MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway173738 | 2025-10-15 13:19:00+00:00
Yeah that’s pretty much how it goes everywhere. You sacrifice a lot of speed to keep everyone working at 100% of availability because you have to have multiple sites and leave some sites idle. So you may see the same process but slower in other places. For example a framing crew might not be available right as the foundation is finished so there’s lag between the foundation crew and the underfloor. But modern tract house construction is an assembly line where the crews move and the material is fixed in place.
by blitzar | 2025-10-15 13:19:04+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch

> This includes switching between 'peak' and 'off-peak' meter registers as well as controlling the supply to dedicated off-peak loads such as night storage heating

1980's technology, recently switched off, I presume for internet based alternatives. The exact same principle applies, beats batteries as hot water tanks and storage heaters already exist.
by hylaride | 2025-10-15 13:19:04+00:00
I think we sort of agree, but have different lived experiences (no doubt because we're in different countries).

The crux, to me, is that healthcare isn't as patient centric as it should be, either because of "greedy" healthcare providers, families thinking more about themselves and not the patients, government/politics, combinations of all of the above, etc.

> Most large systems have comfort care order set, with opioid drips. Transition to hospice is readily available.

Most systems do, but some allow the end to be sped up more than others, either informally or formally.
by simonw | 2025-10-15 13:19:07+00:00
Yeah, they rebranded it "Apple Intelligence" but this press release appears to be mostly using AI in the same (vague) way that the rest of the industry does.

Also just noticed this:

"And now with M5, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iPad Pro benefit from dramatically accelerated processing for AI-driven workflows, such as running diffusion models in apps like Draw Things, or running large language models locally using platforms like webAI."

First time I've ever heard of webAI - I wonder how they got themselves that mention?
by nagisa | 2025-10-15 13:19:10+00:00
I suspect what they are alluding to is the perverse incentives that materialize when the market does not have an ability to adapt to real costs incurred based on the relative location between generators and consumers.

Food is a bad counter example here, as retailers are not prevented from adjusting their prices the further away you choose to live off major population hubs. OTOH electricity in many cases costs the same in the entire country (incl. UK.) This means that energy consumers are not incentivized by these expenses to consider the real costs of the grid. They will rather build a new factory/etc close to London where they might expect to have access to better workforce pool instead of in Scotland right next to the overproducing turbines.

NIMBYism against new grid infrastructure would also largely disappear overnight if the market actually made economic incentives (in a form of reduced electricity prices/fees) for people to accept infrastructure bringing that electricity to them. The way things stand today – when electricity costs the same to everybody in the country – of course you wouldn't want any works in your vicinity.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 13:20:04+00:00
First, salaries for teachers must be compensated for the fact that teachers get three months off for summer amongst many other holidays that other workers do not get. Also, teachers get regular salary increases and have generous pension plans. I know several teachers personally that retired after working for 30 years and now have pensions paying 75% of their last highest salary for the rest of their lives, including survivor benefits.

Second. Screen Time causes many issues in schools. Not the least of which is the distraction they causes children in the classroom and between classes. Another issue with screens and schools is the cost of these screens and these Chromebook and all the IT and infrastructure that’s required in order to basically just read some material. Prior to chrome books you simply had books and the books lasted for decades, potentially with no further expenses required. The whole educational system is an absolute mess with tons of waste and inefficient processes. Adding technology in Chromebook on top of it all was not helpful.
by scrlk | 2025-10-15 13:20:05+00:00
> Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip and Dual Knit Band starts at $3,499 (U.S.), and is available in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage capacities.

Apple being stingy with storage (and RAM) isn’t new, but the base $3.5k spec with only 256 GB is extreme.

EDIT: clarity
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 13:20:21+00:00
Impressive project. I couldn't try it yet, because it requires a newer Rust source than exists in my distro, I'm not going to run random shell code as root and I haven't felt like it is worth to figure out how to bootstrap Rust.

I'm not sure if I would like it, because I care about reproducibility of commits so I want commit hashes to stay the same after a rebase. Does it support --committer-date-is-author-date ?

I'm also somewhat wary of additional layers on top of something.
by MagnumOpus | 2025-10-15 13:20:32+00:00
The utility will bill the 40p/kWh to its industrial customers (and residential customers on “agile” smart meter tarriffs), and the customers can decide whether they need the power even at 40p, or whether they shut down their bitcoin mine/aluminium smelter/EV charger/floodlights for those two hours.

