MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-10-08 09:12:46+00:00
Further info re: Australian Aluminium production

The four aluminium smelters in Australia consume 10% of the nation’s electricity and produce close to 5% of total emissions. Smelting is so energy intensive that in many countries, it has driven the construction of new fossil fuel power plants. That’s why it’s nicknamed “congealed electricity”. This week, the federal government proposed a new policy aimed at making aluminium smelting green.

* https://www.climateworkscentre.org/news/will-tax-incentives-...

* https://aluminium.org.au/australian-industry/australian-alum...
by lexicality | 2025-10-08 09:12:57+00:00
Good luck when it doesn't work though. I decided to take the hit and pay their exorbitant HDD prices on the basis that they came with a warranty etc and one of the drives failed within 3 months.

It was genuinely like pulling teeth. They demanded I ship the drive at my own expense from the UK to Germany and they didn't send a replacement for 3 weeks after it arrived at their warehouse. I had to buy another drive to repair my RAID cluster while waiting. Absolutely outrageous customer support.
by flir | 2025-10-08 09:13:00+00:00
I think it's just another floor in the creaky old tower of abstraction.

Machine code > ASM > 3GLs > 4GLs > visual programming > LLMs

etc etc etc. Thing is, the moment you go off-piste, the LLMs get a lot less useful. I think, if you want to stay closer to the metal, you've got to aim for a niche that has a small internet footprint. So... domain knowledge or esoteric programming knowledge.

One way to incorporate domain knowledge might be to become a hybrid product owner/programmer.

(This is all just opinion - I'm sure a well-argued rebuttal is possible).
Show HN: BuzzScope – Track keyword buzz across tech communities
by Judy-witch | 2025-10-08 09:14:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I often find myself wondering: when a tech term starts buzzing, which community talks about it first? Instead of checking multiple sites manually, I built BuzzScope.

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by zeroflow | 2025-10-08 09:14:47+00:00
I totally agree with you.

The appeal for me was the "it just works" factor. It's a compact unit and setup was easy. Every self-built solution would either be rather large (factor for me) and more difficult to set up. And I think, that's what has kept Synology alive for so long. It allows entry level users to get into the selfhosting game with the bare minimum you need, especially if transcoding (Plex/Jellyfin) is mentioned.

As an anecdote, I've had exactly this problem when buying my last NAS some time ago. It was DS920+, DS923+ vs. QNAP TS-464. The arguments for QNAP were exactly what you write. Newer chip, 2.5G NICs, PCIe Slot, no NVMe vendor lock-in. So I bought the QNAP unit. And returned it 5 days later, because the UI was that much hot garbage and I did not want to continue using it.

Lately, the UGreen NAS series looks very promising. I'm hearing only good things about their own system AND (except for the smallest 2-bay solution) you can install TrueNAS. It mostly sounds too good to be true. Compact, (rather) powerful and flexible with support for the own OS.

As the next player, with mixed feelings about support, the Minisforum N5 Units also look promising / near perfect. 3x M.2 for Boot+OS, 5 HDD slots and a PCIe low-profile expansion slot.
by sho_hn | 2025-10-08 09:15:02+00:00
It's really not particularly anti-China imho, as indeed the West has its own brand of this in American Exceptionalism in general. We from smaller countries sometimes call this Big Country Syndrome.

It's true that China has a lot of affection for the Out of Asia theory of human origin, and to this day there are museums dedicated to the Peking Man that are at the very least heavily suggestive of this, or at least of China's population having a distinct origin.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man

Books and reams of sociology papers can and have been written about the relationship between CCP policy and the Peking Man and the CCPs difficulty with adjusting to today's generally preferred Out of Africa theory, and the effect on Chinese scientists working in anthropology. HN favorite Jimmy Maher (Digital/Analog Antiquarian) has a lovely line of free amateur history books including an excellent one on China that has a chapter on this:

https://analog-antiquarian.net/2022/01/14/chapter-2-origin-s...

I think it's a useful approach to contemporary Chinese identity. Nothing anti about that, any good-natured attempt to grok China would include this, just as no diatribe on America is complete without mentioning the 30-something % of Americans who state belief in some form of Creationism when polled.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 09:16:13+00:00
1 second google search -> https://www.die-linke.de/partei/programm/ -> Marx's manifesto is cited among the first paragraphs -> the literal first sentence in point 3's second paragraph -> "Our goal of democratic socialism in the 21st century is a society free of domination in which all people can live in dignity." They mention the process of transforming capitalism to state mandated socialism and control of all companies by a democratic process. A democratic socialism is not a social capitalism, they don't support capitalism in any way or form, and they want to actively move away from it, which they also say among the first sentences on this very page.

