MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-10-02 09:19:52+00:00
> We dropped nuclear because it didn’t deliver. There’s no grand conspiracy.

?

Look at France again... It gave them unlimited cheap, clean energy and nuclear weapons, all at once. And then again, Germany, even if they went full renewables right now it would take hundreds of years to make up for the past pollution

> Given the outcome of Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3, Hinkley Point C, Vogtle and Virgil C. Summer it is abundantly clear that the nuclear industry doesn’t deliver.

Hm weird, we had 0 problem delivering back in the days when we really cared and had politicians with long term visions about their countries...

> Why spend hundreds of billions on dead-end subsidies to ”try one more time!!!”???

Look at renewable subsidies lol... https://www.mr-sustainability.com/stories/2020/the-sky-is-th...
by Galford | 2025-10-02 09:20:42+00:00
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by Vinnl | 2025-10-02 09:21:30+00:00
I've only been using Immich for a little while, but it's been amazing to see how quickly its development has been going. Hard to imagine they had much technical debt to tackle.

> There are still a few items on our roadmap that we want to complete before the year ends such as auto-stacking, and achieving feature parity between the web and mobile app. We also have plans to start work on improved stack support, better sharing, group management, and ownership improvements, as well as many other enhancements.

That said, this sounds like they're not going to get the full 2025 plan done: https://immich.app/roadmap

Which is totally fine of course, I'm still a very happy user. But I'm really looking forward to Workflows! I'd love to automatically share with someone all pictures that include them.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-02 09:21:44+00:00
Nuclear is expensive AF and takes decades to commission. You put outrageous amount of money in for 10 years then you have free electricity for 40 years. With renewables you get the free electricity much more quickly at lower price.

There's nothing inherently Chinese in renewables, there are European companies who build PV from scratch.

Also, the more renewable you use the more fossils you have for other things like fertilizers or medicine.
by Rochus | 2025-10-02 09:22:15+00:00
That's interesting. Did you have access to the QNX sources at the time and were able to study the QNX kernel and why it had a much better performance than Minix? Given your reference to DJGPP, am I right to assume that you have written your OS in C? (I wasn't able to download the source code and would appreciate to be able to download a compressed file from a "normal" web server). Since you made comparisons with the Minix version of that time, what conclusions did you draw from this, and what especially made your kernel "lightyears ahead" of Minix?
by baobun | 2025-10-02 09:22:55+00:00
In case author is here, some feedback: Minute 18 should be at ca minute 1. The first 50% of the episode feels like meandering fluff for someone who looked forward to hearing your take on gleam. Introing with your whole life journey as a programmer will make listeners drop. Just get to the topic. I get there's a couple of parallels and stories in there that tie in as comparisons to aspects you like with gleam but if you really find them relevant enough, cut them down and weave them in towards the end.

This is as a first-time listener. I might come back again, thanks for sharing!
by daveungerer | 2025-10-02 09:24:18+00:00
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by whilenot-dev | 2025-10-02 09:24:19+00:00
To not just link to another thread: The specialty of ljharbs issues sits somewhere between "JavaScript is a very dynamic programming language that grew a lot and quite fast" and "we cannot trust developers to do the right thing".

His libraries tend to build up on older runtime implementations and freeze every used functionality during runtime, so they provide "second-run safety" and "backwards compatibility". Developers disagree with some of its effects, such as a grown dependency tree and impacts in performance of multiple magnitudes (as measured in micro-benchmarks). ljharb seems to follow a rather strong ideology, but is a member of the TC39 group and a highly trusted person.
by graemep | 2025-10-02 09:24:29+00:00
IF he was the first to do the rolling balls down the slope it is still important.

He still made a major contribution, but if other people had done the "drop balls of the tower" experiment before his time, then the move to empiricism was underway and that does make his contribution a lot less.

To be fair, I think we often think of things being achieved by a big breakthrough by an individual when the reality was that the big breakthroughs are the result of lots of small changes - Newton's "shoulders of giants".

Interesting, looking up that phrase, I find that was not original either, but goes back to at least the 12th century.
by sethammons | 2025-10-02 09:25:23+00:00
In one of my economic classes at my university introduced me to the book Shafted: Free Trade & America's Working Poor. I think this qualifies as an advancement and one that is oft argued as a net good for global trade.

