MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by viraptor | 2025-10-15 12:40:52+00:00
I really don't believe we're in a situation where a company can exploit product availability and pricing data, is pushing enough volume to make it worth it, can process that information effectively, yet cannot hire someone on Fiverr to write a scraper in a few hours.

> 'Why hand your competitors data on a silver plate'?

To lessen the issue from the article and free up server resources for actual customers.
by K0IN | 2025-10-15 12:40:53+00:00
After building my first Serverless/Cloudflare worker app, this is why I migrated to Deno. Deno enables you to run the same codebase in deno (self-hosted/local) and in deno deploy (serverless platform from deno).

I wanted my app to be self-hostable as well, and Cloudflare worker is a hard ecosystem lock to their platform, which makes it undesirable (imo).

Here is a link to my reasoning from back then: https://github.com/K0IN/Notify/pull/77#issuecomment-16776070...
by cedilla | 2025-10-15 12:41:48+00:00
You're mixing up historic costs with current costs. As an illustration: the moon landing cost just $25 billion dollars, the Manhattan project even just $2 billion, what do you think a project of these scales would cost today?

You're also mixing the status quo with your (unclear) desire of how the world should be. Germany spent the last 80 years to build up an energy grid built on coal – nuclear peaked at 30%!. Of course they emit more CO2 today compared to the French!

But if anything, that's an argument for why Germany should start agressively building out renewables (aggression there was abandoned 20 years ago by the Merkel admin).

> 3 trillion or more till 2045

Looking at decades is a surefire way to get big numbers. But depending on your starting points (I guess 1999 during SPD/Greens coalition), that's just €60 billion per year. A lot of money but not exactly shocking.

> The idea to produce wind in the south of Germany is part of such madness.

Even the state of Bavaria - not exactly known to be mad for wind power - classifies more than half of its area as containing locations suitable for wind power. Of course that's nothing compared to Lower Saxony, but that's why they aim for total installed capacity of just 6 GW by 2050 (source for all that is the Bayrischer Windatlas issued by the, again, very sceptical of wind power, CSU government of Bavaria).

You're really just decade old fud against renewables. Do you really think that in the whole of 70 thousand square kilometres of Bavaria there are no points where the wind is strong enough 150 m above ground to produce power profitably? Because that's just not true. And 6 GW, by the way, are just one to four thousand modern turbines. Across the largest state of Germany. There's nothing mad about that at all.
by vbezhenar | 2025-10-15 12:42:07+00:00
> Do you feel the same way about app stores too, like AppStore or Windows Store?

AppStores are good enough, as long as they're optional file hosting and censorship service and do not change actual application.

So basically I want no middle-man between developer build and my computer. If developer uploads their application to AppStore and the app gets downloaded to my computer unchanged, that's fine. If some unrelated person pulls sources from github, alters them, builds them and ships them to my computer, that's what I don't like.

> What is your preferred way of downloading/installation applications and keeping them up to date?

Best way is statically linked binary available for direct download (many Golang and Rust apps are distributed this way directly from github). I check for updates when I feel like it, which might not be the best way, so some automatic update reminders are welcome, but by no means are necessary.

Second best way is targzipped directory which I unpack into something like ~/apps/idea and then it keeps itself up to date automatically.

Another thing that I don't like about package managers is that they spill application files all over filesystem. That's also wrong. Files which belong to application must be kept in one place. Ideally separated by chroot-like mechanisms.
by goodthink | 2025-10-15 12:42:11+00:00
My advice to little sites: Basic Auth stops bots dead in their tracks. The credentials have to be discoverable of course, which makes it useless for most sites, but it's not that inconvenient. Once entered, browsers offer to use the same creds on subsequent visits. I have several apps that use 3D assets that are large enough for it to become worrisome when hundreds of bots are requesting them day and night. Not any more, lol.
by jacknews | 2025-10-15 12:42:27+00:00
No, some Cambodians are seeing a very sizeable benefit, probably the standard 20% that the leading family cream off of any major investment in the country.

