MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dathinab | 2025-10-25 21:26:44+00:00
it is

the reason it sells it that some non small part of the investor marked expects there is a "explosion" in compute needs, cause by AI adoption

which will lead to an explosion of electrical need

except there is limited world wide production capacity for gas power plants and other power plants, and some (e.g. nuclear) are very slow to build

and Trump put a lot of extra artificial hurdles for expanding anything "renewable"

so basically if that happen we most likely will have

- exploding electrical bills, and if no intervention is done for private homes, too.

- air pollution (and other environmental pollution) which doesn't just give people asthma implicitly will kill them (like them ding years earlier, but also potentially through damage from asthma attacks etc.)[1]

- price explosion of any electric components which share production lines with GPU servers (which isn't just GPUs, but also RAM, CPUs, etc.), the predicted price increase of RAM by ~30% is partially due to people anticipating this and already buying capacities :/

Naturally there needs to be a sinner to put the blame one so expect claims that electric price increases are fully at fault of Wind Farms and similar :/

Oh also if the AI bubble goes pop it sadly will not just be all fine, because we now have a double bubble of the core AI bubble and the "speculative new data center investment" bubble. The first will majorly hit the top of SAP100 and with it a lot of founds and similar which try to be "stable"/"reliable" etc. The other is more fulled by private equity and it's (for me) very unclear what is linked to it. One way or another things look pretty bad.

[1]: If anyone is wondering if there will be interventions from the state weather it's the OP politico article or long term promulgated and reported issues with fracking causing mutated fishes and major increases in cancer down stream, or the long history with toxic wast dumping in the US the answer is, most likely, no. And that sadly isn't even Trump specific.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-25 21:27:27+00:00
So its the worst of all possible worlds then. It has the poorest performance due to forced locking even when not necessary and if you load a library in another language (C), then you can still get corruptions. If you really care about performance, probably best to avoid Python entirely, even when its compiled like it is in CPython.

PS For extra fun, learn what the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable does and how it can be used to abuse CPython (or other things that dynamically load shared objects).
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-25 21:27:27+00:00
per Kagi Quick Answer

Yes, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) reports Uniform Crime Statistics to the FBI. 3 2 These reports are the standard crimes reported to the FBI and are useful for tracking historical data and comparing crime stats between cities 3 1 1.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/public-disclosure-requests/public-information-online 2.https://www.seattle.gov/documents/departments/cityauditor/auditreports/gun%20violence%20audit/gmuinvestigationsreportfinal.pdf 3.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/data/public-data-sets
by iago-cavalcante | 2025-10-25 21:28:10+00:00
The core idea is simple – instead of pagination, content is chunked and presented vertically. Swipe down for the next "page" of text. Add lo-fi ambient music and you get something surprisingly engaging.

Technical stack is React Native + Expo for true cross-platform (iOS/Android/Web from one codebase). EPUBs are parsed and chunked intelligently (trying to respect paragraph boundaries, not cut mid-sentence). PDF rendering was trickier than expected – ended up using page-by-page extraction.

Some things that worked well: - The swipe mechanic does create a nice rhythm once you adjust - Ambient sound + dark theme makes for focused reading sessions - Offline-first architecture means no latency, everything feels instant

Honest limitations: - Chunking algorithm isn't perfect – complex layouts break - PDF rendering quality varies by source file - The UX isn't for everyone (probably not great for technical books with diagrams) - No social features yet (just the reading experience)

Would love feedback from HN readers who actually like reading. Is this solving a real problem or just novelty? Did I miss obvious UX issues? Technical critiques welcome.

Demo: https://leaftok.github.io/site Built for learning – happy to discuss implementation details.
by 29athrowaway | 2025-10-25 21:28:45+00:00
Why would you let yourself be drained of your energy by someone who is determined to undermine your role and create a precedent that you can be disrespected without consequences? Not only having to tolerate the person but giving them your time and attention? Using your energy that would otherwise be meant to do your job efficiently, advance your career and meet expectations outside of work with your family and friends, etc.

If someone wants to play a different game, let them play alone. It must be clear that the game is collaborating towards a common goal, and if you want to play a different one then you will be playing alone.

We are a band, we are all playing an instrument for the same song requested by a customer, and if you want to play another song I won't start playing the notes of your song that nobody requested.

You can be kind to others, but you also have to be kind to yourself, your employer, and have respect for your profession and the sacrifice others have made to help you attain the position you have.
by danans | 2025-10-25 21:29:25+00:00
To me, what's more interesting than the ranking is that the majority of the unisex names seem to be Celtic or Anglo-Saxon in origin.