The author contends that free trade has become a tool favoring corporate interests at the expense of workers’ dignity, community, and fair participation in economic decision-making.

Beyond that, they illustrate that net economic gains _should_ be able to also lift those same workers, providing enough surplus for re-training, but it doesn't. The gains flow to the top and the workers left in a worse position.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310362.Shafted
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-02 09:26:10+00:00
omg tick tick tick.

Does everyone have this to some extent? Or is it really only a thing neurospicy folks experience? I have to run away from my wife when she's chewing loudly sometimes, the rage is real.

I've just realised that my hatred of foly in films is another symptom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(sound_design)) - can't watch films where this is overdone.

As others mentioned, noise cancelling headphones bring me so much peace.
by nylonstrung | 2025-10-02 09:26:21+00:00
> masculine sci fi novels focus deeply on engineering problems and all but ignore human or environmental ones

I'd say the Road is a full inversion of this in that it doesn't bother explaining why the world collapsed and purely focuses on how people are left to cope with it

It's a world where femininity and fertility have been completely eradicated and turned into a living hell by said survivalist men who vie to dominate what little is remaining

The only "good" to be found in it is the memory of the Man's wife and the family the child meets at its conclusion
by agedclock | 2025-10-02 09:26:45+00:00
It was never the norm. I've worked as a contractor/consultant in a lot of places and I saw two people that were "designers" that could write HTML and CSS. That is two people in 18 years.

> It is also true that since the introduction of modern frameworks we see significantly fewer designers who know CSS.

None of these people knew CSS at all. I am talking pre-2012. Bootstrap version 1 or 2 was out at the time and 960 grid css was only out a few years before.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-02 09:27:07+00:00
JS is not a realtime language.

setTimeout() does not actually guarantee to run after the elapsed time. It merely gets queued for the next async execution window after that timer elapsed. Hence it can also be off by infinity and never get called - because JS is single threaded (unless you use a worker - which comes with its own challenges) and async windows only open if the main thread is "idle".

Usually, this is very close to the time you set via setTimeout, but it's very frequently slightly off, too.
by superdocs1 | 2025-10-02 09:28:08+00:00
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by agedclock | 2025-10-02 09:29:49+00:00
I have never heard the term designer used to describe anyone doing anything else other than creating PSD mockup and later on wire-frames.

I have worked in large corps and smaller agencies as a full stack / front-end dev for about 18 years.

This wasn't just the case in my part of the world. There were prominent online publication that were extolling the virtues of designers embracing creating their designs in CSS and HTML and moving away from using Photoshop.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-02 09:31:07+00:00
Not sure whether you'd consider it natural, but I first noticed this with the sound of running taps. The bathroom was next door to my bedroom and I'd often get up and turn the taps off if someone left the bath running... not sure if anyone ever noticed!

Not sure if it's the same for everyone, but for me it's caused by an over-focus on the sound. Once I've noticed it, it's like the sound gets louder and louder...

[edit] I'm fairly sure my Dad was on the spectrum, and the sounds young kids make would make him very distressed, shouting or banging etc. so I don't think it's synthetic vs natural sounds.
by nylonstrung | 2025-10-02 09:31:55+00:00
Yeah it's hard to say he's "relishing" violence when he a very well-researched depiction of complete horrific and genocidal chapter of the Manifest Destiny period that was essentially forgotten.

I see the violence as a refutation of the idealized, sanitized version of the West popularized in mainstream Westerns. Where law and authority = good, even though the Glanton gang was funded and armed by US authorities
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-02 09:32:04+00:00
Let's understand how the French grid works.

France generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.

What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because France's nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.

Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.

Have you heard of the Baumol effect?

Construction haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while salaries have increased to keep up with productive industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Looking at the actual data renewable subsidies are being phased out in the EU. Down to €61B in 2024 from peaking at €89B in 2020. They just aren’t needed anymore.

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/api/fil...

Also truly love the link to a 2020 article from oilprice.com. Hiding your bias isn’t your thing?
by idoubtit | 2025-10-02 09:32:51+00:00
Among the famous writers that I know through their writings, I'd expect Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco to have read many thousands of books, because that wide culture was a major element of their fictions. The later did have 50,000 books at home, but the former became blind and probably didn't own many books.