It took me all of 5 seconds to achieve this enlightenment. You should try it sometimes.
by barrenko | 2025-10-08 09:16:24+00:00
Ok, boy, I'm also reviewing LinAlg textbooks as we speak. Coming in with a similar interest for ML / AI.

I've done math on KA academy up to linear algebra, with other resources / textbooks / et al. depending on the topic.

People will recommend 3B1B, Strang (MIT OCW Lin Alg lessons). For me the 3B1B is too "intuitionist" for a first serious pass, and Strang can be wonderful but then go off on a tangent during a lecture that I can't follow, it's a staple resource that I use alongside others.

LADR4e is also nice but I can't follow the proofs there sadly (yet). There is also 'Linear Algebra done wrong', as well as the Hefferon book, which all end up being proof-y quite quickly. They seem like they'll be good for a second / third pass at a linear algebra.

Side note - for a second or a third pass in LA it seems there is such a thing as 'abstract linear algebra' as a subject and the texbooks there don't seem that much harder to follow than the "basic" linear algebra ones designated for a second pass.

I've gotten off to the most of a start with ROB101 textbook (https://github.com/michiganrobotics/rob101/blob/main/Fall%20...), up until linear dependence / independence, along the MIT Strang lectures. ROB101 is nice as it deals with the coding aspect of it all, and I can follow in my head as I am used to the coding aspect of ML / AI.

I also have a couple obscure eastern european math texbook(s) for practice assignments.

Most lately I have been reviewing this course / book - https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/ (which has cool notes at https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/old), and getting a lot of mileage from https://math.berkeley.edu/~arash/54/notes/.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-08 09:16:29+00:00
> I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. The best I can make out of it is: lots of criminals use cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency has been used to get around capital controls so any use of cryptocurrency is suspect. This seems deeply unserious to me and doesn't even begin to engage with stablecoins.

The point I'm trying to make is that there's loads of dirty money in crypto (I think that's fair given all the ransomware). Banks/financial institutions who support crypto off-ramp are gonna be hard pressed to determine how much of the crypto assets they see are legitimate vs criminal.

So, the likely outcome of lots of crypto/stablecoin providers with fiat off-ramps is that it provides a way for this dirty money to get laundered into clean fiat/assets. This is gonna be a real headache for these providers, and I really can't see how they ever do due diligence/AML/KYC on all of this money.

That being said, dirty money has always and will always exist (barring some totalitarian global state) so this isn't a new problem, just one that I think will be concerning for financial institutions and regulators.
by koito17 | 2025-10-08 09:17:22+00:00
Since this library leverages Symbol.toPrimitive, you may also use operators besides bitwise-OR. Additionally, the library does not seem to dispatch on the `hint` parameter[0]. Now I want to open a JS REPL, try placing this library's pipe object into string template literals, and see what happens.

Overall, cool library.

[0] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/abstract-operations.html#s...
by amonith | 2025-10-08 09:17:34+00:00
Not the parent commenter, but why would you assume that he meant LLMs specifically? I'm one of the "tech people not interested in AI" and I mean everything around AI/ML. I just like writing OG code man. I like architecture, algorithms, writing "feeling good" code. Like carpenters who just like to work with wood I like to work with code.
by vulk | 2025-10-08 09:17:38+00:00
You shouldn't be discouraged. Now is the best time to create software. You have advantage that very few people have.

Its industry own fault that it is in the position that it is right now, and it will shift and change embrace it. I only wish I had your experience building software in professional environment.

You can literally build anything right now if you have the experience, I personally can't understand if the models are hallucinating hence the lack of experience writing and understanding code. However I always wanted to pivot into the industry but couldn't, hiring practices are brutal, internships are non-existent, junior roles are I think what senior used to be and the whole hr process is I don't know how to put it.

By using LLMs I can now build UIs, build functionality, iterate over design choices, learn about database design, etc. hopefully I will escape the tutorial hell and have my own working full stack web app soon.

Pivot to creating and then sale your product.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-08 09:17:43+00:00
> The great technological leaps forward ... All that happened under democracy.

I think you're conflating "governments were democratic at a time these things happened" with "the government did these things directly itself via its institutions".

Of those achievements, only the space race was actually executed by the government, and it's not a great counter-example because it was done purely to compete with the achievements of an autocratic government (the USSR).

The rest was private sector efforts. It wasn't a government institution that built toilets.

> it begs the question of why the Industrial Revolution and many of the great leaps forward didn't happen under them?

They did. USSR famously went through forced industrialization.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-08 09:18:27+00:00
In an ideal world, you would be right. In this world, I just read a study (that passed peer review), where they took per-capita data from a district with 100 people, data from a district with 50.000 people, averaged them without weighing by number of people, then presented the result as the per-capita average for all districts.

