MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lnsru | 2025-10-06 06:26:15+00:00
That’s the thing about statistics - it is only somehow valid at some uncertain date. I know 3 not registered installations. One guy has big photovoltaic installation and installed balcony power plant to cover his special energy needs at sunrise. Another guy works from home and has two balcony power plants to cover his home office needs. Third guy didn’t like batshit crazy registration website and left the installation unregistered, but running.
by ozim | 2025-10-06 06:26:21+00:00
Well from what I remember from university most of expert systems went into bust because they were promising what ML today promise.

The maintenance of the rules or for you scripts for complex tasks is much more work than anyone is willing to commit to. Also big problem was finding out tacit knowledge and no one was able to code that reliably in.

ML today is promising you won’t have to hand code the rules you just push data and system finds out what the rules are and then can handle new data.

I don’t have to code the rules to check if there is a cat in the picture - that definitely works. Making rules on data that is not so often found on the internet that’s still going to be a hassle. Rules change and world change and for example knowledge cut off is I think still a problem.

In the end yes you can build nice system for some use case where you plugin LLM for classification and you most likely will make money on it. This just won’t be „what was promised” so AGI and we are stuck with this promise and a lot of people won’t accept less than that.
by WCSTombs | 2025-10-06 06:28:16+00:00
As of today, there's no way to prove the security of any available cryptosystem. Let me say that differently: for all we know, ALL currently available cryptosystems can be easily cracked by some unpublished techniques. The only sort-of exception to that requires quantum communication, which is nowhere near practicability on the scale required. The only evidence we have that the cryptography that we commonly use is actually safe is that it's based on "hard" math problems that have been studied for decades or longer by mathematicians without anyone being able to crack them.

On the other hand, some popular cryptosystems that were more common in the past have been significantly weakened over the years by mathematical advances. Those were also based on math problems that were believed to be "hard." (They're still very hard actually, but less so than we thought.)

What I'm getting at is that if you have some extremely sensitive data that could still be valuable to an adversary after decades, you know, the type of stuff the government of a developed nation might be holding, you probably shouldn't let it get into the hands of an adversarial nation-state even encrypted.
by pintxo | 2025-10-06 06:28:17+00:00
This being Germany, you actually are supposed to register every panel in a central database. So the utilities know where generation is happening. This is for proper solar installs as well as for balcony solar.

I have a proper setup on my roof, and installed a 2kW balcony setup (2kWp panels mixed with an inverter limited to 800W) at my in-laws place.

Both are registered in the central database. I got a new power meter for mine. But it seems my in-laws are to keep their old power meter for a while, which occasionally just turns backwards, whenever they produce more than they consume.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-10-06 06:28:46+00:00
> France’s problems are spreading to Canada?

Yes, for the past few hundred years :) [0]. But more seriously, strikes are much more common in Canada than in the US (and it's been this way for as long as I can remember).

> Is this inevitable for any similarly structured entity?

Not really. This is a pretty common structure in Canada [1], and only a few of the organizations in that list are known for striking. It's very province-dependent though—Quebec is stereotypically associated with frequent striking, while it's fairly rare in Alberta.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporation#List_of_fede...
by leoedin | 2025-10-06 06:30:03+00:00
I suspect it’s less a nostalgia for a less corporate time, and more of a nostalgia for an earlier stage of the product lifecycle. Pretty much every technology follows a similar path - after an initial version proves the market there’s an explosion of manufacturers and designs all trying something new before eventually the product becomes mature and settles on a single design.

The nostalgia is for a time when a new product could genuinely surprise you.
by radley | 2025-10-06 06:30:36+00:00
It doesn't help with inspecting returns. It simply adds another hurdle that has resulted in a slightly smaller percent of fewer returns, saving them a significant amount of $$ at scale.

