MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-04 22:46:21+00:00
Well it also came out that the flotilla contained no aid, across any of the 40 vessels that were stopped (https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-869330). And that the flotilla effort was funded and organized by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood (https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-867685). And after all this fake performative stuff, we’re supposed to trust their claims that they were mistreated?

> Malaysian activist Hazwani Helmi and American participant Windfield Beaver gave similar accounts at Istanbul Airport, alleging Thunberg was shoved and paraded with an Israeli flag.

Somehow I doubt “Windfield Beaver” cared when naked women that had been raped and mutilated were paraded around the streets of Gaza on October 7. But wrapped in a flag? That’s torture /s
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-04 22:46:30+00:00
>But do the HOAs really need financial enforcement mechanisms intended to seriously harm people, and to punish them as judge, jury and executioner?

No, they don't. But to be fair, your local enforcement agencies have the same power to unilaterally fine people insane amounts of money. So in a technical sense it makes sense that HOAs would have the same unilateral power to screw people.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-10-04 22:46:44+00:00
I just think HOAs tend to favor the vocal minority. If you’re really active and just be very nosy, you can have more influence. I would be livid if someone told me (outside of city/state regulation) what I can do and can’t do after I make a purchase worth hundreds if thousands of dollars.

I know many who lived in HOAs - one of them got fined for having plants by their condo door, another for putting something on their patio, etc. Who makes up these dumb rules?

And it costs $500/mo easy. This is why most people hate HOAs.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-04 22:47:38+00:00
The most important thing about this, and other similar overreach, is that there is no democratic constituency for this. It's a waste of time, almost a distraction, picking at the rationality of these constant attacks. The important thing is to find out exactly who they are doing it for.

Who asked for it? Let them speak up, and explain why they are so special that governments should and do obey them. Starmer doesn't personally care about any of this (or anything.) No Labour MP cares about any of this. Who is convincing them to override democracy to create tools that make it easier to override democracy? Force them to drop the pretense that they have come up with this themselves, and that they personally believe that it is important.

Start by finding out who the hands were who wrote the actual text. The MPs themselves, and the network of important nephews and nieces that work on their respective staffs are too stupid to write this stuff. Who are the minds that are crafting law for supposed democracies from whole cloth?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-04 22:47:48+00:00
The corporate bootlickers demand conformance to the technofeudal shoguns instead of using alternative solutions like signing / hash checking archive containers. It's a Hobson's choice meaning foisting corporate developer program EULAs and payments on FOSS projects and release signing workflow or non-participation.

And, to be fair, Homebrew maintainers in particular have a history of Apple-adjacent asshole attitudes. And it's not just my experiences and interactions with them to offer as evidence, but also similar experiences faced by a MA_NG client platform engineering department's manager who tried to support that environment but ultimately walked away because of their rude, unprofessional, and uncooperative attitude and total lack of understanding of system engineering.

Currently, one workaround for brew formulas that the HB geniuses don't understand how to configure, pearl clutch cancel for petty reasons, or don't care to support properly can still be released as third-party taps.
by axx83 | 2025-10-04 22:48:22+00:00
You've hit on the exact problem. The friction of interoperability is the real wall.

Now, imagine if that friction disappeared. Imagine 90% of your codebase is safe, using traditional collections and strings, while only the critical 10% uses high-performance, native data types. What if moving between these two worlds was a natural, compiler-guaranteed feature, not a manual, error-prone task? How amazing would that be?

This vision of seamless coexistence is the core of my proposal. I've detailed it in a new, more focused post and would love for you to take a look.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477324
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-04 22:48:32+00:00
It’s a test of the EU’s resolve and unity. And it’s not really even a new issue. I remember HN was discussing GPS interference in Europe that was traced back to Russia (or at least originating from their territory). That should have been considered an act of war. But in general NATO has been soft on asymmetric warfare. Look at all the acts of intellectual property theft or cyberattacks from China on the US. There was barely any news coverage, let alone response from American leaders. Each small incursion that pushes further just ends up being normalized.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-04 22:50:31+00:00
City of course. Over here, across the pond, cities make local noise regulation and have a local city municipal police (not state police) which is responsible for a minor complaints and general oversight. Of course the only reason why it works is that it's a city, so fewer officers can cover a lot more people-per-area than in the widespread suburbs. Same story like with mass transit, neither is economical in the suburbs, they are too expensive compared to cities.
by hluska | 2025-10-04 22:50:44+00:00
There is nothing remotely moderate about saying “advertising is a cancer”. It removes a massive industry from relevance, and condemns a whole lot of performance artists to unemployment. Advertising creates space for artists and sponsored performance spaces are the only performance spaces in many cities.