And BTW it is not just the Chinese, there are innumerable other operators, including a whole bunch of smaller 'startups'.

They operate because Cambodia openly accepts it, and takes a cut, not because they are somehow so clever as to disguise the real business being conducted in closed-up apartment blocks.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-15 12:42:53+00:00
Yes, there is a prevailing south-westerly wind in the UK. The air comes in from the tropics and comes over the UK.

From wiki:

> Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of England and Scotland are generally the mildest, wettest, and windiest regions of the UK, being closest to the Atlantic Ocean, and temperature ranges there are seldom extreme. Eastern areas are drier and less windy

But it being very windy isn't really conducive to building wind farms. You want (a) shallow seas (b) stable and continuous wind. That's why if you look at the map of where wind farms are situated they big offshore farms are concentrated on the east coast of England and Scotland, mostly from Norforlk upwards: https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/wind-farm-rare-earth-magnets/

It's not that you can't build them on the west, it's just easier.
by derf_ | 2025-10-15 12:42:57+00:00
There are four main levers for improving an ML system:

1. You can change the training data.

2. You can change the objective function.

3. You can change the network topology.

4. You can change various hyperparameters (learning rate, etc.).

From there, I think it is better to look at the process as one of scientific discovery rather than a software debugging task. You form hypotheses and you try to work out how test them by mutating things in one of the four categories above. The experiments are expensive and the results are noisy, since the training process is highly randomized. A lot of times the effect sizes are so small it is hard to tell if they are real. The universe of potential hypotheses is large, and if you test a lot of them, you have to correct for the chance that some will look significant just by luck. But if you can add up enough small, incremental improvements, they can produce a total effect that is large.

The good news is that science has a pretty good track record of improving things over time. The bad news is that it can take a lot of time, and there is no guarantee of success in any one area.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-10-15 12:42:57+00:00
> The new promise of crypto is helping organized crime or sanctioned individuals/countries with payments, and it's delivering!

It's not even new - Bitcoin right from the start was explicitly created to replace a centralized system used by criminals to evade currency controls. Bitcoin's creator(s?) saw that the various governments were eventually able to shut that down and set up Bitcoin as a decentralized system to avoid that problem.

It's not a flaw in crypto that criminals flock to it - it is built into the very design. This story shows that it is not perfect but to criminals it is the best that they have.
by perilunar | 2025-10-15 12:43:35+00:00
Why do trenches need to be dug across the countryside? Put them alongside existing roads and rail lines. Same with above-ground power lines. It might make them a bit longer, but the ‘eyesore’ is already there, and we can avoid making new ones.

(Re rail lines — if you build power lines over existing rail lines you could also electrify the rail route at the same time, and get rid of the diesel locomotives).
by SonOfKyuss | 2025-10-15 12:43:59+00:00
I mainly only ever go on Facebook to buy/sell things on marketplace these days. Since it is the default landing page, I do see my feed and notice that it does have very little content from my actual friends. It’s mostly ads and “things I might like.” It got pretty awful for a while but it does seem to do a decent job once you block people and give feedback on posts/ads. It’s still pretty useless, and I avoid it as much as possible, but at least now it’s not hitting me in the face with graphic, hateful memes and misinformation every time I log in
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-15 12:45:00+00:00
What did your internal discussion conclude for the question "Why did we not take a step back earlier and think, why are we doing it this way?"

Im genuinely curious because this is not singling out your team or org, this is a very common occurrence among modern engineering teams, and I've often found myself on the losing end of such arguments. So I am all ears to hear at least one such team telling what goes on in their mind when they make terrible architecture decisions and if they learned anything philosophical that would prevent a repeat.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-15 12:45:15+00:00
I think the idea of connecting wind turbines directly to hydrogen electrolysers when they are producing an excess is an interesting idea.