In the longer term, price spikes like this incentivise the building of batteries - which might be marginably profitable most of the time but profit big time (and help big time) in periods of price spikes.
by ericrenan | 2025-10-15 13:20:35+00:00
I built wheretowatch.stream a site that shows where any movie or TV show is available to stream in over 130 countries.

It now includes dubbed and subtitled language information, one-click season-level streaming availability for TV shows, and full streaming provider catalogs you can browse by country.

The goal is to make it easy to see what’s available to watch anywhere in the world.

Feedback on accuracy, speed, or usability would be really helpful.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-15 13:20:41+00:00
Even if distinct against the cosmic background, a cloud of matter should show absorption / emission spectra, and we are very good at capturing spectography from very distant and dim objects, and we've discovered elements (helium) and determined the composition of distant objects (including the atmsopheres of exoplanets) by this method.

Light shining through dark matter, if that dark interacts with electromagnetic radiation, would show absorption lines, and I suspect they'd be of compelling interest. My understanding is that there's no observational evidence that it does. Given that we now know precisely where a dark-matter candidate is I suspect that there will be attempts made to identify any possible spectrographic signature which would confirm (if absent) or refute (if present) current understandings of dark matter's nature.
by dangus | 2025-10-15 13:20:49+00:00
Alright I’ll just head over to the dictionary.

Emphasis mine, as long as the item is periodic in nature it’s a subscription. The SQLite online membership has a term of access so it’s a subscription.

3: an arrangement for providing, receiving, or making use of something of a continuing or periodic nature especially on a prepayment plan: such as

a: a purchase by prepayment for a certain number of regular deliveries of something (such as issues of a periodical) or for a certain period of access to or use of something (such as an online service)

b: application to purchase securities of a new issue

c: a method of offering or presenting a series of public performances d (British): membership dues
by andy99 | 2025-10-15 13:20:49+00:00
I agree that a big flaw in the welfare state idea is that even if at first it’s really “universal”, eventually governments and people look at it like they are “giving you something” and start to attach conditions.

It’s easy to find talk, for example from people who think universal healthcare should be applied differently to people who live an unhealthy lifestyle.

There’s also all other consequences like vetting immigration that will crop up as well.
by ninjaoxygen | 2025-10-15 13:21:21+00:00
Yes, you're right, the last sentence is definitely a mistake on my part, I should have written less! Thanks for the links, paulirwin's sibling response is helpful too.

We had code using WCF and AppDomains that were always out of scope for .NET Core. WCF has a Core replacement now that is not quite one-for-one but AppDomains will never be supported in .NET Core / .NET 5.0+ and would indeed have to stay on 4.8 / 4.8.1 if they were still running.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-15 13:21:29+00:00
The last startup I worked at invested a ton of money- much of their marketing team's time plus a good chunk of development time for a few months- trying to "fix the funnel" in terms of conversions from these so-called leads.

They had plenty of other problems, including an unworkable business plan, but maybe they would have had more time to pivot before selling out for pennies if they'd not been chasing their tail so much.
by ivape | 2025-10-15 13:21:49+00:00
Infra will always be full of so much nonsense because it’s really hard to tell successful developers their code and system design is unusable. People use it because they are paid to do so usually, but it’s literally some of the worst product development I’ve ever seen.

AWS will hopefully be reduced to natural language soon enough with AI, and their product team can move on (most likely they moved on a long time ago, and the revolving door at the company meant it was going remain a shittily thought out platform in long term maintenance).
by emacdona | 2025-10-15 13:22:17+00:00
I'm not sure... but... maybe in this one single instance, I'm rooting for the bots.

I mean, it's burning ad dollars and causing advertisers to rethink their strategy. Who knows, maybe that will eventually lead to the realization that web pages that are 20% content and 80% ads are just luring bots and not customers.

On the other hand, the money being burnt is going to Google, Meta, etc... and helping fund massive surveillance infrastructure. To be honest, I'd prefer it if it all just went to shareholders. Heh, maybe that'll be the sign that we've hit peak surveillance infrastructure: Google and Meta dividend payments go up :-)

But I have trouble sympathizing with someone who writes this:

> Mouse Movements: Did the cursor move in natural, human-like arcs, or did it snap between points?

> Scrolling Patterns: Was the scrolling speed variable, with pauses and upward scrolls, or was it a perfectly smooth, mechanical glide?

> Time Between Interactions: How long did a "user" wait between clicking a link, hovering over an image, or adding an item to the cart?