With simple math, reading 2 books each week leads to at most 7,000 over a lifetime. If Denny McCarthy's guess is right (read 85% of 20k), his older brother read about 4 to 5 books a week, every week, from teenager to his old age.
by Rygian | 2025-10-02 09:34:52+00:00
> If you take one lesson from this, it’s that you can always say no.

I fully understand why this is true, but it seems to ignore any retaliative measures that the management could take against the person who says no.

With the benefit of hindsight, any such retaliation would be weaker than ending up in an orange suit. But the person has to find the guts to say "no" without that hindsight.
Show HN: OS Library for Conditional Gaussian Mixture Modelling in Python
by sitmo | 2025-10-02 09:35:25+00:00
I've been working on a compact Python library called cgmm for regression modelling with Conditional Gaussian Mixture Models. It allows flexible, data-driven regression beyond Gaussian and linear assumptions.

It integrates with scikit-learn, comes with documentation and examples, and is available on PyPI.

Key features:

* model non-Gaussian conditional distributions

* capture non-linear dependencies

* handle heteroscedastic noise (variance that changes with inputs)

* provide full predictive distributions, not just point estimates

The current release added:

* Mixture of Experts (MoE): Softmax-gated experts with linear mean functions (Jordan & Jacobs, “Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts and the EM Algorithm”, Neural Computation, 1994)

* Direct conditional likelihood optimization: implementing EM from Jaakkola & Haussler, “Expectation-Maximization Algorithms for Conditional Likelihoods”, ICML 2000

Examples now cover a range of applications:

* ViX volatility Monte Carlo simulation (non-linear, non-Gaussian SDEs)

* Multivariate seasonal forecasts (temperature, windspeed, light intensity)

* Iris dataset + scikit-learn benchmarks

* Generative modelling of handwritten digits

Links:

Docs: https://cgmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

GitHub: https://github.com/sitmo/cgmm

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cgmm/

I'd love to get feedback from the community, especially on use cases where people model non-Gaussian, non-linear data.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-02 09:35:34+00:00
C++ constexpr is a nasty trap. Because after all it says right on the tin that we're getting a constant expression right? So it's as powerful as Rust's const right?

Nope - of course the usual suspects insisted they needed a way to write non-constant expressions and have that somehow "work" anyway. So whereas a const function in Rust genuinely is constant, a constexpr function in C++ might not be, and we only find out whether it was if we force the compiler to do the operation at compile time. If we leave any gap where it can just delay until runtime that's what happens.

You can literally write a random number generator, label it "constexpr" and a modern C++ compiler goes OK, that's not actually constant, but you didn't technically promise it was constant you just used this useless "constexpr" keyword to gesture performatively at the idea of compile time evaluation without promising anything so we'll only complain if you try to use it in a context where I must know the concrete value at compile time.
by Gravityloss | 2025-10-02 09:35:48+00:00
Good ideas. Boeing will probably not be involved much in those things? (Though I could be wrong...)

Probably innovative motivated people go to work in software, SpaceX, EVTOL startups or now AI and so on. Even Walter Bright moved already decades ago to software.

But it's interesting to look at Arianespace's VTOL rocket development. Can a "dinosaur" do rapid innovation, when there's massive enough incentive? The answer looks like, maybe!
by noduerme | 2025-10-02 09:36:07+00:00
It's the part about chaining them to rocks and letting them freeze to death which I don't like. Someone who takes decent care of their animals would not allow that situation to occur in the first place. How they dispose of the dogs after allowing them to die at home is not really the issue. We aren't talking about the middle of a sled ride, or a death by hazard or necessity. The definition of cruelty, if you don't understand that, is that this creature is under your control, serving you, and the minimum you can do is to respect it. If you don't, then you disrespect life. And if you disrespect life then you disrespect your own.

Yes, we kill animals for food or for fur. But disrespecting them is a completely different, very ugly and disgusting thing. Because we are like them.

One mark of a psychopath, btw, is cruelty to animals..And the reason is not simply a lack of empathy. It's a desire to do to other humans what you can do to animals. What you're missing is the fact that this can be done to you. You can be skinned alive, for example, or vivisected. You could be left to die somewhere frozen. No one would even care for your corpse. They'd just chuck you off a cliff.

For normal human beings, hearing things like that make them empathize with themselves. Therefore they don't want to inflict torment on anything else.

