MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m55au | 2025-10-08 01:00:34+00:00
I looked at tomorrow's (8th of October 2025) prices in Norway and Sweden. Northern Norway drops down to (negative!) -15 €/MWh at 17:45 while southern Sweden peaks at 190 €/MWh at the same time. So that's that for buying "from across the continent", let alone from your neighbors or even your own small country. I'm not sure that even the suggested reconductoring would help that much.

To answer ajross: I'm quite sure that the shutdown of Ringhals and Barsebäck in southern Sweden has had a much greater impact on their and likely southern Norway's prices as well than building for example 10 times the equivalent solar capacity in Spain. It is not even about losses, but just the grid capacity. Theoretically the prices in Nord Pool (from southern France and western Ireland to northern Norway and eastern Baltics) should be equal. As pointed out, in practice they vary wildly. And in principle it can get even worse. It would not be too unrealistic to have negative prices in northern Norway and rolling blackouts in southern Sweden at the same time. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader how the latter can even happen when Sweden has enough capacity to meet its power demand at that time.
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-08 01:00:39+00:00
> We should not allow parents to deny their children healthcare which leads to their permanent disfiguration. That's disgusting.

So instead we need to enable parents to allow healthcare to disfigure their young kids when they predictably get influenced from social media and their peers?

How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?
by jostylr | 2025-10-08 01:01:08+00:00
pro-communists want a system without competition. Pro-capitalists do want competition or at least no restrictions. People who are practicing capitalists would love to not have competition.

Think of a prize race. The people organizing the race and the audience want a highly competitive race. But the racers, if they are in it for the prize, would love to have little to no competition.

Artificial restrictions on who can do a thing is not good and it is violence behind, whether it is government or not.

Anarcho-capitalists are the true expression of the ideology of free markets.
by danpalmer | 2025-10-08 01:01:16+00:00
I'm disappointed in what has happened, but I think Bluesky/AT Proto presents a better direction and I hope that this is just a period of adjustment.

There are essentially two tiers of moderation on Bluesky – that provided by Bluesky themselves, and community moderation. The community moderation is powerful and I use it fairly extensively already, and my hope is that in the long term it's the community moderation that represents the bulk of moderation on the network.

The problem is that Bluesky are legally required, and required by app publishing platforms, to implement some moderation themselves. It seems like their approach there has been to focus on strict legalities, leaving the rest to community moderation. This is a good idea for the decentralized nature, but unfortunately some high profile individuals know how to fly under the legal limit while still being a pain. Then there's outrage at them not being banned even though community moderation thoroughly silences them for anyone who wants it. This results in hate being targeted at the Bluesky team... and eventually that hate turns into threats (perceived or real) and that results in bans. Now it looks like Bluesky are banning their critics while allowing dangerous people on the platform.

Bluesky are not without fault here. They've not communicated about this well, they've not pushed community moderation well enough, and they've posted some questionable rage bait. But I do understand where they're going and think the future is ultimately bright for AT Proto and the Bluesky network.
by duxup | 2025-10-08 01:01:26+00:00
Seems like the hard truth is all these alternate platforms that offer their technology as the reason to get on it ... it's just not a great selling point for someone who wants to post "woah watch out driving tonight, it's slippery out there" or cat pics. I think that's a lot of users.

The content of the posts and some level of moderation is the selling point.

Personally that's kinda a bummer, because IMO my biggest disappointment is that its just Twitter but little different. Same pithy posts and petty bickering:(
by rayiner | 2025-10-08 01:02:20+00:00
> However, Tesla vehicles got a $7,500 effective price hike just one week ago, when the federal US EV tax credit was taken away by republicans. Incidentally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent $200 million in political bribes to help make that happen, thus increasing the price of his company’s vehicles, and in fact making the “more affordable” Model Y actually less affordable than it was just last week.

A guy who makes EVs spending $200 million to help elect the party that doesn’t believe in global warming can be called many things, but a “bribe” isn’t one of them, lol. He was acting directly contrary to his self interest.
by halfcat | 2025-10-08 01:02:36+00:00
There’s an attack where you get signed up for mass marketing emails and your mailbox gets flooded with emails from mostly legitimate companies.

Say someone gets into an account you use to purchase stuff (Amazon, etc), but they don’t have access to your email account. They sign you up for this mail flood, then start buying stuff with your Amazon account, and legitimate notifications of purchases are lost in the noise with many thousands of emails from everything from Apple to Chuck’s Boat Rentals.

Using a unique and unguessable email lowers the chances of a more important account being affected (obviously at some point we’re splitting hairs).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-08 01:02:50+00:00
> I still think there's room for something better technically. Mastodon seems more true to the decentralized ethos but I've never quite gotten used to the server dependency experience.

