samsung devices all released around 2011-12.

If you're trying to maintain a fork of a large open-source project, and especially one which needs to interoperate with external systems like Android, keeping up with upstream releases is not optional. The upstream will move on without you.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-06 20:48:30+00:00
>So until we have more research, we legislate to the case of the "first-time user completely stoned," no?

Throwing everyone under the bus because of the lowest common denominator is a shitty thing to do when we're talking $10k+ life altering fines here, but your attitude is how everything else involving driving is done so you'll probably get your way even if it's not moral or right.

INB4 people call me a stoner, haven't smoked weed in decades.
by sigwinch | 2025-10-06 20:48:40+00:00
The point goes like this: you and a neighbor start a business. You each make independent choices on health insurance. When he breaks a leg and can’t work for a while, it’s inconvenient but not burdensome for your shared business. But, you chose not to get health insurance. Your melanoma diagnosis looks like $80,000 which you don’t have. Your business partner has a choice: should he liquidate the business, or act in the long term?
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-06 20:48:53+00:00
You should also check out QNX, it used to be an awesome OS, way better than Linux back in the day. They released a 1.44MB demo floppy disk in the late 90s that included a full desktop GUI, HTML4 browser, network stack. It blew everyone away at the time as there was nothing like it (yes, MenuetOS/KolibriOS does more, but they came much later).

The full desktop QNX 6 (Neutrino) is also worth checking out in a VM if you've got the time - I ran it on my 450MHZ Pentium III back in the day, it had excellent multitasking performance that no other OS had at the time.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-10-06 20:49:31+00:00
The debris that ends up with equal or lower orbital energy than one of the satellites started with doesn't move up, that is true.

But all the bits the bits that end up with more energy than the orbit the satellites were on obviously do move up, and some bits will move up very substantially as we know from Mission Shakti debris: debris from that event at 300 km got apoapsis of up to ~2200 km.
by DiscourseFan | 2025-10-06 20:49:47+00:00
I do like a mix of this and just being more flexible about where I can live. Like, I'm leaving where I am in a few days, but that's after staying here for most of 6 months, also flying to various locations for conferences, to meet up with old friends. I use a suitcase these days with fashionable clothes and I will stay in airbnb rentals instead of hostels, especially if I'm already meeting up with friends or if I need to make sure I have a quiet place to work. I also, perhaps, am fortunate that my family still owns their own home, so I have a place for long term storage in case I need it, since I have accrued a pretty large collection of physical books, for instance, some of them more rare than others.

I think if I were ever to get married I would probably buy a house or something, but ideally my partner would also be as mobile and flexible as me.
by netsharc | 2025-10-06 20:50:17+00:00
What a low value piece of writing. I had to hunt around the episode to find if he describes why, etc, but couldn't be arsed wasting more than a minute of my time.

But, "AI in cars" is interesting. I guess it's already possible to build a clone of the KITT computer from the Knight Rider using LLM. (Is this a millennial reference, or a boomer one?). Although I wonder what features would make it more than a gimmick. Something like, "Michael, that Tesla has been following us for more than 15 miles. I ran the plates and it's..."
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 20:50:55+00:00
[Due to the part of the spectrum I am on, I do not have believes or opinions.]

The laser based inter-links still not working has been subject on various conferences like AngaCOM etc.

But in my case: I have simply tried it *). And every Starlink user can do it, too: Use traceroute. And if you think "they might be hiding the hop-to-hops between Sats!", you can dig deeper using MTR behind the modem or simply rooting the modem itself.

Last time I have connected to a v3 Sat however was ~6 months ago. Maybe an active user reading this can try today?
by kragen | 2025-10-06 20:50:57+00:00
A hypothetical microinverter is completely capable of kickstarting the "grid" within a single house. You can try it yourself: get a 2000-watt car inverter, connect it to a car battery, turn off your house's main circuit breaker, and plug a suicide cord (male to male) between the car inverter and one of your house's outlets. The electrical appliances in your house will work fine unless one of them starts trying to draw more than 2000 watts (or, as hedora says, unless you're powering only one phase of a split-phase system). This is dangerous: if someone turns the main circuit breaker back on while in this setup, the car inverter will probably be destroyed and may start a fire. But it's far from a technological impossibility. It's achievable even with redneck duct-tape-and-baling wire engineering.
by acdha | 2025-10-06 20:51:16+00:00
> Masculinity in western societies is heavily pathologized to the point that men who aren't 6ft and very good looking have the deck heavily stacked against them

I always find this fascinating because almost all of the women I’ve known complain about the challenges of finding men who respect them, do their share of the housework, etc. With one exception, everyone I’ve heard saying 6 feet and a six pack are mandatory were gay men.