I read that as: "We're tracking every movement, every hesitation... so that we can feed it to our models and determine how best to keep you addicted".

I knew it was happening, and I know I'm editorializing there... but they are getting closer and closer to just coming out and saying it.

edit: Added newlines in quoted part.
by buellerbueller | 2025-10-15 13:22:43+00:00
>Where I live, knowing who and where are the drug dealers and what people are involved in homicide have very real consequences for families and the choices you make for your children.

That's the thing: the (brown/poor) drug dealers that the local media tend to report on are typically not the majority of drug dealers. They're just the ones that are picked up by the police. Thats the whole point of the article we are all commenting on.

Your kids are more likely to be enticed into drugs by their friends, not by some rando on a street corner.

>Living in fear is when you are worried about things on the other side of the world, and such.

That's merely one type of living in fear.

>Local news is not fear mongering.

"The Haitian immigrants are eating the neighborhood cats and dogs". Yup, definitely not fear mongering.

>It is structured delivery of information which would have been delivered as gossip anyway.

Local news = gossip. This is not the dunk you think it is.

>Not to mention that news exposure helps the police finding dangerous criminals

Seems like a stretch

>For example serial rapists commonly use the same method with various random victims who are not aware of each other.

For known occurrences, I'd expect the police to be more aware of the full details than the local media, if only by sheer numbers. Cops probably outnumber local crime beat reporters by at least a factor of 10.

>Once the police and prosecution can connect several victims to the same perpetrator, they will have a very strong case.

Leaves out the whole suspect identification part of the process.

>Of course you will scoff at all this, since you personally might not have been the victim of violent crime, and therefore couldn't care less. But other people haven't reached that level of rational elevation yet.

I.e., living in fear. It's certainly less irrational than, say, someone who has not been a crime victim, I'll give you that. I'm sorry that you were a victim of violent crime, as your comment implies, but in all statistical likelihood the (local) news would not have prevented your victimization.
by fsflover | 2025-10-15 13:23:10+00:00
> but it ships with PureOS

Why does it matter? Yes, I would prefer that FSF collaborated with PureOS directly, but collaborating with postmarketOS also seems possible. There are enough blobs in Librem 5, which don't depend on the OS.

> which is ironic given your name

Indeed I'm quite surprised about the FSF actions lately.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-15 13:23:17+00:00
> The two major phone OS companies both stand on the shoulders of IBM PC, openly bootable hardware, and the fantastic software systems nurtured and built on top of these platforms — the BSDs, GNU, Linux, and the long tail of all that run on them. It is very troubling that their own platforms are the antithesis of being openly hackable.

I can kinda see a lineage from the PC to Android, if only by way of Linux being born on the 386. But Apple? They've been doing their own thing since day 1; I can easily imagine a world where IBM never existed and the iPhone is unchanged.
by vladdoster | 2025-10-15 13:23:38+00:00
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by vmaurin | 2025-10-15 13:23:56+00:00
I did work in the ad tech industry for almost 15y and big corp like Google/FB scam their user:

- they don't allow double tracking, so you have to trust their numbers

- if you look at IP from their "clicks", you see often a FB/Google datacenter IP range

- and for most of the traffic they might send you, they did just clever algorithm and heavy profiling to stole your organic traffic. So they get this "amazing" performance by claiming people that would have bought on your site anyway

I have seen and been working in companies trying do to the impact metrics well, but these are outliers

- websites showing ads are annoying their user and get no benefit of it

- stores/brands/people that want to advert pays a bug chunk of money for nothing - only the middle men are getting benefits
by 8organicbits | 2025-10-15 13:24:10+00:00
> I have never met a human that would straight up lie about something

This doesn't match my experience. Consider high profile things like the VW emissions scandal, where the control system was intentionally programmed to only engage during the emissions test. Dictators. People are prone to lie when it's in their self interest, especially for self preservation. We have entire structures of government, courts, that try to resolve fact in the face of lying.

If we consider true-but-misleading, then politics, marketing, etc. come sharply into view.

I think the challenge is that we don't know when an LLM will generate untrue output, but we expect people to lie in certain circumstances. LLMs don't have clear self-interests, or self awareness to lie with intent. It's just useful noise.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-15 13:24:49+00:00
I have one. I use it primarily for keeping my drawer full.

That said, it's AMAZING as a home theater replacement, other than an issue with internal reflections in the optics. So in dark scenes it gets a bit annoying.