There's more servers on Mastodon, yes, so in that way it is decentralized more. But as a user, I have a lot more sovereignty over my data on Bluesky than I get having my account on a Mastodon / fediverse. I can set up my own PDS quite easily, or move to another, or back to BlueSky hosting very easy. I appreciate this decentralization a lot.

And I have a much better chance of being able to analyze system behavior, understand propoganda networks on atproto/bluesky. Mastodon servers heavily discourage trying to view & understand the network, but Bluesky really lets everyday folks run and analyze the whole firehose, very very cheaply. Which is an incredible decentralization, a very powerful syndication that it's protocols enable, that's simply unmatched. Still, research is being done on both networks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507566
by opo | 2025-10-08 01:04:35+00:00
>...Also, I heartily disagree that utility scale solar is obviously cheaper. Transmission and distribution costs are the biggest cost on the grid, and utility scale solar needs to pay for that whereas residential solar drives down T&D costs.

If we are really at the point where distribution costs for utility solar make it cost anywhere near the cost of consumer rooftop solar, we have a real problem. If that is true, we probably need a different approach to decarbonize the grid. I don't think you are right.
by btbuildem | 2025-10-08 01:05:04+00:00
That's an absurd overreach. I can't figure out what the real motivation for this is.

> hostile state actors are stealing information and gaining access to systems that are critical to our national security and public safety

If they're hostile state actors, they've got internet access from elsewhere. It's a global network.

I am not dismissing cyber-threats, but perhaps I would weigh them differently. To me, the largest issue is the cultural influence and political meddling affected by the increasingly hostile state - Canada's southern neighbour.

A much better defence would be to quarantine or outright block access to the large social media platforms, and make space for homegrown alternatives. On balance, these players do more harm than good, and they're massive vectors for foreign political interference.
by vpShane | 2025-10-08 01:05:30+00:00
I put a lot of thought in to my prompts. I can code, definitely not as good as the AI or people here on HN; it's something I always enjoyed doing to tinker with things.

The AI agent in Cursor with Gemini (I'm semi-new to all of this) is legit.

I can try things out and see for myself and get new ideas for things. Mostly I just ask it to do things, it does it; for specific things I just highlight it in the editor and say "Do it this way instead" or "for every entry in the loop, add to variable global_var only if the string matches ./cfg/strings.json" I _KNOW_ I can code that.

But I like my little clippy.
by asa400 | 2025-10-08 01:05:47+00:00
Almost doesn’t matter what Google’s short term unit economics on AI are as long as their shareholders and board are OK with it. Google makes money hand over fist and can afford it. Microsoft is fine, Oracle is fine, TSMC is fine. These other shops are leveraged to the hilt, so they’ll be in a world of hurt if people stop buying, financing, or investing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-08 01:05:55+00:00
> Ad hominen is when you use an irrelavent insult in an argument

No, it’s when you argue the truth based on dismissing the speaker. So if Carl is an idiot, and Carl says cats are real, it would be ad hominem to say cat’s aren’t real because Carl said so. (Dismissing an argument isn’t ad hominem per se. Neither is name calling. It’s concluding based on not liking the speaker.)
by ignaciovdk | 2025-10-08 01:07:14+00:00
Hey, thanks for asking.

I’d say both roles are possible, though the original intent of Arc was indeed to act as an offload / long-term store for systems like TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Kafka, etc. The idea: you send data into Arc to reduce storage and query load on your primary database for ML, deep analysis, etc.

But as we built it, we discovered that Arc is really good not just at storage but at actively answering queries, so it’s kind of hybrid: somewhat “warehouse-like,” but still retaining database qualities in performance. I feel that saying a database its too much, but we are going on that direction.

IoT is absolutely one of the core use cases. You’re often ingesting tens or hundreds of thousands of events per second from edge devices, and you need a system that doesn’t choke. Our binary MessagePack ingestion helps shrink the payload size and reduce parsing overhead, that allows higher throughput for writes, which is crucial in IoT scenarios.

Let me know if you want to explore this a little more, not for selling you anything, at least not yet, I would love to understand your use case. Let me know if you are open: ignacio[at]basekick[dot]net
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-08 01:07:21+00:00
When you think about it, Trump has always been the complete opposite of a lifelong Republican. Mostly he was a Democrat but even then he was more of an opposite to respectable Republicans than most other Democrats.

Anyway, it has now been well-proven year after year that Trump hasn't got a shred of the integrity that Reagan had.

And Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers whithout harboring nearly the hatred that Trimp spews constantly.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-08 01:07:27+00:00
Sure there's bad uses, but putting yourself out there, on the public record, and cherishing those others around us doing the same is, in my view, divine.