Comparatively, there are very few Latin, Greek, or Hebrew names. Perhaps this is because names from the latter languages are still very closely associated with their gendered religious and mythological characters, while those associations have become more hazy with the former.
by miketromba | 2025-10-25 21:29:25+00:00
Global border radius is editable, that setting is at the bottom of the sidebar. The challenge with global shadcn theming is that you're limited to adjusting the css variables they provide. I believe there is a global spacing variable, but it is not so specific that you can target e.g. just label spacing. That would be something you could modify directly within your shadcn input components via adjusting the tailwind class(es).
by noir_lord | 2025-10-25 21:29:35+00:00
Fully fresh everyday, it’s in the history if I want whatever it was.

I’m still fairly ruthless about not having a tonne of tabs open (also gonna be an age thing, I predate tabbed web browsers and for a while after their introduction you’d either grind them to a halt or crash them entirely with too many tabs open and too many wasn’t many).
by simonw | 2025-10-25 21:30:21+00:00
I'm surprised this story didn't mention the scandal with Scots Wikipedia: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

> an American teenager – who does not speak Scots, the language of Robert Burns – has been revealed as responsible for almost half of the entries on the Scots language version of Wikipedia

It wasn't malicious either, it was someone who started editing Wikipedia at 12 and naively failed to recognise the damage they were doing.
by stonogo | 2025-10-25 21:30:33+00:00
I find the claim that bwk 'failed' suspect, since I have a copy of "Software Tools in Pascal" on my shelf right now.

Almost the entirety of his criticisms were accurate in 1981 and addressed even five years later, and many of them say more about his assumptions than they do about Pascal. For instance, the implicit assumption that arrays must be the natural way to deal with strings rings hollow; some years later, "I wish it were as easy to deal with strings in C as it is in Pascal" would be a common refrain.

I think bwk is one of the best people in the industry, both technically and personally, but I feel this essay is an artifact of its time more than a lasting commentary on Pascal as a whole.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-25 21:30:41+00:00
article's source @ https://downtownseattle.org/programs-services/research/econo...

Violent crime incidents in Seattle police’s M sectors (the downtown core) declined 36% between June–August 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. This was the lowest number of incidents for the summer period since 2017.
by WorldDev | 2025-10-25 21:31:23+00:00
Thanks for your thoughts. That all sound fair.

I am fine with having quite a bit of configuration on the target device (I am fine with configuration on both sides).

> it ought be possible to make a rpi0 device that outputs a usb-gadget keyboard

I like very much the idea of being able to make the host side (macBook) appear as a usb-gadget keyboard. That way I would just need to plug a single usb cable between the 2 computers. Could you give me a few pointers to get started, to do this on macOS?
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-25 21:31:50+00:00
> The TLDR is that there’s all sorts of invariants that the Rust compiler internals assume about Rust code (eg pointers don’t alias).

There are fairly straightforward ways to disclaim these invariants to a greater or lesser extent as appropriate, such as accepting &Cell<T> arguments (or even, e.g. Option<&Cell<T>>) in lieu of &mut T. But the Rust standard library is not yet comprehensively built with this in mind, so this might be an area where Zig's library facilities have a real advantage unless an effort is made to address this gap.
by labrador | 2025-10-25 21:31:50+00:00
I remember the bad old days of rolling black outs when Enron was doing energy arbitrage with Calfifornia's electricity. A more recent negative event was the battery fire at Moss Landing on the Monterrey Bay near where I live. If we use Sodium-ion batteries in the future we won't have that risk.

"On January 16, 2025, the Moss Landing 300 battery energy storage system at the Moss Landing Vistra power plant (Monterey County, Calif.) caught fire."

- The 300-megawatt system held about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries. - About 55 percent of the batteries were damaged by the fire.

https://www.epa.gov/ca/moss-landing-vistra-battery-fire
by fluoridation | 2025-10-25 21:32:07+00:00
Like I've said more than enough times already, Susan is not wholly a judge nor wholly a doctor. If every part of her was simultaneously judge and doctor in equal parts and completely, then it would be false to say "Susan does not judge in a medical capacity, she judges in a judicial capacity", because she would not be able to compartmentalize those two aspects of her self. Everything she does would be in both capacities, because she is wholly those things.

You are both a eukaryote and three-dimensional. Everything you do is in the capacity of a three-dimensional eukaryote and there's no way for you to momentarily abandon one of those natures while you do something. Not without fundamentally changing what you are.

Jesus' must be equally and inextricably imbued by these natures if he is to be said "wholly" human and divine. More so, in fact, because at least your atoms are not eukaryotic. So if Jesus changes, God the Son also changes, because Jesus is God the Son. They're two names for the same thing. If they're not the same thing, if Jesus does not completely overlap with God the Son, then Jesus is not wholly divine. There are parts of him that are not divine. That's a tenable position, but it's not the position of the church.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-25 21:32:41+00:00
It’s mostly because tech titles have no meaning without context (not specifically a tech thing either but we seem to do it more than most).

