MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-02 15:10:23+00:00
Of which about all storage has been built in the last 2 years.

Grids tend to operate on the timescale of decades. Do you realize what a complete disruption of the grid storage is now?

Storage does now work as long as you can cycle it every couple of days.

Then we of course also have the backup of open cycle gas turbines. Low CAPEX and high OPEX. A good solution for backups.

Force them to run on decarbonized fuels like ammonia, hydrogen, synfuels or biofuels (with decarbonized inputs) when even the backup needs to be decarbonized.

You know, the exact same thing we use today to manage the yearly peak.
by clessed | 2025-10-02 15:10:36+00:00
It was May's plan to introduce gender self-ID that galvanised such a strong and rapid response against it, largely coordinated on Mumsnet, within its Feminism and Women's Rights (FWR) subforum.

In fact, the recent UK Supreme Court case which resulted in a ruling that references to "sex", "woman" and "man" in the Equality Act refer to biological sex (as in, a person's sex observed at birth), was brought by a small group of women who met on FWR.

More generally, I think much of the reason that the UK has been so successful in resisting and reversing policy that prioritises self-declared gender identity over sex is that we have a strong tradition of women's advocacy for single-sex provisions, that has been pursued regardless of other political affiliations.
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 15:11:18+00:00
It also goes the other way, though.

For instance, lots of Americans refused to sign up for the draft, which was illegal but prevented them from killing innocent people in Vietnam.

Or they helped slaves escape the South, illegal but stopped violence being used against them.

As for drug dealing, I'm not sure simple drug dealing is even considered a mala in se crime, absent some sort of fraud or dealing to incapacitated people. It used to be illegal to sell hemp, now you can legally buy it on the internet both federally and in the vast majority of states -- yesterday they were a "drug dealer" and today they're just a "farmer."
by nwellinghoff | 2025-10-02 15:11:48+00:00
Since this is “hacker” news. Just to let everyone know it is trivial to remove the tpm checks from the installer. You can do it manually or just download rufus and it has an option to remove them for you when you write an iso to a usb drive for install. Its a totally artificial requirement to drive sales. Windows 11 runs just fine on the older hardware. Like others have said windows ltsc is another great option. That being said…I agree its VERY annoying.
by DrPimienta | 2025-10-02 15:12:05+00:00
A big part of them leaving is the fact that the wages aren't actually that great.

I'm a programmer and have far less buying power than a Kmart cashier from the 70s had. I don't get a pension. They did.

There's no loyalty because we're all poor compared to every previous generation besides those literally living in log cabins.
by bitwize | 2025-10-02 15:12:55+00:00
At work, data, metrics, and KPIs are great for "fishing expeditions"—looking for reasons to fire you in case you start to become too expensive to want to keep around, or if middle/upper management just doesn't like you.

With that in mind, remember that corporate IT department knows everything you do on your work computer. Every email sent, every process started, every keystroke. Good luck!
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-02 15:13:12+00:00
This reduces to parsing PDFs, which is an unsolved hard problem.

At low volumes, my preferred approach is to select and extract text (copy/paste, perhaps using the poppler library for larger-scale work), dump that to plain-text and convert that (manually / scripted) to Markdown. From there you can get to PDF or pretty much any other format through tools such as pandoc.
by tamimio | 2025-10-02 15:13:23+00:00
There were plenty of proposals back in 2021 about having highways in the sky for drone delivery operations, at least in Canada, so such incidents are avoided, as relying on technology alone isn't enough and the risk plans are only to mitigate rather than eliminate the risks.

That being said, drone delivery will not really become a thing unless the endurance issue is resolved, like a new breakthrough battery technology that gives you at least 4 hours flight time (hybrid drones are noisy), as for any drone to have a proper impact, it should have three items checked: endurance, payload, and range. The last two are pretty much resolved by having modular payloads and flying over the internet, the first one is still pending.
by Archit3ch | 2025-10-02 15:13:26+00:00
The sentiment in the title resonates, but for consumer GPUs (the article is about server cards).

The recently leaked M5 benchmarks reveal a 35% faster GPU. These improvements compound, so you can get a GPU that's effectively twice as fast by waiting a couple of years.

Modern GPUs are the equivalent of local supercomputers, but the drivers, languages and libraries are still playing catch up. Imagine the audio processing you could do if only you could target that hardware.
by MonstraG | 2025-10-02 15:13:28+00:00
Yea, I think they (proton) just didn't properly read (misunderstood) the guidelines.