I can't imagine the mindset that wouldn't want to be capturing some of the amazing wonderful world about them & the thoughts in their head & sharing them with others. I find these views about walking away from putting yourself online, seeing only the harm, as being deeply nihilistic & running away from clear amazing basically spiritual human value.
by pcl | 2025-10-08 01:07:31+00:00
I, individually, am certainly much more productive in my side projects when using AI assistance (mostly Claude and ChatGPT). I attribute this to two main factors:

First, and most important, I have actually started a number of projects that have only lived in my head historically. Instead of getting weighed down in “ugh I don’t want to write a PDF parser to ingest that data” or whatever, my attitude has become “well, why not see if an AI assistant can do this?” Getting that sort of initial momentum for a project is huge.

Secondly, AI assistants have helped me stretch outside of my comfort zone. I don’t know SwiftUI, but it’s easy enough to ask an AI assistant to put things together and see what happens.

Both these cases refer almost necessarily to domains I’m not an expert in. And I think that’s a bigger factor in side projects than in day jobs, since in your day job, it’s more expected that you are working in an area of expertise.

Perhaps an exception is when your day job is at a startup, where everyone ends up getting stretched into domains they aren’t experts in.

Anyways, my story is, of course, just another anecdote. But I do think the step function of “would never have started without AI assistance” is a really important part of the equation.
by eggbrain | 2025-10-08 01:07:42+00:00
I’m glad someone called this out. “Let’s just use vanilla rails” — sure, except basically every version of rails for the past 5 years has decided to completely change how they do JS.

So many gems are also still built on sprockets — even when you want to use the “rails” way, you are stuck now with a hodgepodge of JS anyways.

It’s a mess — maybe one day we’ll get it fixed, but don’t pretend it’s not partially rails fault as well.
by hollerith | 2025-10-08 01:07:45+00:00
Limiting doctor availability is an effective way to limit total cost because most expensive health care goods and services require a doctor to order or prescribe the good or service. I.e, until the patient gets enough time with a doctor for the doctor to realize that the good or service is necessary (then prescribe or order it) the insurer does not need to pay for the good or service.
by hedora | 2025-10-08 01:08:03+00:00
Also, divide the cost of the product by the replacement interval.

I have some landfill android tablets that are too slow to run the moral equivalent of flash games. The iPad’s I have (all low end models) are older than the androids (in one case, 2x older) and still work much better.

Retail price / years supported is pretty comparable for Apple and Android. On top of that, you can get deals on “discontinued” newly manufactured apple devices, and used ones as well.

I have many complaints about Apple, but value for money isn’t one of them.
by hunvreus | 2025-10-08 01:08:18+00:00
> 1. Is there a support for deploying into a multiple machines? If so, how does it work?

Working on that, you should soon be able to have a central /dev/push instance and remote nodes managed by it.

> 2. Where and how secrets are stored?

Environment variables are stored in the DB but encrypted using Fernet (https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush/blob/main/app/models.py).
by alganet | 2025-10-08 01:08:38+00:00
> talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case

There's a problem: money.

If you have lots of it, you have less difficulties than others in many, many areas. Things go easier for you.

Also, money has nothing to do with being good at something. You might have inherited it, or won the lottery, or stolen it.

Perks of being wealthy that you take for granted and might not even notice could be offering you tremendous advantages compared to less resourceful peers.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-10-08 01:09:21+00:00
(Terence Tao is his name.) Yes, he takes a rather measured view on AI, but I think for myself, not in terms of what X great person thinks. He is smarter than I am (you probably are not even aware how amazing he is, frankly, and I only say that to convey my immense admiration), and more successful by a million times, and is a millionaire with a tenure track job, and he's basically a fields medalist among fields medalists. The effect of AI on his life is very little compared to the effect of AI on mine. I am always impressed by Terence Tao, but there's basically no life lesson the average mathematician can glean from him. He is truly astounding (to be fair, there are a few other astonishing people in mathematics).

The truth is that with a few more innovations, even Terence Tao will have little to add to an AI's problem solving ability. I will personally enjoy having mathematics explained to me by the AI, but it will be in relative poverty and material insecurity caused by the AI.

A recent AI data point occurred this last weekend with many coming together to answer MathOverflow post, because Terence Tao answered it with some tedious parts done by AI. https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115325229364313459

I think his tone is optimistic, but falsely so.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-08 01:09:28+00:00
The brain implements some kind of fairly general learning algorithm, clearly. There's too little data in the DNA to wire up 90 billion neurons the way we can just paste 90 billion weights into a GPU over a fiber optic strand. But there's a lot of innate scaffolding that actually makes the brain learn the way it does. Things like bouba and kiki, instincts, all the innate little quirks and biases - they add up to something very important.