One place I was a senior dev running two teams of 8-9 devs (as both a line manager and a day to day manager plus mentoring), another I was a “Head of Software Engineering”, there where only 9 devs in the business, did get a nice pay bump with the ridiculous title though so that was nice.

The senior managing two teams thing came about because there was one senior per team and when the pandemic hit the manufacturing dev teams senior just upped and quit, I took over temporarily and then the pandemic lasted longer than anyone expected, it was a lead role even with one team and frankly at least a couple on each team should have been seniors on ability and experience but it was a weird org that way.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-25 21:33:18+00:00
These days the entire runtime is open source and easy to get

Decent readable C++, too. With a modern CMake build, the whole bit.

https://github.com/russellallen/self

If only it had been made open source 25, 30 years ago when I was really excited about this stuff. I have no idea why they kept it locked up inside Sun for so long.
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-25 21:33:30+00:00
Now I just think about where those takes started and all roads always lead back to the same culprits. Your parents and the hillbillies don’t come up with these takes on their own, they always starts somewhere and benefit the person whispering it in their ear.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-piv...

> The EU also hit a landmark in 2025, with more than 50% of its electricity coming from renewables by late summer.

> This has not gone unnoticed by the fossil fuel industry, which is collectively shitting itself. After a couple of centuries of prospecting we know pretty much where all the oil, coal, and gas reserves are buried in the ground. (Another hint about Ukraine: Ukraine is sitting on top of over 670 billion cubic metres of natural gas: to the dictator of a neighbouring resource-extraction economy this must have been quite a draw.) The constant propaganda and astroturfed campaigns advocating against belief in climate change must be viewed in this light: by 2040 at the latest, those coal, gas, and oil land rights must be regarded as stranded assets that can't be monetized, and the land rights probably have a book value measured in trillions of dollars.
by piva00 | 2025-10-25 21:33:33+00:00
Similar to what happened to the Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, presiding over the case for the coup attempt by Bolsonaro. Trump used the Magnitsky Act against him [0] simply to support Bolsonaro.

The USA as we knew is long dead.

[0] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0211
by 1123581321 | 2025-10-25 21:34:07+00:00
I built a simple WebDAV server with Sabre to sync Devonthink databases. WebDAV was the only option that synced between users of multiple iCloud accounts, worked anywhere in the world and didn’t require a Dropbox subscription. It’s a faster sync than CloudKit. I don’t have other WebDAV use cases but I expect this one to run without much maintenance or cost for years. Useful protocol.
by amalcon | 2025-10-25 21:34:17+00:00
That was very bad, but it was plausibly authorized by Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...).

There is no comparable authorization here. There is, to my knowledge, no allegation that these Venezuelans had anything to do with Al Qaida or the Sept. 11 attacks.
by GreenVulpine | 2025-10-25 21:34:55+00:00
I find it's the opposite nowadays. I run Kubuntu LTS on an all AMD system and most Steam games just work out of the box. No tinkering with the OS, takes 15 minutes to install and set up.

Compared to the hours and hours of battling Windows to get it to a usable state. Drivers, removing bloat, hunting for exes on the internet, dealing with low quality commercial software, etc. Then you get to do it all over again when a major update drops.

Performance is better on Linux too, I noticed a good 10-20% FPS uplift in some games. Found a random CPU review showing everything is slower under Windows. https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows-linux-amd-9950x-9950...
by indolering | 2025-10-25 21:37:02+00:00
Note that the tweaks to Blake2 and Blake3 weakened the cryptanalysis done for the SHA3 hashing contest such that it is not directly applicable. That doesn't mean they are not well respected and probably fine, it's just that we have less confidence in them than K12 and other sibling Keccak hashes.

I would love to hear how the benchmarking goes!
by stoneman24 | 2025-10-25 21:37:24+00:00
“ how are you able to manage conflict between org builders and your technical vision?”

That for me, is the core of the issue. I have been in a few places where senior management (up to c level) still code and are critical parts of the project team.

The problem is who keeps them to schedules and co-ordination with the other people on the project. Hard to complain about team level issues if the failing person is also the boss of the technical staff.

Build a demo perhaps to illustrate the idea/vision but don’t code, focus on the high level management and direct the ICs to build out the production version.

Both roles (management and coding) are difficult, demanding positions to do well, deserving of respect and commitment.

Just my opinion after bad experiences.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-25 21:38:23+00:00
Wow, I seriously question the quality of any project where this is a consideration. I would also strongly recommend you hire some better devs and rewrite that project in another language with better concurrency features. Java (or anything on the JVM) would lead that list but plenty of languages would be suitable.

Also, sharing memory between processes is very very very slow compared to sharing memory between threads.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-25 21:39:07+00:00
> So gas hash higher reliability and is cheap for the times you need heat the most, whereas heat pumps might not work and are not cheap at the times you need them the most?