Btw, if Amazon is a fault, where they can't shift the loss onto a seller or third-party, the delays will go on for weeks, if not forever. You have to do a chargeback.
Show HN: Meihus – Mortgage calculator that shows early payment impact monthly
by qxsp | 2025-10-06 06:30:37+00:00
I built it because I needed a way to see how much will my early payments save in interest overtime.

Most of the websites I found are solely made for the US, which does not help my case. So I built one that has a bit more flexibility in terms of loan data.

Any feedback is appreciated.
by lmm | 2025-10-06 06:31:16+00:00
> The only sane thing a maintainer can do with something like this is squash it into one commit. So if you care about `git bisect` then you don't want this.

If someone is git bisecting trying to track down a bug they want to land on the smallest code diff possible, not the whole feature change.

> In this specific case it seems analogous to a mechanic having a tidy workshop. Would you leave your bicycle with someone head to toe in grease and tools strewn all over the place? I wouldn't.

Generally I'd be suspicious of a mechanic whose workspace looked too tidy. There's a balance, but it's very easy to keep your tools organised if you're not actually using them much.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-10-06 06:31:17+00:00
> thankfully it's already available through Let's Encrypt, via the "shortlived" profile

Maybe if you're the developer of a major web server :), but the rest of us still have to wait for general availability [0] [1].

[0]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/#shortlived

[1]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/shortlived-is-currently-...
by TheDong | 2025-10-06 06:31:21+00:00
Thumbnails are not transformative, they are fair use. They would be copyright infringement, except that a court case ruled them as fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com... .

The fact that compression is incredibly lossy does not change the fact that it's copyright infringement.

I have a lossy compression algorithm with simply outputs '0' or '1' depending on the parity of bits of the input.

If I run that against a camcording of a disney film, the result is a 0 copyrighted by disney, and in fact posting that 0 in this comment would make this comment also illegal so I must disclaim that I did not actually produce that from a camcorded disney film.

If I run it against the book 'dracula' the result is a 0 under the public domain.

The law does not understand bits, it does not understand compression or lossiness, it understands "humans can creatively transform things, algorithms cannot unless a human imbues creativity into it". It does not matter if your compressed output does not contain the original.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-06 06:31:45+00:00
They do, but POSIX file system APIs don’t map to S3 APIs well. So you run the risk of heavily increasing your S3 APIs costs for any Stat() heavy workflows.

This is why I say there’s mixed opinions about mounting S3 via FUSE.

This isn’t an issue with a self hosted S3 compatible storage server. But you then have potential issues using an AWS tool for non-AWS infra. There be dragons there.

And if you where to use a 3rd party S3 mounting tool, then you run into all the other read and write performance issues that they had (and why Amazon ended up writing their own tool for S3).

So it’s really not a trivial exercise to selfhost a mountable block storage server. And for something as important as data consistency, you might well be concerned enough about weird edge cases that mature technologies like SMB and NFS just feel safer.
by AIorNot | 2025-10-06 06:31:45+00:00
The paper presents “Dragon Hatchling”, a brain-inspired language model that matches Transformers using local neuron rules for reasoning and memory

See paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26507

Notebook LLM summary https://youtu.be/NHcU7ETJMDI?si=NCaFla8fHVllT_qS
by WalterBright | 2025-10-06 06:33:36+00:00
I don't believe that. The pre-CAFE cars had soul. The new ones are all boring jellybeans.

Proof: look at a 1970 'Cuda. Tell me you wouldn't buy it in an instant if you had the cash!

https://www.classicautomall.com/vehicles/264/1970-plymouth-a...

Have fun with your jellybean! (Sorry)
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-06 06:33:38+00:00
In one scenario, with offsite backups ("in the clown" or otherwise): "We had a fire at our datacenter, and there will be some downtime while we get things rolling again."

In the other scenario, without offsite backups ("in the clown" or otherwise): "We had a fire at our datacenter, and that shit's just gone."