That is when they're not outright fabricating data, and having their colleagues cover for them (at Harvard):

In or before 2020, graduate student Zoé Ziani developed concerns about the validity of results from a highly publicized paper by Gino about personal networking. According to Ziani, she was strongly warned by her academic advisers not to criticize Gino, and two members of her dissertation committee refused to approve her thesis unless she deleted criticism of Gino's paper from it. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino
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by DamonHD | 2025-10-08 09:20:23+00:00
Not being able (or willing) to turn turn nukes down or off to load-follow makes them sometimes as difficult to work with as intermittents. None in the GB grid load-follow, though one can AFAIK. And nukes need refuelling, so you need to fill in those generation gaps. And one of the last two big grid stumbles in the GB (UK) in the last ~20Y was caused by a big nuke (Sizewell B) tripping, so nukes can be big single points of failure too.

Note: I am pro nukes in the mix, but nukes have difficult points too.
by julcol | 2025-10-08 09:21:40+00:00
After 17 years I dropped Synology recently. I sold my 2 NAS. Company changed focus. Did not like the walled garden and old linux base.

I moved to a second hand beefed-up laptop and a terramaster disk pack connected vi USB. Same wattage.

It does take some effort, but now it is done. I like to tinker anyway. I pulled up Proxmox with a bunch of containers doing SMB/SNF per share.

Just like with Synology, I just look a regular emails with successful backups. edit: typos
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 09:21:56+00:00
> What percentage of German companies are owned and managed by its workers?

This sentence does not apply because "social market economy" does not imply that companies should be owned by their workes.

> What percentage are owned by capitalists, generating private profits?

This sentence does not apply because a "social market economy" does not forbid the generation of profits. Profits are to be shared with the populace to pay for social policies, which is happening.

> Are those numbers indicative of socialism or capitalism?

You should really - really - read up on "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" and ordoliberalism before you make a point. If you don't know how they are defined and what they mean, you cannot make a coherent argument.

> You're essentially arguing that real capitalism hasn't been attempted yet - that more "freedom" (from regulation), more inequality will somehow fix things.

I have not and you are free to cite where I did.

> Germany is a capitalist country with strong social welfare.

Congratulations, you combine this with "Regulation" and a state mandated "Economic Conscience", you have finally found out what "social market economy" means. It's not "capitalism with X". It's so far removed from the idea of capitalism that we use another term entirely.

> but one thing that's not up for serious discussion is its economic model.

I encourage you to look up the terms. Again.
by u_sama | 2025-10-08 09:22:39+00:00
My recommendation is to start researching V2Ray and XRay protocols and translate Chinese made tutorials. This seems to be the only protocol (under the xtls-vision-rpx) that works in GFW countries like Iran, Russia and China. Buy for a month a cheapish VPS and rent it for a month in a close country like Armenia/Caucasus Region, set up an XRAY server and then download Streisand for iOS or the equivalent in Android.

Also the Chinese GFW is not this titanic wall, there are well known exploits that use the 443 TLS port to masquerade as popular wesbites signatures.

If you need some guidance lmk I can write a full tutorial on how XRay/V2Ray works and how to set it up, as well as a series of scripts to generate stuff :)
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-08 09:22:42+00:00
> Precisely why brand drugs continue to make money over fist for pharmaceutical companies even after patents expire.

Generics may have the same active ingredient but (vastly) different pharmacokinetics - i.e. different absorption rates/retention in the body. For basic stuff such as painkillers that's one thing, but for more sensitive medication such as insulin, antidepressants or anything related to the cardiovascular system (heart rate, blood pressure and clotting) one has to be very careful when switching between brands.
by petepete | 2025-10-08 09:23:00+00:00
> they are genuinely worse in terms of construction

A 406 costs ×20 more (£1600 vs £80).

Does the 406 have cleaner lines? Yes.

Is it comfier? The 406 doesn't have a cushioned seat so, maybe or maybe not.

Will it last longer? Probably. But the IKEA one comes with a 10 year warranty and unless you treat it badly it'll probably last far longer than that.

Hard to argue that the IKEA POÄNG isn't great value for the people who have other priorities.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-08 09:23:18+00:00
> how in your face it is due to the hype cycle,

I'm really struggling with this one. I think AI (generative and not) is surely fascinating. I should by rights be all up in it. I could definitely get it, I don't think I'm stupid in terms of technology. Regardless of the damage the laser-focus on one thing might (or might not) be doing to rest of industry (and the effect on society, which to be honest, I am conflicted on if we can blame the technology). And yet so much of it is all so...tedious and fake somehow, and just even keeping up with headlines is exhausting let along engaging with every LinkedIn "next huge thing that if you don't do you should find a bridge to live under soon".