You're new here and maybe you're a psychopath. But I'm wasting my time trying to explain something anyway. What defines "cruelty" is not about life and death. It's about respect for the living and the dead, and essentially respect for yourself as a fellow animal.
by haunter | 2025-10-02 09:36:40+00:00
What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal?

> High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution

Honestly all I want is

- Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file”

- Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”)

- Automated (AI?) photo tagging
by fschuett | 2025-10-02 09:37:11+00:00
Rendering to SVG, at least that's what I did on https://fschutt.github.io/printpdf/

I am currently writing a WASM-ready PDF toolkit that can handle both HTML to PDF and then rendering PDF pages to SVG. However, it's not yet production-ready.

The underlying HTML engine is currently a severe "work in progress", but it gives me the low-level access that I need: https://azul.rs/reftest
by sitmo | 2025-10-02 09:37:43+00:00
A quick note on how cgmm relates to existing tools:

* scikit-learn's GaussianMixture models the unconditional distribution of data. cgmm, on the other hand, models conditional distributions (p(y|x)), which makes it more suitable for regression and forecasting tasks.

* Compared to linear or generalized linear models, cgmm can capture multi-modal outputs, non-Gaussian behavior, and input-dependent variance.

* Compared to Bayesian frameworks (like PyMC or Stan), cgmm is more focused and lightweight: it provides efficient EM-based algorithms and scikit-learn–style APIs rather than full Bayesian inference.

So I see cgmm as complementary, a middle ground between simple regression models and full probabilistic programming frameworks, with a focus on conditional mixture models that are easy to drop into existing Python/ML pipelines.
by johncoltrane | 2025-10-02 09:37:53+00:00
This is done in an effort to comply with what is commonly called "cookie law" (GDPR + ePrivacy directive).

Those texts don't say anything about cookie banners, though, only that users should be informed and have the possibility to make a choice. How that information and ability to make a choice are presented to the user is left to the site owner to decide.

For site owners, cookie banners are an easy way to comply without having to DESIGN that compliance into their site, which can be interesting but time consuming and expensive.

In theory, it should be possible to prompt the user for consent before storing something on their device but that would only work for stuff site owners have control over.

In practice, "cookies" are rarely used voluntarily by the site owners themselves but they are used a lot by the crap they add to their sites for tracking and so on via tag managers. And for that there is no better solution than a blanket cookie banner.
by metalman | 2025-10-02 09:38:15+00:00
poor speculation

there are multiple plausible pathways for the dicovery of iron and other metals, the most prominent bieng through the extreamly ancient discovery of porcelain, and baked pottery indipendently at numerous sites world wide, and there are many types of ores(rocks,dirt) and fluxes, such as sand,or salt...the list is impossibly long. It is always good to keep in mind that basic technological developments predate our species,the key technology is of course, fire. I have been instructed in various methods of exploiting the properties of fire and natural materials to achive a wide range results including smelting ore to getting durable finnishes and experimentation in the hardening of copper. Many people are out there right now,working with found materials and producing metals and other peoducts in startlingly large quantities useing purely ancient manual methods. Current state of the art metalurgical operations are optimised in ways that go way beyond anything imaginable to the casual observer and exploit exotic phenomina that is counterintuitive and invisible to the naked eye.
by addend | 2025-10-02 09:38:58+00:00
Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax?

Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00.

Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00.

In the Immich demo the map view lets me zoom and shows bubbles with the number of photos from an area but I see no way to select an area or bubble to explore just those photos in an album or temporary view. The map view does have a time range option (last N days or date range yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or months range.

Search view has advanced options with place dropdowns (country state city) but no map area rectangle option. Also has date range (yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or non-contiguous time criteria.

I think a photo viewer could implement the exemplified kind of searches in a slim way through a map view (user draws a rectangle) with sliders (year range, months range, time of day range) that ideally let the user set multiple ranges on one slider (march to may AND september to october). Ideally such combo criteria could then also be bookmarked and searched and the filtered in items could be batch operated on (tag, rename, delete).
by pjc50 | 2025-10-02 09:40:16+00:00
Lost in this discussion is that there is an economic target for a minimum level of unemployment. It's how inflation control targeting works.

People want inflation when it's their own wages, and they want labour supply to be constrained to achieve that. But as soon as the wage inflation feeds through to price inflation, they get very upset. Transient but significant inflation was one of the successful attacks on Biden's economic record, for example.

Wages are flat because it's policy for wages to be flat so that prices can be flat.