Neither of these are things that are particularly good to announce, and both things can come with very severe cost, but one of them is clearly worse than the other.
by numlock86 | 2025-10-06 06:33:43+00:00
> Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

A more fitting title would be "Germany's citizens outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels". The current phrasing makes it sound like it's somehow a thing done by the government, which is not the case. If anything the government is one of the many forces slowing down this progress. And yes, I am aware of things like grid security and stability being a concern. I am not complaining.
by Veserv | 2025-10-06 06:33:52+00:00
The GP was arguing that unless Elon Musk is given a additional 12% of the company, increasing his total ownership to 25%, he has zero incentive to raise the value of Tesla to a 8 trillion dollar valuation as he is not being “compensated” for his work.

I am pointing out that if he raised the value of Tesla to 8 trillion dollars he would earn ~800 billion dollars even without any further grants. Earning more money than anybody else has on the planet is about the absolute furthest thing from being “uncompensated” you could be. Giving him a additional 12% of the company on top of that would mean he is earning 1.8 trillion dollars from his actions instead of just 800 billion dollars.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 06:34:22+00:00
> Allowing in Chinese EVs into markets where there are important domestic auto manufacturers will be very bad for those domestic manufacturers

Tariff them so they're super expensive! Or set import quotas, so they can't displace too much demand. Either way, letting some of them through gives Americans visibility into what others are building while continuing to largely protect domestic manufacturers.
by zevon | 2025-10-06 06:34:55+00:00
As with many things, the hardware store is probably going to be rather expensive and transport is a hassle (most people do not have a car with enough space to transport solar panels). So you order this stuff from specialized companies who will deliver it to your doorstep in one more or less convenient shipment. Same for pretty much any bigger, more expensive things needed when building or extending a house. Hardware stores are convenient if you quickly need something but that's mostly it, IMO.
by Gareth321 | 2025-10-06 06:35:42+00:00
> It's wild that after a hundred years there is still exponential progress in the power output of cars.

We hit a wall there for a while. Cars were actually becoming less powerful and slower on average for a couple of decades as governments tightened emissions and safety requirements. It took Tesla to blow the walls off EV production and consumer acceptance. It's a good reminder that progress doesn't happen in a straight line.
by yetihehe | 2025-10-06 06:36:02+00:00
There is a reason that NIST recommends new encryption algorithms from time to time. If you get a copy of ALL government data, in 20 years you might be able to break encryption and get access to ALL government data from 20yr ago, no matter how classified they were, if they were stored in that cloud. Such data might still be valuable, because not all data is published after some period.
by heikkilevanto | 2025-10-06 06:36:17+00:00
The philosophy of nonexisting things can be confusing. Most people agree things like zombies, ghosts, and vampires do not actually exist in the physical world. But they do exist as concepts, and we have a fair understanding of what the words mean, how such things should behave if we meet them in a story.

Many abstract concepts also have a questionable reality. Like "concept" and "reality".

The belief in (non?)existence of things can be a matter of life and death - think how many people have been killed because of their religion.

No wonder such things can confuse a simple LLM.
by mindslight | 2025-10-06 06:36:50+00:00
No, don't play coy. OP straightforwardly implied the answers to those questions by the context - the perpetrators are obviously the gang members attacking a building in the middle of a night.

> What would you propose to do about this?

Call out the hypocrisy and the disingenuous invocation of the ideals of liberty, exactly as I am doing here. Your movement often talks of freedom but as soon as dear leader throws you some red meat for your culture war hind brain, you're readily licking boots. It's pathetic.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-06 06:37:21+00:00
I thought so when I started at a company that had that policy but in the end we still mostly ended up with split-brain issues (eg some information is shared in both places, some in only one, some updates get lost) with the added negative that stuff disappeared from Slack.

It's just a hard problem overall when you have email, chat, wiki, docs, and a ticketing system.

And, unfortunately, all these things exist because not one of them is actually good beyond its scope (if it's even good within its scope to begin with).
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-06 06:37:30+00:00
Weird. I’ve done both at scale many times and NFS daemons have always been significantly less problematic (bar the brief period when NFSv4 was new, but I just fell back to NFSv3 for a brief period).