If I lived in an apartment, I would absolutely use it in place of a large TV that eats up a lot of my space. Especially coupled with the airpods MAX and spatial audio. Watching a 4k 3d movie in it is mind-blowing. Most 3d you've ever seen was really 50% of 1080p, so it's a whole new world. Some of the Apple original content is also great. The thing with the submarine is amazing.

Personally I already have a full sized home theater, so I just use that. However, I'm willing to bet that in 5 years when it's time to upgrade the home theater I'll probably just be turning it into a library with some seats I can use a VR headset from. Who knows, maybe it will be a descendant of the AVP.
by TurkTurkleton | 2025-10-15 13:24:59+00:00
I mean, if you want to be like that, you could generalize that statement to "the fact that they believe there to be a single `$LANGUAGE_OR_REGION` accent means this can be quickly discounted as nonsense". Other languages, and other varieties of English, have regional variation as well, after all--although in the case of other languages, I'll grant that the accents of, say, two German speakers from different regions might not be as distinct from each other in English as they are in German.

At any rate, I was looking forward to finding out what the accent oracle thought of my native US English accent, which sounds northern to southerners and southern to northerners, but I guess it'd probably just flag it as "American".
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-15 13:25:02+00:00
And here I am, selling my Macbook M4 Pro to buy a Macbook Air and a dedicated gaming machine. I've tried gaming on the Macbook with Heroic, GPTK, Whiskey, RPCS3 emu and some native. When a game runs, the performance is stunning for a Laptop - but there is always glitches, bugs and annoyances that take out the joy. Needles to mention lack of support from any sort of online multiplayer, due to the lack of anticheat support.

I wish Apple would take gaming more seriously and make GPTK a first class citizen such as Proton on Linux.
by vardump | 2025-10-15 13:25:16+00:00
Probably gigabytes (GB) and not gigabits (Gb)?

Edit: gigabits indeed. Confusing, my old M2 Max has 400 GB/s (3200 gigabits per second) bandwidth. I guess it's some sort of baseline figure for the lowest end configuration?

Edit 2: 1,224 Gbps equals 153 GB/s. Perhaps M5 Max will have 153 GB/s * 4 = 612 GB/s memory bandwidth. Ultra double that. If anyone knows better, please share.
by basisword | 2025-10-15 13:25:16+00:00
>> And, as much as I like psychological wellbeing (who doesn't!) - saying that it's worth €80 million when you didn't actually get €80 million doesn't help things when it comes time to pay for the program.

Surely it's an €80m saving in something like health care costs or productivity?

Edit:

You've really ignored a lot in that RTE article.

>> measurable decline in reliance on social protection, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average

>> Participants were also 38 percentage points less likely to be receiving Jobseeker’s payments

>> income from arts-related work increase by over €500. At the same time, their earnings from non-arts employment fell by approximately €280

Finally, your complaint that there's no information on how to join the program - it's a pilot. People were selected, the pilot was run, and these are the results of it. Either they'll continue with the pilot to gather data, end the scheme altogether, or open it widely based on the data they've gathered.
by lossolo | 2025-10-15 13:25:26+00:00
You don't need experience and there is not really a lot to know about "distributed systems" in this case, that's basic CS knowledge about networks, latency and what "serverless" actually is, you can read about it. To be honest, to me it reads like people who don't understand the problem they're solving, haven't acquired the necessary knowledge to solve it (either by learning themselves or by asking/hiring people who have it), and seeing such an amateurish mistake doesn't inspire confidence for the future. You should either hire people that know what they are doing or upgrade your knowledge about systems you are using before making decisions to use them.
Ask HN: What's working for founders raising without warm intros in 2025?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-15 13:26:19+00:00
I keep hearing that “you need warm intros” to raise, but I’ve been seeing more founders closing rounds through cold outreach, content, and data-driven targeting.

Curious - for founders here, what’s actually working for you in 2025?

Are warm intros still essential, or are we finally seeing a shift in how early-stage fundraising happens?

(I’m building something around this problem and seeing interesting trends, but would love real stories from the community.)
by Hawxy | 2025-10-15 13:26:25+00:00
> however the 4.x stuff is definitely out of support [...] Sorry, I did not know they had actually brought non-Core ASP.NET forward into 5.0+

None of this is true, you've gotten yourself very confused. The only real change with .NET 5 was the "Core" name being dropped and the Mono runtime being merged in. .NET Framework 4.x is still around and is still fully supported for legacy applications.