> 3.1.1.2 Password Verifiers

> ...

> 2. Verifiers and CSPs SHOULD permit a maximum password length of at least 64 characters.

In other words, if you want to put a max length, don't put 20, put at least 64.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-02 15:13:31+00:00
Likewise. 3950 cpu, 32gb ram, 2080 GPU. This runs everything 1440p just fine.

The system was built 6 years ago but things just haven't moved fast in hardware. It doesn't have a TPM 2.0 module though so no Windows 11. One nice thing about that fact is that i never get the upgrade nags since it fails compatibility checks.

Part of me is hoping we get some third party OS patches if anything major crops up. This has happened for previous versions of Windows.

I plan to continue running this as-is past October 14. If something serious enough does crop up with no third party mitigations or fixes I'll move to Linux. I could technically install a TPM 2.0 module on the motherboard but i don't want to. Not enough benefit to me as someone that's never installed malware (I'm extremely cautious about what i allow to run on it to the extent of not running various binary distributed game mods).
by ketzu | 2025-10-02 15:13:36+00:00
> people still use and even prefer their non-cloud products at home and enterprise.

You can still buy office as single-purchase standalone versions. I think the most recent version is 2024.

I worked on a project migrating away from office 2003... in 2022. In my opinion, people use outdated versions of Office because they want to, as it fulfils their needs, not because they can't buy standalone versions.
by deaux | 2025-10-02 15:13:36+00:00
> But companies should have the right to decide how they conduct their business.

What Meta does is the equivalent of dumping nuclear waste in the middle of your city. I'm sure you don't think companies have the right to do the latter.

I'm very sceptical of the origin of comments like these. I don't know any actual Europeans who share these concerns because they know that the status quo is that the entire EU market is captured by US tech. And that this has been done through anticompetitive tactics as well as offloading trillions in negative externalities onto societies.

If you're truly a concerned European, you're incredibly naive, and need to read much more about how banally evil Meta is.

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. Zuckerberg: I don't know why. Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks
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by SecretDreams | 2025-10-02 15:13:43+00:00
> It's ridiculous, GenZ has just realized they don't want to participate in the racket and I don't blame them.

It's not that they don't want to participate in the racket, it's that the racket literally can not sustain them. Older gens participate in the racket because most of them locked in housing or rents from an era where the racket could support those prices. Gen Z has much higher housing costs that make "the racket" untenable, despite the racket still working fine for older millenials just fine. Housing costs exploding, among other things, has ruined the ability of an entire generation to really thrive or ever have a chance of doing better than their parents.
by turnsout | 2025-10-02 15:13:48+00:00
I was a consultant for many years. You can definitely buy yourself time (see below), but always make sure you understand why the question is being asked, and how your answer will be used. Sometimes people just ask questions in meetings to sound important.

• If it's theoretically possible to answer:

"You know, that is such a great question, and I want to be able to give you a thoughtful answer. Let me take it offline and get back to you tomorrow with [a concrete plan|my recommendations|a few options|a potential solution]."

• If it's impossible to answer in the moment (you need to access data or run a report):

"That would be interesting to see! I could probably crunch that for you in ___ days/hours. Right now I'm currently working on ____. Should I put that work on pause while I get the answer for you?" or "I'd have to spend a little time to dig into that. Should we add it to the backlog?"

• If they're expecting an assessment/judgment/snap decision:

"Fair question, but it's a bit more nuanced than you might think, so I'd like to look at it more closely. If I answer now, you're just getting my own bias."

• If it's something unexpected/random (happens often):

"Oh, I hadn't considered that. Can you give me a little insight about the reason for the question? I'd love to know what's behind your interest in ____." or "Ah, interesting. Are you just asking out of curiosity, or is there a deeper reason for the question?" or "Wow, I would be curious to know the answer to that too. Why do you ask?"

• If it's a technical question, especially a "gotcha" question:

"You know, I am honestly flattered that you think I would know that off the top of my head, but I'm actually a big believer in documentation and researching best practices. I can check for you."

• If you don't understand what they'll do with the answer:

"We can certainly get an answer on that, but just so I know how best to respond, can you help me understand how this will be used as an input? Put another way, what's the action or behavior this will change?"

• If it sounds like they're fishing for a specific answer:

"It's a good question, but I get the sense that you already have an idea in mind. What are your thoughts?"