Samba can be set up easily enough if you know what you’re doing. But getting the AD controller part working would often throw up annoying edge case problems. Problems that I never had to deal with in NFS.

Though I will admit that NIS/YP could be a pain if you needed it to sync with NT.
by mindslight | 2025-10-06 06:38:16+00:00
> some people should not be in US

This is exactly what I meant by using flimsy excuses to turn off your reasoning. "Some people" being in the US does not invalidate the Constitution. The gross violation of Constitutional rights and individual liberty is exactly the manner I do not find "desirable".

I'm not "hiding" behind concerns. The concerns are as plain as day. There are many possible approaches to "rectifying this oversight" that don't involve wholesale trampling over individual rights and personal liberty. You're the one dressing up your points in a declarative passive voice to paper over the actual actions being done here, to both citizens and non-citizens.

And for what it's worth, I think buying into the narrative that the end goal is even about illegal immigrants is utterly foolish. Trump has already been talking about setting up exceptions for critical businesses in sectors like farming, construction, and landscaping. The whole topic is just being used as another con to consolidate more autocratic authoritarian power.

But I am sure you will just keep on lying to yourself that it's all morally justified, as you continue relishing seeing 'bad' people suffer. We're never going to get actual justice against those who have utterly screwed up our economy over the past several decades, so you might as well settle for a simulation of justice against the proximal scapegoats, right? And certainly don't worry about how you're facilitating the next stage of societal destruction. The next generation can blame the next generation of scapegoats.
by f1shy | 2025-10-06 06:38:36+00:00
Mmm bot really.

First, it was HW and SW, and HW was simulated. Many go on to build something, then test

Second, requirements are written in a formal language. I’ve never seen formal languages in DOORS (or similar) before

Third we did not do the whole thing, just the bits and pieces in the requirements. After the requirements were done and approved, we move on to development, where the “normal” iterations happen.

Subtle, but not the same
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 06:40:39+00:00
> it’s not because of being competitive price wise but more about status

It's a premium product. Whether due to brand, features or something else, it's undeniable that Tesla was doing something right vis-à-vis BYD. (That said, they've been losing their edge since even before Musk's recent fuckups [1].)

[1] https://cnevpost.com/2025/09/08/tesla-sells-57152-cars-china...
by john01dav | 2025-10-06 06:41:56+00:00
Game devs should just design their games to be cross platform from the start, thus making this problem go away. Every major language compiles everywhere, so all that you need to do is not use libraries that tie you to a specific OS. When I test on the OSes that I'm not developing on I usually find a few bugs to work out, but never anything major. DirectX is the main thing to avoid, so I use Vulkan for my graphics work.

From when I first got into graphics, I immediately dismissed DirectX because of platform locks. I wish that more developers had this same stance of refusing all options with abusive practices like platform exclusivity.
by elric | 2025-10-06 06:42:47+00:00
It's only bullshit if you're certain that the electrical installation passes muster. I've seen many installations that are downright dangerous, mostly in older homes and cheap apartments. There's a reason for the 800W limit, that's a little over 3A and shouldn't cause any fires in even the flimsiest of wiring. But erring on the side of caution is not a bad idea when it comes to electrical safety.
by richardfey | 2025-10-06 06:43:08+00:00
I don't take sides on the opinion of BE vs LE, but why would the kernel devs be in charge of deciding how a hardware platform design would look like?

Are they in the design commitee for RISC-V?

Imagine the lawn mower deciding to stop running because it detects a type of grass that the lawn mower creators didn't like.
by ranma42 | 2025-10-06 06:44:11+00:00
Not OP, but I installed a "Balcony solar" 1.4kWp panels 2.4kWh battery system on my parents garage. The only subsidy was the tax free purchase of the components (we did file for an additional tax break with the city, but they had already run out of funds for that because it is so popular). You also save a lot of money on installation costs.