Stops the power being wasted ( though obviously hydrogen generation is less efficient than direct use ), and also creates a stored form of the energy for less windy days.

BTW also not suggest a hydrogen everywhere energy economy - use it centrally to augment/replace gas powered backup.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-10-15 12:45:30+00:00
I feel like a lot of our (EU) legal structures are totally inadequate for long term periods of peace. Eventually everything gets bloated and ossified and vested interests gain more and more influence/control.

Existential threats always seem to have an interesting way of unlocking progress.

Just look at how quickly Germany was able to build the north sea LNG terminals in the face of the russian gas crisis [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7u4rhjVJoI
by belter | 2025-10-15 12:45:32+00:00
Popper’s rule is not falsifiable for the same reason a definition can’t define itself. Falsifiability judges claims, not the rules for judging claims. Mixing those levels is like asking whether the rules of chess can checkmate themselves.

In category theory terms, it’s a type error, applying a rule defined within a system to the meta-level that defines the system itself.

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/object-level-and-meta-level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatheory
by jacquesm | 2025-10-15 12:46:03+00:00
A disconnect isn't a huge deal, most houses have one but they don't have a lock-out position and that's a must for an islanding operation and you'll need inverters that are happy to produce power even when the grid isn't present. Those are not the norm, but you can buy them (I'd recommend Victron). You'll also need a fairly large battery to stabilize the whole thing, without a battery you'll see massive voltage fluctuations as the inverters try to adapt to load without the required low internal resistance backing, so I would definitely recommend against that unless you like buying new stuff every other week.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-15 12:46:15+00:00
While I do not think big corps would go for it, I believe you have something there that could:

1. Appeal to some of the crowd here 2. Potentially run in the background as meta layer for llm ( as crazy as that sounds, the annoying reality is that it is happening already, but in the most annoying way possible 'worst of all worlds' version )
by kijin | 2025-10-15 12:46:37+00:00
Caniuse.com looks wrong in this case. It marks old versions of Internet Explorer and Android browser as either unknown or not supporting Referer, when in fact they only lacked support for hiding the Referer in potentially insecure situations. That's the point I was trying to make above. Even old browsers send it, even when they shouldn't. This behavior is uncontrollable, even by potential attackers.

A missing Referer header probably doesn't mean much one way or another. But you can at least block requests with Referer pointing to URLs outside of your origin. This fallback would seem preferable to the fail-open policy described in the article (request always allowed if neither Sec-Fetch-Site nor Origin headers are present).
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-15 12:46:38+00:00
Arguments like this are nothing new, and they're all paper-thin.

Here the core argument fails because it assumes ALL extraterrestrial civilizations would face identical technological limits and motivational constraints -- none would build detectable megastructures, none would colonize extensively, and none would maintain beacons. This is fundamentally inconsistent with the paper's own "Copernican mediocrity principle," which predicts significant diversity in civilizational trajectories, motivations, and capabilities; if even ONE exceptional civilization exists among potentially thousands, the "mundane" explanation collapses.

Really, all it takes is one exception to the rule. Just one. A species goes crazy and creates Berserkers, and there you are. (Is our own really THAT unlikely to do this? lol.)

And, despite how it's dressed up, the paper has nothing to do with physics. It's based on sociological priors (shared "lack of desire," boredom/fear,), and the conclusion is baked into the premise.