• If it's an aggressive or hostile question:

"I get it, it's frustrating. Before I answer, do you want to press pause and talk about what's really going on?" or "Happy to answer, but if this is about me or my performance, why don't we take it offline so you can give me some feedback 1:1."

Honestly the list is endless
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-10-02 15:13:58+00:00
The root cause is CAFE regulations and the penalty for small-footprint vehicles. You get more profit if you don't have to make higher efficiency cars rather than cheaper trucks. You get more profit if you make larger trucks rather than smaller. The optimal solution is to make cars undesirable with poor quality or stop building them altogether by pretending they're trucks (PT Cruiser, all XUVs) and make smaller trucks unavailable.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 15:14:00+00:00
> modern culture of company hopping is contributing to this

Zero people are doing this for the fun of it. This is entirely driven by incentives, not "culture".

Or, rather, not by "culture" of the people doing the hopping—C-suite and MBA culture, yes, very much so, this is one of many bad outcomes from having companies run entirely by "professional managers" and finance dudes rather than people who were, at the start of their career, close to the actual productive work of the company, with the latter scenario once being far more common than it is now.
by alkonaut | 2025-10-02 15:14:11+00:00
> Why are you on YC if you think free market tech is dead?

I have been visiting this forum for 12 years. It took probably 5 years before I _heard_ about the "other" part of ycombinator - the startup thing. But I never really cared about that bit, it's just an online tech forum that happens to share domain with the startup incubator.

> lol, what? We have different laws depending on how popular you are?

Absolutely. I think that is pretty universal already. For example laws preventing monopolies (government approvals of mergers, for example).
by ziml77 | 2025-10-02 15:14:12+00:00
Let's say it was true. What does it even mean for users? macOS was on version 10 for something like 20 years. There were big changes in that time and compatibility for older hardware was dropped along the way.

Version numbers like this are arbitrary. They could have released Windows 11 as Windows 10 21H2 and it would have changed nothing about the scenario where some people can't update and their version would stop receiving security updates.
Spike in Endpoint Enumeration Attacks
by written-beyond | 2025-10-02 15:14:17+00:00
The past year I've noticed an uptick in enumeration attacks on just about any service I deploy.

Whether it's on any cloud provider or on a self managed server the moment the service goes up the first 200 or so requests are from an enumeration attempt. The most recent one originated from Sweden, with around 1000 or so requests.

I would get these attacks before but the latency from deployment to first request from the attack is very short. Has anyone else noticed this uptick in attacks or requests or am I just experiencing detection bias?

This occurs on any domain, any new subdomain that gets setup. Are attackers listening to DNS propagation requests?
by daveoc64 | 2025-10-02 15:14:17+00:00
If someone has a newer PC, they should be able to upgrade to Windows 11 for free.

If they have an older PC, then they must have already enjoyed quite some period of the 10-year Windows 10 support lifecycle.

Unless Microsoft were to go to an Apple-esque annual release cycle, regularly dropping support for older hardware, I'm not sure how they could ever manage this.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-02 15:14:23+00:00
Why is there an arrow between $a and [2], but not between [2] and {“bar”}, in this?

$a->[2]{"bar"}

The highest rated SO answer here explains a little, and it’s the kind of situational nitpickiness that let to me dropping Perl like a hot potato when something better matching my mental model came across my radar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1817394/whats-the-differ...
by freedomben | 2025-10-02 15:14:26+00:00
> "modern culture of company hopping".. don't you mean simply going to another workplace for better wages?

Yes that's what I mean, though I was making the argument from the perspective of the employer. Didn't mean mean any shade with "company hopping" (I've done that in the past because it was the best thing for me and my career, and I stand by those decisions, so I don't mean them with any negative connotations from the employee perspective at least, and from the employer perspective it's their own damn fault though they rarely ever recognize it).

> when you say "ridiculously stupid HR practices" don't you mean not paying them as much?

Yes, not paying them as much as another company would offer, plus being stingy with promotion opportunities (like from jr to mid, mid to sr, etc).

> do you really think it's a "cultural" thing to change jobs?

Yes absolutely, a culture born out of changing realities/incentives. That's not to say it wouldn't switch back if companies started rewarding loyalty again, but it won't spin on a dime.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-02 15:14:39+00:00
Why would I learn my father’s trade when I can see all day in TikTok all of these people doing GRWM with fancy fits and making matcha lattes at their super fancy corporate offices, or others becoming rich by having enough likes and followers, or others having lambos from day trading?