This reads like elitism. There is amazing art being made with a zero dollar ad budgets and amazing art being made with massive budgets. Those of us in small cities only get to see art because of advertising.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-04 22:50:54+00:00
And by what mechanism can you prevent google from disabling adb? Or implementing a situation like iOS where sideloaded dev apps only last for a week and are signed with your personal developer key tied to your credit card?

There's nothing to stop them, and absolutely no reason to think they won't take away adb sideloading in the near future.
by 8organicbits | 2025-10-04 22:51:34+00:00
https://feedland.com/?username=robalexdev is the closest variant I know. You can see who else subscribes to feeds that you follow, and see what other feeds they like. The current version doesn't have a recommendation engine, but you could easily build your own.

> so I'm never showing up without something new.

I like a feed I can fully consume and then move on, filling it with endless content would make it less valuable to me.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-04 22:51:34+00:00
Yeah, but:

1) Governments are often much easier to sway. You can get a newspaper or TV station involved. You can show up to open meetings. You can campaign against the incumbents. While you can porbably technically do some of that against rogue HOA boards, it's going to be a lot harder.

2) Governments are usually large enough not to make things a personal vendetta. That's clearly not always true; I'm only talking about trends. Meanwhile, the HOA members are your neighbors, by definition. Get on the wrong side of them and they can easily get involved in everything you do.
by jostylr | 2025-10-04 22:51:35+00:00
As far as I can tell, Austrians believe that analyzing based on individual preferences and actions is the key. I haven't made it very far into Mises Human Action, but I gather that was the starting point and Mises developed many theorems based on that. So if you say that allowing individuals to maximize their preferred choices given the constraints around them is "the market" and artificially restricting those choices, using acts or threats of violence, is "the government", then yes, I suppose that is their framework. One of the main things they would probably push back against is the notion to think of the market or government as independently existing entities. The government is just a collection of individuals who use violence to impose their will on others in a way that most of the society is agreeable to, at least to some extent, and, because they are individuals, they have their own preferences and actions which can also be analyzed in this framework. If you think people in the market do things that are nasty when all the actions are voluntary (and that certainly can happen), shouldn't you be even more skeptical of those who are willing to engage in violence to force the things they want to come to be to happen?

Austrians would also object to the notion of something being perfect. But they do analyze situations in which an external force interferes with the normal voluntary flow of actions and generally find that the stated outcomes (probably not the actual desired outcomes) of those external forces is generally not met. For example, rent control is often argued for as about helping more people to be housed and, empirically, that usually is not what happens when rent control is enforced. One could argue that the real intent of rent control is about making life better for the well-connected at the expense of the less well-connected and that probably does happen regularly.
by axx83 | 2025-10-04 22:52:26+00:00
Hi rohansi,

I wanted to reply to you directly. I was truly impressed by your comments. You understood the precise, deep technical problem I was aiming at—the GC's 'stop-the-world' pauses affecting even non-GC threads—even from my admittedly clumsy and brief initial post. Thank you for that.

What I failed to convey properly, however, is that this performance mechanism is just one small consequence of a much larger idea. It's a foundational piece of a complete architectural model I've designed to address the fundamental pains of the current microservice paradigm.

I have now finished a full manifesto that lays out this entire vision. It includes a deep critique of our current ecosystem and presents the philosophy for a new style of programming intended to solve these core issues.

Given the depth of your understanding from that first article, I would be genuinely honored to get your critical feedback on the full proposal. If you're interested, the new post and discussion are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477324

Thanks again for your incredibly insightful comments.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-04 22:52:40+00:00
I think the issue isn’t that HOA fines are a problem. It’s more that some of them have corrupt governance with little transparency and limited ways to break up a group of people that all vote and act in alignment to each other rather than the interests of the community. Another problem is that in some areas, virtually all construction comes with HOAs so there isn’t an element of choice for buyers to opt out. That’s maybe a problem with competition, especially where big builders buy up large tracts of land and build hundreds of homes, all subject to the HOA.

If people have choice and reasonable guarantees of good governance, then I don’t have an issue with HOAs. In practice, it’s a mixed bag. But we should remember that even though we hear outrageous HOA stories, by and large, most of them function without such frustrations. So restricting all HOAs in response to those few stories, feels like it will backfire.
by alganet | 2025-10-04 22:52:49+00:00
Maybe it is, I don't know.

I was talking about your scenario of space-faring silicon-based life. If Venus can support this different life, then it should be already there.

It's hard enough to find signs of life similar to ours (something familiar, carbon, metabolism), so if there is some completely different life somewhere in the solar system, it's unlikely we would be able to recognize it at first glance. So unlikely, that is almost pointless to postulate its existence.

Therefore, our best shot is to look for life similar to ours (because we know its tells). I think that's where the idea of a habitability zone comes from. It's not excluding the possibility of life existing outside of the zone, it's just making it easier for us to look (because looking everywhere means considering things we can't possibly understand).