IMO even stuff like the Planetarium hypothesis is much more likely than this. In any case you must suspend disbelief.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-15 12:46:46+00:00
Yeah they claimed the associated hardware for it was noisy. I don’t want to link to the actual comments because that’s kind of mean spirited, I’m just pointing out that I’ve heard people complain about the noise from solar and it’s pretty wild to me. I’ve been in close proximity to pretty large arrays and in plenty of homes with them on rooftops. You don’t notice them at all. They also don’t make the air around them unbreathable
by billy99k | 2025-10-15 12:47:03+00:00
The problem with every basic income program is in the long term. Eventually, generations of people are receiving basic income and relying on it and

1) will never vote against it (and politicians will use it as a weapon against anyone that suggests it). 2) It's ever expanding and will become unaffordable and unsustainable 3) inflation will destroy its value over time

I also believe that if universal income becomes common, you forfeit your right to vote while accepting it.
by api | 2025-10-15 12:47:08+00:00
Any pseudo-UBI that is not actually universal will create a distorting perverse incentive for people to fake qualifications for it. There will suddenly be a lot of “artists” who don’t do much, debasing the definition of artist.

Just do UBI. Politicians just can’t help hanging conditions on it and making it complicated.

“But some people will sit around and do nothing!” Yes and they already do, including at bullshit jobs pretending to work. The punishment for a life sitting around doing nothing is a life wasted doing nothing.
by sgarland | 2025-10-15 12:47:38+00:00
Sure, but there are some fundamentals about latency that any programmer should know [0] (absolute values outdated, but still useful as relative comparisons), like “network calls are multiple orders of magnitude slower than IPC.”

I’m assuming you’re an employee of the company based on your comments, so please don’t take this poorly - I applaud any and all public efforts to bring back sanity to modern architecture, especially with objective metrics.

0: https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-10-15 12:47:40+00:00
Yes a huge chunk of the blame falls on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, etc

And bordering countries like Thailand are running into issues where people are getting trafficked through Thailand to these other countries. So it's actually ruining the reputation of Thailand and lots of Chinese people are wary of traveling to Thailand because of it

To provide a bit more context what happens is Chinese people will give fake job offers to their fellow Chinese and then basically kidnap them when they arrive to Thailand and take them to another country to work in a scam center
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-15 12:47:43+00:00
Someone is to blame for approving the use (or unapproved use) of a tool/process that breaks the law, same as today. When I worked in a regulated industry, we kept records of all inputs and decisions made and an auditor would do random checks that the results matched our documented methodology (afaik that documentation was submitted to/approved by either an auditor or the regulator).
by michalpleban | 2025-10-15 12:48:32+00:00
You just need to specify a secondary address of "1" when loading the file, so that it loads into the memory area specified in the header instead of the default location.

This was rarely used with the tape though, but rather with autoloader programs on the disk - there would be a specially crafted program that loaded itself info the system stack or variable area and overwrote some vectors, so that it would be automatically run without the need to type RUN:

LOAD "*", 8, 1 : REM 8 is the disk drive and 1 is the secondary address

I consider this mostly a party trick, but it was cool when we were kids ;)
by nchmy | 2025-10-15 12:48:38+00:00
Yeah, I'm very amenable to this take. WordPress, for example, is infamous for having extreme backwards compatibility. But that often results in many sites being on ancient versions of php (and surely other tech as well). I'm of the opinion that they should all be running currently-supported versions of php and everything else. If you can't use my plugin because your server is shit, so be it.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-15 12:48:39+00:00
If you think this is relevant, then solution is obvious: Increase taxes on small wages until people can't effort rent and rents will decrease. Hint: it's not relevant.

Housing benefits must be spent on housing. People can use UBI any way they want. With UBI, people can more easily move from expensive cities if housing is not affordable, and then rents and prices must adjust.

The pricing of housing is defined by supply and demand. Every urban economist agrees that the solution is to build more housing. Rent controls don't increase the number of housing units; only building more increases the housing supply. It does not have to be affordable housing; just build more housing units and all price points eventually get an affordable house.

Japan is an island like the UK, but they built the infrastructure and enough housing. At the height of its asset price bubble around 1990, the value of real estate in Japan was higher than that of the entire United States. But they built enough to match the demand. Now their population is in decline, and there are empty houses at the edge of the cities.
by krizhanovsky | 2025-10-15 12:48:41+00:00
Hi,

thank you for the reply!