Now that I see other peoples idealized lives 24/7, I want THAT.

In the meantime I will work a 3 times/week 4 hour shift at Starbies.

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Show HN: Receipts for AI runs – κ (stress) + Δhol (drift), stdlib-only
by terrynce | 2025-10-02 15:14:40+00:00
Most AI failures aren’t mysterious; they’re unobserved. This ships a tiny, open receipt per run—κ for stress, Δhol for drift—so you can diff, audit, and keep the path, not just the answer. It’s just JSON; drop it in CI. Looking for feedback on setup friction and where the signals break.

Links to run it COLE (Coherence Layer Engine): github.com/terryncew/COLE-Coherence-Layer-Engine- OpenLine Core: github.com/terryncew/openline-core

Small receipts. Big accountability.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-02 15:15:21+00:00
> In the long term, yes definitely

So, in the automotive industry they've been paying too little to attract people. Meaning they now have a shortage. That's still on them.

Sounds to me like they made some really nice profits for a couple of years and are now feeling the pain of that.

Funny that you mention AI where people are saying there's no need for Juniors anymore. Exactly the same, you'll make some money now and will then likely have to pay for that later.
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by artf | 2025-10-02 15:16:12+00:00
Yeah totally, we see the same thing. Most people don't phrase things the way an engineer would but funny enough, LLMs are often better than us at interpreting non technical instructions. What makes a big difference is giving the model context about what the user is actually looking at (current page, selected section, etc.), so it doesn’t have to guess. That way has a decent chance of doing the right thing.
by chrisfinazzo | 2025-10-02 15:16:20+00:00
Why are people surprised by this? (No, really)

IMAP "defeated" POP long ago if you wanted to use a third-party client but still access mail from anywhere.

By definition, this doesn't work in a POP environment, but that's increasingly an outdated mindset.

For historical reasons (intertia, and being early enough that I was able to acquire a "firstname.lastname" address), I don't plan to leave Gmail unless things really go south. My personal domain (Fastmail) is used for other things and I've never anything other than Mail.app and their own web interface.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-02 15:17:30+00:00
This article is wild. I love it when rich people tell you 1) they've been asleep for a decade and 2) their politics are insane.

he was especially struck by stories from young factory employees. Many of them said they could not support themselves by working at Ford alone. “When I met with my entry factory workers, they were saying [they] had to have three jobs.”

So, the thing people have been saying in public for 10 years, is a surprise to you?

Farley described a revelation about the erosion of what blue-collar work used to represent—stability, pride, and a single income that could support a family.

Oh no. Our conservative values! We're going to lose our base!

Dimon called America the “bastion of freedom, arsenal of democracy,” and argued that the country had “gotten bogged down and made a lot of mistakes in how to grow our economy for the benefit of all Americans.” He urged Farley to keep fighting against what he called America becoming a “nation of compliance and box-checking.”

There's so much here. "arsenal of democracy" is a wild phrase considering how many nations we've destroyed in the name of (but not by actually supporting) democracy (to say nothing of our current administration being anti-democracy). "gotten bogged down" - by what, corporate profits and CEO bonuses? All the money was flying in your face so you couldn't see the 50-year downward trend in wages and upward trend in cost of living, healthcare, education? And then "keep fighting against what he called America becoming a “nation of compliance and box-checking." - so, after corporations have destroyed the country's middle and lower classes (and environment), deregulation will save us?!?

He warned that millions of well-paid jobs are going unfilled because they require specialized skills. Putting the salaries for these jobs at $100,000 and above, Farley argued that they require training.

This part is amazing too. He's actually admitting that there is a wage gap. I mean, why would anyone do 5 years of training to become a diesel mechanic at $65k/yr, when they can do a 2 week bootcamp and become a JavaScript programmer for $120k?

He said there’s a general attitude of frustration, a sense of “How the hell do we fix this?”

A whole lotta people have been shouting the answers for decades. You haven't been listening because you were all too busy stuffing profits down your bank account.
by greggsy | 2025-10-02 15:17:46+00:00
I prefer Mac too, but don’t forget that Apple typically only supports devices for seven years befote being declared ‘vintage’, after which time they will be ineligible for updates.

Windows 10 on the other hand was released over ten years ago now.

Not the best comparison, but it’s increasing more difficult to separate their OS support lifecycles from their M* hardware.