That idea has been slightly changed since we started to hypothesize life on moons like Europa and Enceladus though. They are outside the classical habitable zone, but they have other possible means for producing liquid water that don't rely on the heat of a close star (tidal friction and residual core heat).
by simonw | 2025-10-04 22:54:42+00:00
This is a solved problem. The answer is to add extra relevant information to the context as part of answering the user's prompt.

This is sometimes called RAG, for Retrieval Augmented Generation.

These days the most convincing way to do this is via tool calls.

Provide your LLM harness with a tool for running searches, and tell it to use that tool any time it needs additional information.

A good "reasoning" LLM like GPT-5 or Claude 4 can even handle contradictory pieces of information - they can run additional searches if they get back confusing results and work towards a resolution, or present "both sides" to the user if they were unable to figure it out themselves.
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-04 22:55:07+00:00
I get having it walk you through figuring out a problem with a tool: seems like a good idea and it clearly worked even better than expected. But deliberately coaxing an LLM into doing math correctly instead of a CAS because you’ve got one handy seems like moving apartments with dozens of bus trips rather than taking the bus to a truck rental place, just because you’ve already got a bus pass.
by voidfunc | 2025-10-04 22:56:10+00:00
A few problems:

1. baseball competes in a sea of media and multimedia options and its competition has been growing ever since TV moved into the cable-era. Now it also has to compete with internet, games, social media, etc. Theres only so much time and attention for people to focus on it.

2. Long season. I love baseball but you can go 2-3 weeks not watching a game and have missed nothing.

3. Cost to go to games plus location of stadiums in car-centric areas often means painful commutes to the games for most Americans and then bringing two kids is like making it a $400 affair between parking, food, souvenirs etc. That's expensive for a lot of people.

The exit of people from the cities into the burbs in the mid-20th did a lot of damage to the idea of going to a game.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-04 22:56:54+00:00
Assuming the linked products are the products in the picture, the strip is a product from Southwire that is claimed to be rated for 20 amps / 2500W and southwire is an established and known brand. It is listed as being for “temporary” installations and I’m not sure I’d want to run that load through it all the time, but it’s probably not that bad.
by myonim | 2025-10-04 22:57:19+00:00
I built Winfast because I was tired of how time-consuming and frustrating it was to find good jobs on Upwork. I’d spend hours scrolling, refreshing, and applying — only to realize I’d missed great opportunities because they were buried or already taken.

I wanted something smarter — a tool that could notify me instantly when the right jobs appear, help me filter out the noise, and even speed up the proposal process. So I decided to build it myself.

Winfast exists to save freelancers time, boost their chances of winning, and make the whole Upwork experience faster, simpler, and more rewarding.
by axx83 | 2025-10-04 22:58:23+00:00
Hi HeavyStorm,

Thank you for the excellent and critical questions. You've pointed out the biggest flaw in my first article: it failed to properly connect the proposed concepts to the broader "myriad of problems" in the microservice ecosystem.

I have written a new, much more detailed manifesto that is almost entirely dedicated to explaining that connection and the architectural vision. I believe it addresses your first point directly.

But I also want to be transparent with you in particular. You asked about the low-level details—the "how" of C# in a non-managed world, memory management, and how it compares to Rust. You are right to ask for this. That new manifesto is still the philosophical 'why', but I want to assure you that I have already completed a full technical whitepaper that covers the 'how'.

The challenge is that the whitepaper is currently in my native language (Vietnamese), is quite long (around 150k characters), and I am still revising it before I can begin the translation.

So, I would like to propose a path forward. First, I would be grateful if you could read the new manifesto and give me your honest critique there. It lays out the complete architectural argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477324

If, after reading it, you trust the vision a bit more, I hope you'll be patient for a short while longer until I can properly translate the technical whitepaper which addresses your remaining concerns.

Alternatively, if you're curious to see the raw draft now, you can likely find it by searching my username plus the keyword "Viblo". You could then use an LLM for a preview translation, but I must give a strong disclaimer that I cannot promise the quality of an automated translation of an unrevised draft.

Thank you again for the sharp feedback. It's exactly the kind of critique that is needed.
by amluto | 2025-10-04 22:58:54+00:00
Ugh, these two-lead LFP batteries without any sort of BMS communication are fairly nasty devices. The inverter/charger does not know the maximum safe charge or discharge current, the cell temperature, the cell balance state, or really anything else except the voltage. If the actual BMS in the battery (assuming there’s one in there at all) wants the charger to slow down, it has no way to tell it to do so. The charger has no way to know what it needs to do to get the cell balancing circuit (if any) to work. And the BMS (again, assuming it exists) can’t even communicate the state of charge to the inverter/charger.