You can read about JA5 at https://tempesta-tech.com/knowledge-base/Traffic-Filtering-b... .

But the thing is that the hashes were just inspired by the work of John Althouse and there is no any relation.

Unfortunately, we didn't realize what "JA" stands for at the time we were designing the feature. We will rename it https://github.com/tempesta-tech/tempesta/issues/2533 .

Sorry for the confusion.
by dominicrose | 2025-10-15 12:49:06+00:00
I'm no expert in security, but I'm guessing if you install an app on a Windows Desktop computer it can do more chaos faster and more discreetly than pixnapping can on Android.

If you use the same password on two websites, any one of the two websites can use it to log you it in the second website (if it doesn't have an extra layer of security).

On paper security is pretty weak yet in practice these attacks are not very common or easy to do.
by duxup | 2025-10-15 12:49:24+00:00
I'm going to try to pivot away from these weird-o US GOP fear ... bait? they throw at the world and ask:

Are people finding AI LLMs even capable of maintaining focus enough to have even a semblance of a relationship with?

Granted I'm mostly coding and looking up video game guidance with LLMs lately but I find they get confused and can't maintain much of any long term memory that makes any sense.... stories of "relationships" sound very strange in that context.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-15 12:50:09+00:00
> Why would politicians do any of that? Did United States House of Representatives invent anything?

Most industries in the US developed due to state and federal government subsidizes and industrial strategy.

You can see this with the development of semiconductor clusters in Oregon, Arizona, and New York in the 1990s-2010s because of state level industrial policy, the development of the telecom hub in Dallas TX in the 90s becuase of Texas's state level industrial policy to leverage the telco boom, and historically Michigan and now South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and TN's industrial policy for automotive manufacturing.

Furthermore, this ignores the impact that the IRA and IIJA subsidizes and investment promotion had in bringing European manufacturing industries to the US at the expense of their European operations - so much so that both France and Germany lobbied at all levels of the US during the Biden admin to try and kneecap the policy.

> All these EU companies are all private enterprises and they are %100 from a country

Absolutely, as are companies in the US yet our states have been open to leveraging industrial policy where possible in order to attract and retain investments.

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I am under no illusion that the EU is a country. Heck, if you re-read my initial comment that is my point.

I know that it is Germany, France, Netherlands, etc who are setting policies, but the EU at a macro-level can help solve the coordination problem that exists amongst individual EU member states to develop industrious policies.

That said the current status quo needs to end - either member states need to admit the EU as a central body is powerless and return to the pre-2000s vision of the European Union, or admit that a unified Europe is ideal and centralize.

The current status quo is the worst of both worlds, because the delimitation of power is wonky, and leads to nation state-EU clashes.
by nixaster | 2025-10-15 12:50:23+00:00
I’ve been building SmartBox Organizer to solve a simple but annoying problem — not knowing what’s inside all my storage boxes.

The app lets you number boxes, add items, tags, and photos, then search or browse to find things instantly. It’s built entirely in UIKit and SwiftData, designed to stay fast and minimal without any external dependencies.

CloudKit sync is still in development, but everything else is ready to try. The goal is a simple, native way to manage physical storage — for home, garage, moving, or collections.

I’d love feedback from other developers or makers — on both UX and architecture
by jcattle | 2025-10-15 12:50:48+00:00
No. Steering demand will not work. Unless by steering demand you suggest forcibly moving millions of people to Scotland.

You have an intermittent power source (wind), far removed from where the energy is needed, and you do not have sufficient electric transmission capacity.

Heat pumps or EVs far removed from the source of generation will not do you any good. You need load where the energy is produced or you need more transmission capacity.

The situation GB has is that there is load, and there is enough renewable generation on the grid to meet that load, however they do not have the capability to bring the electricty to where the load is. You can lessen the demand, but the generation would not get less through that. The only benefit of that would be that you wouldn't have to spin up gas plants, but the same amount of wind energy would still be lost.