The major manufacturers have systems that will use the heat pump when the temperatures are not 'crazy', and kick in fossil at a certain point:

* https://www.trane.com/residential/en/resources/glossary/dual...

* https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/ca/homeowner-resource...

* https://www.lennox.com/residential/buyers-guide/guide-to-hva...

Depending on the cost of power and fossil fuels, you can program it to switch over once the COP becomes too low to justify running up kWh on your meter.

But whereas in the past heat pumps would have their COP drop around 40F/5C, modern systems can be fairly efficient at much lower temperature nowadays:

* https://neep.org/heating-electrification/ccashp-specificatio...

You have heat pumps running in Alaska:

* https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2024/09/01/energ...

* https://alaskarenewableenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10...
by gurjeet | 2025-10-25 21:39:58+00:00
Great job on the releasing the project; it definitely solves a need of being able to use declarative syntax for defining the relationships, and then customizing the layout which the regular layout generators can't do.

Project's Cargo.toml file says code is licensed under MIT license, but there's no license file in the repository, so Github doesn't show what the project is licensed under. Please add the license file so that people see it without having to dig through the code/configuration to determine that.
by YZF | 2025-10-25 21:40:29+00:00
Who are the past presidents/prime ministers of the Palestine that existed before Israel?

What was the capital of that state?

What was the currency?

What were the laws and/or constitution?

Who was the chief of police? Minister of defense? Minister of the Interior? Name one.

The standard criteria for statehood is: a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.

But if your starting point is that a state isn't an actual physical entity, and it can come into existence by sheer will power, retroactively, then sure, the state of Palestine has also existed 10,000 years ago in South America. Also there is no other example in human history of this other than "Palestine".

I would love to go into more depth here but it doesn't feel like you're interested. Your counter point that I'm not aware of the US veto powers and therefore my arguments are wrong or I'm uninformed isn't serious. I'm well aware of that.

You haven't answered my question of why Jordan and Egypt didn't recognize West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian state up to 1967.

EDIT: I'll also add that if your position is that the established international processes for recognizing statehood apply then the US veto preventing that statehood also applies. If the security council has not recognized Palestine as a state then the recognition of those 80% is meaningless. You can't have this both ways, if the international conventions/process don't apply then they also don't apply towards your goal. If they do apply, then Palestine is not a State.

Countries like Canada have explicitly said that their recognition is really about the future two state solution. It is a way of applying political pressure on Israel towards what they believe is the solution to the conflict. They are pretty clear about that state not magically coming into existence because of their "recognition" and their recognition is also conditional on many things which the Palestinians have so far failed to meet (various reforms, de-militarization etc.)
by LexiMax | 2025-10-25 21:41:06+00:00
Peaceful protest makes the massive assumption that there is a working press out there that is willing to be sympathetic. Instead, our press seems to be at best complicit and capitulation-minded, at worst collaborative.

For what it's worth, I don't think this is a new phenomenon. I remember quite clearly the way the press treated Occupy Wall Street, pretending that it was just a bunch of random loiterers who didn't have clear demands and goals.

In that case, the media simply made the editorial choice not to go out of their way to engage with the protesters, metaphorically covering their ears and then asking why they couldn't hear anything. Things have only gotten worse in the decades since.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-25 21:41:42+00:00
I don't really concern myself with consciousness or intelligence.

It seems to me as a mereological nihilist that meaning primitives are state changes.

The existence of syntatic meaning depends on state changes.

The existence of semantic meaning depends on syntax.

The existence of complex meaning generators like humans is dependent on less complex meaning in DNA and RNA.

We are meaning generators, we are the empirical generators of the most complex observed meaning and you can follow the causal chain all the way to state change.

I don't know if the universe has an ultimate meaning, but I suspect that if we don't wipe ourselves out we'd be part of the causual chain that creates and/or discovers it.

All the particles and information is all tied to the systems/universes entropy so there is a timer on how long we have, but in the meantime.

We emit meaning like stars emit photons. We are the complex meaning generators of the universe. Maybe there are others out there but we haven't met them yet, and until we do we should take precaution.
by RohanAdwankar | 2025-10-25 21:42:12+00:00
Thanks! I think that sounds interesting, to make sure I'm understanding your use case would these pop ups be for your own use or for other people? For example would you want to send a link to someone else on your team and then the link shows the diagram with popups and nesting? Or would it be sufficient to send over the .mmd files and then the other person can use the cli to open the web interface which supports the popups and nesting. I imagine I could add the latter one quickly but for the former I would either add an easy way for users to self serve like with ngrok or some cloud solution. Or alternatively I could add some way to export the diagram just as a standalone HTML file in which case that could be sent and support the popups and hovering without the person you're sending it to having to have the CLI installed.