Cost breakdown:

- 400 EUR 2.4kWh 48V battery

- 320 EUR 4x 360W solar panels

- 200 EUR 800W microinverter

- ~200 EUR for helping hands when getting the panels onto the flat roof

- 160 EUR flat roof mounting equipment

- 153 EUR solar cable, connectors and crimping tool

- 115 EUR MPPT charge controller and cables

- 95 EUR electrics (e.g. fuses, dc/dc converter for OpenDTU)

- 50 EUR other assorted costs

So about 1693 EUR in total.

Total yield after 1.3 years: 1715 kWh (including power fed back into the grid)

Of that, discharged from battery: 488 kWh (battery already paid back ~146 EUR)

At the current energy costs, 1715 kWh would be ~514 EUR imported from grid
by FooBarWidget | 2025-10-06 06:44:24+00:00
It's kinda ironic. Back in the days people would advocate for server grade hardware because it's more reliable. Then cloud and Kubernetes came and you were supposed be able to handle failures, and treat servers/pods as cattle, not pets. But major cloud providers are still using server grade hardware, and passing on the costs to customers?

And in my experience EC2 is not that reliable. I have Hetzner dedicated servers with more uptime than EC2 nodes.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-06 06:44:40+00:00
Germany did one simple thing (uncharacteristically) which is removing all the bureaucracy here. Just go ahead and do it. It's fine.

Cost in the article is cited at 550 euro. I just browsed amazon.de and you can buy complete plug and play kits here in Germany for as little as 239 euro. Most kits are priced between 300-350 euro. I did not see a many kits over 500.

I pay about 70 euro per month for electricity. If it saves 10% per month on my bill (7 euro), this would earn itself back within 3 years. At 5% it's 6 years. Not bad for something that costs next to nothing and is pretty much plug and play. You are not going to get very rich from this obviously. But it's kind of cool. Too bad my balcony faces east and is mostly covered by the shadow of other buildings. I can barely grow plants there.
by D-Machine | 2025-10-06 06:44:49+00:00
You're right, seahorse emoji is almost certainly in the training data, so we should amend my explanation to say that "seahorse emoji" is not just close to the training manifold, but almost certainly right smack on it. The rest of what I said would still apply, and my explanation would also to apply to where other commenters note that this behaviour is emitted to some degree with similar other "plausible" but non-existent emoji (but which are less likely to be in the training data, a priori). EDIT FOR THIS PARAGRAPH ONLY: Technically, on reflection, since all fitting methods employ regularization methods, it is still in fact unlikely the fitted manifold passes exactly through all / most training data points, and saying that "seahorse emoji" is "very close" to the training manifold is still actually technically probably most accurate here.

You're also right that it is a long discussion to say to what extent LLMs are statistical or probabilistic, but, I would maybe briefly say that if one looks into issues like calibration, conformal prediction, and Bayesian neural nets, it is clear most LLMs that people are talking about today are not really statistical in any serious sense (softmax values are scores, not probabilities, and nothing about pre-training or tuning typically involves calibration—or even estimation—in LLMs).

Yes, you can use statistics to (help) explain the behaviour of deep models or certain layers (usually making assumptions that are of dubious relevance to actual practice), but geometric analogies, regularization methods, and matrix conditioning intuitions are what have clearly guided almost all major deep learning advances, with statistical language and theory largely being post-hoc, hand-wavey, and (IMO) for the purpose of publication / marketing. I really think we could de-mystify a huge amount of deep learning if we were just honest it was mostly fancy curve fitting with some intuitive tricks for smoothing and regularization that clearly worked long before any rigorous statistical justification (or which still clearly work in complicated ways, despite such an absence of statistical understanding; e.g. dropout, norm layers, the attention layer itself, and etc).

Just, it gets complicated when you get into diffusion models and certain other specific models that are in fact more explicitly driven by e.g. stochastic differential equations and the like.