It's like that guy who tells you constantly how rich and cool he is. Bro, if you're that cool, let your cool speak for itself. But I'm not sure I want to lend you a grand for your new car.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-08 09:23:31+00:00
I don't know about Synology, don't know anyone there, but in my case I do this kind of thing out of principle.

Often I'll just voice my opinion and try to convince management even if it doesn't directly affect me (I don't work support). I think that, generally, we all benefit when things are done well and relations are not adversarial.

In the specific case of NAS support, I doubt that would make a lot of difference. I bet 90% of people will call about their NAS not working without first checking that it's actually plugged in. Why do you think this question is on top of the list? Had a very similar complaint last Friday: I work in infrastructure, and some people were installing something that needed networking. Dude comes up: "I don't get any network". Huh. I ask if it's actually plugged in. Nope.
by close04 | 2025-10-08 09:23:36+00:00
On a DS920+ users will run various containers, Plex/Jellyfin, PiHole, etc. The Celeron J4125 CPU (still used in 2025 on the 2 bay DS225+) is slow when used with the stuff most users would like to use on a NAS today, and the software runs from the HDDs only. Every other equivalent modern NAS is on N100 and can use the M.2 drives for storage just like the HDDs, which makes them significantly more capable.
by hollowturtle | 2025-10-08 09:24:11+00:00
I don't get the obsession some tech people have to push the idea that this stuff accelerate your coding, increase your productivity. It's all about fast and faster output. In my experience LLMs have mostly produced gibberish oververbose code, surely faster than me, but my lower speed usually produce better code. I don't like this present state of things where we need to chat faster to quickly get out results and go fast in production... that is the kind of mentality that pushed subpar products on the web for so many years. Instead of dropping names lile vibe coding/engineering whatever comes next, let's have a serious discussion why we need faster low quality and we can't just improve automation and processes. Eg I can get unit test generated very fast sure, but my question is: why do we need all these unit tests in the first place? Dont get me wrong they're useful, but I feel like we're advancing higher abstraction instead of advancing lower level tools
by andai | 2025-10-08 09:24:46+00:00
I've been thinking about that actually. it wasn't so long ago that the entire education system was based around repetition and memorization. Overlearning, in positive terms.

Especially when it came to the classics and the fundamental knowledge.

Yet these days, not even our machines, on whom we rely to teach us things, are exposed to more than a single training epoch!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-08 09:25:46+00:00
Not necessarily. You could have a transaction take place where the buyer and the seller both value what's being exchanged in exactly the same amount and then go through with the transaction anyway because they both find trades entertaining or have a cultural preference for doing business with each other or just both place zero value on transaction costs.

That isn't common but that doesn't mean it could never happen.
by TheSilva | 2025-10-08 09:25:51+00:00
Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone...

I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1].

Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not have access to the whole platform.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/kids-corner-windows-phone-8
by rickdeckard | 2025-10-08 09:28:00+00:00
While I see where you're coming from, in my experience ESPECIALLY Customer-Support is usually happy to have a clear-cut criteria to reject support-requests as "officially out-of-scope".

I wouldn't be surprised if the decision was made BECAUSE Customer Support highlighted the support-effort to debug all these unique customer-setups within warranty, and then someone stepped in and proposed to kill two birds with one stone and only support own HDD's...
by shakna | 2025-10-08 09:28:02+00:00
By everyone thinking you can get 100% coverage across the Great Basin Desert? Yes. Yes I do think that the population density of Europe leads them to think everything is closer and easier than it is.

That one desert, of many, is about 190,000 miles in size. That's half the size of the whole of France.

Are you really saying covering that, with 100% coverage, with no dead spots at all, is a reasonable task to undertake?
by dns_snek | 2025-10-08 09:28:25+00:00
By your own definitions the USA isn't a capitalist economy due to regulations and their social welfare policies. If that's where you stand then any further discussion is going to be pointless.

>> You're essentially arguing that real capitalism hasn't been attempted yet

> I have not and you are free to cite where I did.

It's a straightforward logical inference. Your definition of capitalism excludes every capitalist economy that has ever existed.
by queltos | 2025-10-08 09:29:49+00:00
Surprisingly it is. Thought it was dead in the water especially against VRChat. But it is continuously worked on and if I did get that right it will get a new engine as well. Accidently hopped into some worlds recently as they are (annoyingly) promoting it heavily in the quest library. And there are plenty of worlds with many players, 99% of which being small kids it feels.