For example, we know from neuroscience that humans implement something not unlike curriculum learning - and a more elaborate version of it than what we use for LLMs now. See: sensitive periods. Or don't see sensitive periods - because if you were born blind, but somehow regained vision in adulthood, it'll never work quite right. You had an opportunity to learn to use the eyes well, and you missed it.

Also, I do think that "clever initialization" is unfortunately quite plausible. Unfortunately - because yes, it has to be simple enough to be implemented by something like a cellular automata, so the reason why we don't have it already is that the search space of all possible initializations a brain could implement is still extremely vast and we're extremely dumb. Plausible - because of papers like this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057

If we can get an LLM to converge faster by "pre-pre-training" it on huge amounts of purely synthetic, algorithmically generated meaningless data? Then what are the limits of methods like that?
by neilv | 2025-10-08 01:10:02+00:00
Can someone please characterize the likely political and cultural atmosphere of Canada for the next decade?

If the US continues its current trajectory for a couple more years, will Canada be a welcoming beacon of goodness?

(Obligatory great scene in Handmaid's Tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJEjrNB2iTA&t=40s )
by neom | 2025-10-08 01:10:13+00:00
I was thinking about that last point in the context of dating this morning, if my "chatgpt" knew enough about me to represent me well enough that a dating app could facilitate a pre-screening with someone else "chatgpt", that would be interesting. I heard someone in an enterprise keynote recently talking about "digital twins" - I believe this is that. Not sure what I think about it yet generally, or where it leads.
by Alupis | 2025-10-08 01:10:37+00:00
A company I worked for stopped doing physical catalogs too - after having done so for a very long time. The cost to produce the catalog was insane, and had quite a bit of dedicated staff working on it full-time. Making a catalog is a specialized skillset, and has little overlap with the business' core competencies, such as website administration.

Over time, the revenue attributed with the physical catalog declined year over year. People said they wanted the catalog, but it didn't translate into attributable sales. The ones that did order from the catalog were often the smallest, insignificant orders the company took in. The website and online advertising are where customers gravitated towards, and remain today.

The amount of people that actually want a physical catalog, even for IKEA, I would wager pales in comparison to the amonut of people that want to browse the catalog on their phone or tablet. Pricing changes, stock comes and goes, products get discontinued, colors/materials are changed, etc. The website is always up-to-date, the physical catalog... is not.

When I read comments like yours, I interpret them as people wanting nastolgic items more than marketing materials or ordering guides. The costs for the company are just too high to produce those anymore; well over $2 per catalog someone up-thread mentioned - we're talking more like $10-$20+ these days (not accounting for anything except print costs) for a full-color, glossy/professional catalog with hundreds of pages.

I have serious doubts IKEA printing catalogs today would garner any new business. They would give away (or perhaps sell) some copies to existing, long-time customers with a fond memory of the brand and their catalogs - and I'm afraid that's it.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-08 01:11:16+00:00
> 1 custom domain (<online-nickname>.xyz)

I got banned by .xyz once. I did manage to get it cleared up, but being banned by the TLD itself is pretty unpleasant. It's hard to even figure out that's what happened. And then I had to "prove" I was no longer distributing malware, with a list of what things I'd done to clean up the site and prevent further malware distribution - which was difficult as I was never distributing malware to begin with. Just a static website for a wordle variant, no ads or other 3rd party content.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-08 01:11:17+00:00
Except that we're not going to be "coding" very soon. We're going to be firing off jobs that get tracked in VCS, gated through CI, then reviewed by a panel of agents with different specialties. At the end you'll have a few select sections of code that these agents flagged for human review, and thousands of lines of stuff that you don't need to worry about.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-08 01:11:47+00:00
The water doesn’t actually come from the glacier, though, right? It comes from the sky. The glacier hogs it for awhile. The glacier melting won’t cause the rain to stop falling.

The slow release mechanism does seem useful, but a human built reservoir can do the same thing. It doesn’t really seem like something to worry much about? In isolation, anyway. As a canary it might be worrying.

I do feel confused at how everyone is convinced the warming is man made. Like the climate is never static, so it’s either warming or cooling all the time. Our understanding of what happened in the past climate-wise is based on a bunch of methods that are impossible to actually test directly (since we can’t time travel). And the granularity of temperature data I’ve seen from the past is suspect - the short time period we are dealing with here could be an oscillation of a frequency that gets lost in the sampling granularity that actually happens. I’ve done a fair bit of reading looking for the definitive proof, but I just haven’t found it. I’m a bit spectrum-y though and social consensus or pressure doesn’t really work on me, which is kind of unfortunate, I don’t say that proudly. Were you convinced by data on this, or have you just been taught that the experts say this is what is happening? Can you help me?