At least this particular setup uses a somewhat dignified 24-ish volt setup instead of the usual awful “12V” that is often seen in this genre of battery.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-04 22:59:06+00:00
The 2019 Dayton shooter used a semi-automatic AR-15 and killed 9 people and wounded 17 others in the 30 seconds it took from his first shot fired to his death at the hands of police. 30 seconds to respond and kill the shooter. You cannot really ask for a more ideal response time than that. But 26 lives are directly impacted by those bullets, never mind the number of folks impacted because it was their loved ones being killed. All so conservatives can cosplay as freedom fighters at the shooting range.
by caymanjim | 2025-10-04 22:59:11+00:00
This can be done safely if you know how to compute the correct wire gauge for the distance, and don't overload the circuit. You can easily and safely run 15A via a proper-gauge extension cord from a 3kW inverter to a fridge or any number of other individual appliances at once.

Where this is potentially going to cause trouble is people who don't understand how electricity works, or that different wire gauges exist, or how many watts various appliances use. The kind of person who takes a tiny lamp extension cord and plugs a power strip into it, thinking that more sockets will provide unlimited power.

The photos in this article are scary. A 2500W power strip with a bunch of crap plugged in? Exactly the kind of scenario you don't want to see. And talking about running a fricken induction cooktop off that, along with a fridge? The photo and text imply that you have near-unlimited power.
by marcyb5st | 2025-10-04 23:00:34+00:00
You want what is called a AC coupled system. Basically, you put something like a charger/inverter/mppt just upstream of your breaker box so that downstream of your breaker box you don't need to change anything. You can find solutions that are a all-in-one like this one [1]. This particular product outputs up to 5kw on a single phase to your breaker box. So if you need more power you either wire 3 of them in a 3-phase system, or in parallel on the same single phase.

Finally, from the settings you can stop the unit(s) from sending power back on the grid so that you don't have to deal with that hurdle of changing the meter, permits, ... .

I linked an example wiring here [2]. I don't work for Victron, but I am just an happy customer :)

[1] https://www.victronenergy.com/inverter-charger-mppt/multi-rs... [2] https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Multi_RS_Solar/en/app...
by Krei-se | 2025-10-04 23:01:23+00:00
No, that's because your relay overwrites part of the header which makes dkim strict break. Change to relaxed or don't modify the header on your relay.

Outlook business will accept your mail, Outlook private may filter, but the rates fluctuate so heavy i suspect its rules based on user behaiviour/interests. I dono, cant have both spamfree inbox and 0 false positives.
by oscaracso | 2025-10-04 23:01:43+00:00
The discussion in the linked post is incomplete. Obviously with the use of pedals the pianist has some direct control over timbre. The real question is whether, without the use of pedals, a pianist can control timbre with any degree of independence from volume. The reason to suspect that they cannot is that the action of the piano actually releases the hammer before it strikes the string (otherwise depressing a key for a long time would mute the string with the hammer instead of sustaining the note). It stands to reason that the hammer's initial angular momentum in flight cannot encode separately a note volume and note timbre.

So the mystery is the opposite: given that a mechanical understanding of the piano suggests that the pianist has no control of note timbre, why does it appear that they are able to adjust note timbre? I have my own speculations about this question, but it is not taken up by the article [1] which in fact only speaks of 'perceived timbre.'

In my own opinion, for the reason already given, there is no magic by which timbre is controlled through pressing the key daintily or pressing it with gusto, given that identical volume is achieved in each case. However the sonic environment is very complex and the pianist has considerable control over it through the dampers' connection to the keyboard, independent from the pedals. The process of listening is also very complex. The sense experience of hearing a staccato note is not the same as the sense experience of hearing the first 0.05 seconds of a note that later turns out to be sustained, so even if in fact the state of the piano is identical between the two cases within those 0.05 seconds I may perceive the timbres as different as my brain integrates the whole staccato note into 'one sound' while the sustained note is received as a continuous tone diminishing in intensity.

Ultimately I find the argument that they do not control timbre convincing, and that the piano (sans pedals) allows for as much control over timbre as the harpsichord does over dynamic. But as it is a very expressive instrument there is an illusion that is present for performance that cannot be reproduced through isolated notes. It's not a bassoon.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425073122
by nine_k | 2025-10-04 23:02:12+00:00
Since the inverter is 3 kW, and the battery is 2.5 kWh, you don't run many appliances off it. Hopefully it shifts your air cooler's peak of consumption away from the most expensive evening hours. You can probably cook at daytime directly from solar power.

When the battery is depleted, you, I suppose, just pull the plug from a battery-fed power strip, and push it into a regular socket.

I would put 3x the battery capacity, which would add about $500-600 to the cost.